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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Linking Inter-specialty Newborn and Contraception Care: In collaboration with University of Illinois at Chicago, UChicago investigator Dr. Sadia Haider has created a patient-centered approach to contraception care focused on improved outcomes for women and children. The LINCC Trial will be the first of its kind to leverage existing routine pediatric health care delivery to facilitate women’s access to their own health care.

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    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.