Advance Care Planning (ACP) should be a priority for all individuals, wherever one is in their life’s journey. Simple tasks like identifying someone to speak on your behalf should a catastrophic, irreversible medical condition occur is central to delivering quality, patient-centered care. But this is just the beginning.
In response to the rapid change in health system operations, HDSI launched a COVID-19 Innovation Challenge in March 2020. Over 180 submissions were received in two months with over 40% coming from frontline health system staff and the remaining ones from trainees, faculty and the community.
Hospital operations is a complex, dynamic process involving many moving parts within a specific spatial configuration. Agent-based modeling is a simulation method that can be used to visualize how a hospital handles its patient flow and aid in optimizing its processes, or project the impact of future expansion.
UChicago Medicine is the first hospital in the world to implement a leading-edge predictive algorithm to prevent cardiac arrest in hospitalized patients. eCart, a sophisticated algorithm developed at UChicago Medicine, scores subtle changes in clinical status to predict a cardiac event before it happens.
ProjectsKathryn Reget2022-02-24T14:21:53-06:00
