Agile Implementation Training
Agile Implementation — a proven evidence-based change methodology designed specifically to improve healthcare. Multiple sessions are available and provided by the Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science. Registration and travel are covered for GLPTN participants. CME/CE credits available.
Session Dates: June 25-27, July 30-August 1
Events
Our Network Partners and our Support & Alignment Network (SAN) offer conferences, webinars and elearning opportunities.
Clinician's Perspective
I'm very excited to be part of GLPTN and witness firsthand some of the exciting changes that are taking place in our healthcare system to help promote high quality care. I hope to see the tools of implementation science put to the test to help rapidly disseminate meaningful improvements to healthcare processes and ultimately to patients' lives.
News
2017 Million Hearts Hypertension Control Challenge
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Dear Colleague: Today, health systems and professionals are equipped with the knowledge and technology to ...
3 Robust Approaches to Dementia Care
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
3 Robust Approaches to Dementia Care Programs integrate services in the hospital and out, and among ...
A Population Health Approach to Dementia
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
A Population Health Approach to Dementia by Catherine A. Alder, JD, Bharath B. Reddy Bynagari and Malaz ...
News
IU Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science COO honored
Monday, November 21, 2016
INDIANAPOLIS — Nadia Nguyen Adams, MHA, is on a mission to facilitate the compression of the 17-year timeline it typically takes for a medical discovery to move from the laboratory to the real world, where it can impact patient care. To accomplish this mission she is helping partner innovative researchers with healthcare systems, matchmaking evidence-based […]
Implementation science looks to eHealth technology to enhance doctor-patient relationship
Thursday, November 17, 2016
INDIANAPOLIS — New and developing eHealth technologies have the potential to improve the patient-provider connection and patient-centered health care. An opinion piece authored by three physicians looks to rehabilitation medicine, with its long history of use of technology, as a model for positive ways to incorporate technology to enhance the doctor-physician relationship across the spectrum of […]
New low cost workforce is effective in decreasing depression burden in primary care
Thursday, November 3, 2016
INDIANAPOLIS — The Aging Brain Care Medical Home, a novel brain-focused population health management program implemented in the homes of older adults, lowered depression severity by more than 50 percent over six months according to a new study from the Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University Center for Aging Research, IU Center for Health Innovation and Implementation […]
Young African-American adults are less susceptible to delirium in ICU than Caucasians
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
INDIANAPOLIS — The first study to evaluate the relationship between race and intensive care unit delirium has found that African-American ICU patients age 18 to 50 are less susceptible to delirium than similarly aged Caucasians or than either African-American or Caucasian ICU patients age 50 or older. Read more here.
UK Receives $4.6 Million in Funding as Part of National Quality Health Initiative
Monday, June 13, 2016
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 13, 2016) — The University of Kentucky is partnering with the Indiana University School of Medicine in a $46 million grant-funded initiative with the aim of improving healthcare while lowering costs. Read more here.
Getting the Story Just Right for GLPTN, Healthcare Change Experts
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
When Great Lakes Practice Transformation Network (GLPTN) came to us during the week before Christmas last year, the ink was barely dry on its 4-year $46.4 million grant from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Read the full article here.
The Cost of Care: Building a learning healthcare system to meet the Triple Aim
Friday, May 13, 2016
In the United States, 400,000 deaths every year are related to unintentional harm in the healthcare system. The cost of this unintended harm is estimated to be in excess of $17 billion every year. Read the full article here.
IU Center for Aging Research founding director honored by American Geriatrics Society
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
INDIANAPOLIS — Christopher Callahan, M.D., the founding director of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research, a Regenstrief Institute investigator and the Cornelius and Yvonne Pettinga Professor of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, has been named the 2016 recipient of the American Geriatrics Society’s prestigious Edward Henderson Award. Read press release here.
Managing Mental Health: The Demands of Dementia
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
If Dr Malaz Boustani were tasked with grading dementia care he’d dole out an “F” for the United States. For him, the battle to improve upon this failing report card is personal. “My father and mother-in-law have suffered from dementia and are still suffering,” he said, “and my wife is at a high risk.” Read more […]
Strategies and milestones for Alzheimer’s patient and caregiver support outlined
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
INDIANAPOLIS — The National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA) was signed into law in 2011. Over the past five years milestones have been identified to meet the plan’s biomedical research goal. However, similar milestones have not been created for the goals on patient care and caregiver support. Read press release here.
