The first phase of HSII includes Capacity Building Projects which supports HSII participants to undertake activities that enhance their ability to conduct successful implementation of evidence and program evaluation under HSII. UPMC was awarded this funding in August 2023. Read more about UPMC’s participation in HSII.


Funded by:

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI®) 

Funding Amount:

$498,127

Project Duration:

18 months (08/01/2023-01/31/2025)

Project Collaborators:

UPMC Health Equity Committee 

Wolff Center at UPMC 

UPMC Clinical Analytics 

UPMC Quality Improvement 

UPMC Department of Health Economics 

Research Location:

UPMC

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.   

Health Care Challenge

Successful implementation of evidence-based practice change requires thorough understanding of contextual factors and careful planning.

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.  

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