About HDSI
Our Mission
At HDSI, we are connecting scholars and leaders across University of Chicago Medicine and beyond to catalyze innovation and discovery, transforming healthcare delivery to enable perfect care.
“What patients want is a deep relationship with a healer… this is the foundation upon which we need to build healthcare.”
—Dr. Paul Grundy
Catalyst for Change
Findings in Everyday Care
Modern-day healthcare exhibits tremendous variations, across the country, across the continuum of care and within each healthcare organization. Providers make changes in how they care for patients, sometimes on a daily basis. Only recently do researchers have the ability to apply analytic methods for operational quality improvements so that the healthcare industry can determine if the changes actually improve care.
In 2016 the Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and Innovation (HDSI) was established with the leadership support of Clinical Excellence at UChicago Medicine. The rationale for the Center was bring together teams that apply rigorous science to address the most pressing challenges in healthcare delivery. The Center’s goal is to strengthen the quality, safety, value and patient experience of healthcare locally, and spread these real-world innovations to other healthcare organizations nationally and globally.
The Center
Who We Are
HDSI is a research center fully embedded in the UChicago Medicine health system. HDSI is uniquely positioned to gather ideas from the front lines of care delivery and draw on resources from across the University of Chicago.
HDSI brings together staff, trainees, leaders and faculty from across the UChicago campus, including:
- Applied clinical informatics
- Business operations
- Data science
- Dissemination and implementation science
- Economics
- Health care policy
- Health services and outcomes research
- Humanities
- Information technology
- Knowledge synthesis
- Nursing
- Patient care coordination
- Supply Chain
- Population health
- Qualitative research
- Simulation
- Social and behavioral science
Together, the team seeks to discover new ways to improve the quality, safety and outcomes throughout the patient’s healthcare journey. Our aim is to transform the culture of innovation and collaboration to inspire new perspectives to maximize impact from idea iteration through implementation. The Center provides research funding, training, logistical support for embedded projects, and opportunities for networking and impact.
Ways That We Help
So how do we transform healthcare delivery?
The Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and Innovation is proud to offer the following services and grants to promote the education and awareness of Healthcare Delivery Science. Our mission is to pave the way to perfect care and we provide guidance and assistance to those who share our passion.
Services
Assistance in identifying key clinical applications of predictive analytics and support the development, deployment and evaluation of such initiatives at UChicago Medicine.
A streamlined process for UChicago Medicine to learn about new ideas and partnership opportunities to improve clinical practice, patient experience and workflow.
Helps to educate investigators during the project planning process, ensuring researchers and hospital staff understand the impact on health system operations and facilitating successful implementation of their project.
QI Determination, a formal review process designed to protect our patients, investigators, and the institution, is required for all quality improvement projects that will be shared outside of UChicago Medicine.
Grants
Support & Guidance
Center Staff
Senior Advisor, HDSI
Leader in public policy focused on improving the quality, safety, and experience of care
Director, HDSI
Oversees the implementation of the Center’s key start-up initiatives.
Senior Project Manager, HDSI
Designs, develops, and manages HDSI initiatives in support of research to improve healthcare delivery at UCM.
Center Coordinator, HDSI
Experienced coordinator who oversees the Center's operations and orchestrates its programming.
Senior Research Analyst with CHeSS and Biostatistician
Biostatistician who provides mentorship and expertise to HDSI projects and scholars.
