CACHE – Duke AI Health

Eat Well “Prescription Produce” Study Presents Initial Findings at SGIM

Dr. Connor Drake, Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, represented a team of researchers from Duke Health, Duke Department of Population Health Sciences, and CACHE as he presented the initial findings the Eat Well trial at the May 2025 annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) in Hollywood, Florida. Eat Well is a large-scale randomized controlled trial that was conducted at Duke to test the impact of a program of “prescription produce” on cardiometabolic outcomes. The produce prescription reduces cost barriers to healthy eating and was offered to Duke patients with elevated HbA1c levels who were at risk for food insecurity. Food insecurity is a major obstacle to improve health outcomes and equity and the findings suggest that there are key implementation factors that influence the impact of these programs in real-world care settings. LEARN MORE

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Dr. Michael Pignone to Lead Duke CACHE

Duke AI Health welcomes Michael Pignone, MD, MPH, as he takes the helm of the Duke Collaborative to Advance Health Equity (CACHE) effective October 15, 2024. Currently the Rebecca and John Kirkland Distinguished Professor of Medicine and vice chair of Quality and Innovation in the Duke Department of Medicine, Dr. Pignone also serves as the faculty director for Primary Care Transformation and Innovation within the Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Director for Cancer Screening Equity at the Duke Cancer Institute.

“I am delighted to see Dr. Pignone move into this role,” says Richard Shannon, MD, founding director of CACHE and Chief Quality Officer & Chief Medical Officer for Duke Health. “The energy he brings to this work and the breadth of his experience, spanning clinical care, research, policy, and population health, make him an ideal choice to build upon our early successes with this initiative and grow the community partnerships vital to our work.”

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PCORI HSII Capacity Building Launches

Duke University Health System has received a new capacity-building contract with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). This contract, as part of PCORI’s Health Systems Implementation Initiative, will be used to support preparation for implementation projects that will advance the adoption of evidence-based practice within healthcare delivery settings. The Duke team, led by Rick Shannon, MD, includes co-investigators Armando Bedoya, MD; Nrupen Bhavsar, PhD; Ben Goldstein, PhD; and Michelle Lyn, MBA, MHA; and is supported by Duke AI Health.

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Duke Health Selected to Help Move Health Research Into Clinical Practice

Duke University Health System has been selected by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), an independent, nonprofit research organization, to participate in a new effort to close the gap between high-quality medical research and implementation of that evidence to improve patient outcomes.

The PCORI project will support ongoing efforts at Duke centered on work begun through the Duke Quality System. Led by Richard P. Shannon, M.D, Duke Health senior vice president and chief quality officer, the Duke Quality System aims to provide “perfect patient care,” a concept that not only includes providing timely, evidence-based patient care, but also ensuring that the care is done right the first time, without defects, waste, or inequity.

Shannon, who also serves as chief medical officer for Duke Health, most recently has led the development of the Duke Collaborative to Advance Health Equity (CACHE), a community-driven program that extends the quality system model by harnessing data science to find and eliminate racial disparities in health care.

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