Under the leadership of Duke Health Chief Quality Officer/Chief Medical Officer Richard Shannon, MD, Duke University Health System is one of 42 health systems chosen to participate in the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Health Systems Implementation Initiative (HSII) in 2023. As a member of this group, DUHS can compete for specific awards on topics relevant to PCORI. Duke’s Mike Smith, MD (Pediatric Infectious Diseases) and Tom LeBlanc, MD (Medicine) recently attended the PCORI HSII Learning Network Meeting in Washington, D.C. During the meeting’s second day, which was focused on specific projects. Dr. Smith, Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Duke, joined the discussion with 20 other sites participating in the Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing for Children with Acute Respiratory Tract Infections. This project was funded in January of this year and is currently in the pre-implementation phase. Dr. LeBlanc, who is Chief Patient Experience and Safety Officer for the Duke Cancer Institute and Director of Outcomes Research in the Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy will serve as principal investigator for Duke’s second HSII implementation project, Monitoring Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes During Cancer Treatment, which was awarded last month.
