RFA Innovation Awards
Capturing video “selfies” of pediatric patients with sickle cell disease to enhance medication adherence, education and engagement.
Use of validated statistical models on Duke data to predict the rate of decompensation for patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) while also creating a novel model of team-based care, Population Rounding TM.
The 21st Century Six Minute Walk aims to modernize under-utilized traditional office- based performance tests by providing COPD and CHF patients with wearables that transmit the patients’ daily step count passively to the EHR and creating patient- specific alerts for early warning signs.
Combine tele-monitoring, medication management, and self-management support to help improve diabetes control for Duke Primary Care patients with “persistent poorly-controlled diabetes mellitus” of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) >8.5%.
Performing PHQ2 and subsequent PHQ9 on all patients that are having an annual visit or are in the primary care clinic for a post-hospital discharge visit. Based on the PHQ9 score, patients are connected to care management and virtually rounded on by a med/psych attending.
Enhance the communication between palliative care and ICU attendings in order to more efficiently decide which patients would benefit most from palliative care.
Evaluate the perceived baseline and post-intervention perception of teamwork, communication, and the utility of operative checklists.
Novel use of telemedicine to facilitate weekly post-discharge care conferences between hospital and skilled nursing facility provider teams to systematically review patients, improve transitional care and reduce readmissions.
Provide patient-centered home transplant (PCHT) to improve patient safety, clinical efficacy, and value for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT) patients.
