Background
The Capacity Building project is the first phase of UPMC’s participation in PCORI HSII to improve organizational preparedness for implementing and evaluating new, evidence-based practices with a health equity lens. See our PCORI® initiative description and list of Health Systems Implementation Initiative Participants for more details.
PCORI HSII participants could apply for funding to support health system efforts to prepare for HSII Implementation Projects. Through this funding, UPMC aims to assess organizational preparedness for implementing and evaluating evidence-based practices with a health equity approach.
Healthcare Challenge
Implementing evidence-based practices in health systems while ensuring health equity can be a complex endeavor. Understanding contextual factors and considerations of the unique challenges faced by health systems are integral to improving uptake of evidence-based practice change.
Goals
UPMC is undertaking two activities that will prepare and support UPMC’s system-wide clinical and operational teams to effectively implement and evaluate practice change efforts to be awarded under HSII. First, UPMC is conducting an organizational readiness assessment to develop an agile implementation template that incorporates promising methods and implementation strategies. Second, UPMC is inventorying existing data elements and proposing data infrastructure changes to improve availability/usability of key data elements in implementation and evaluation projects.
This project was funded through the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute® (PCORI®) award HSII_UPMC_CB-PS1. The views, statements, and opinions presented in this webpage are solely the responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of PCORI®.