Jefferson Internal Medicine Associates (JIMA) Patient Triage Initiative

HOW MIGHT WE: Contact patients to triage them for in-person versus virtual visits and teach them to use telehealth quickly? How might we screen patients who are coming to the office for COVID-19 symptoms and exposures

Helping to Support CPC+ Initiative to Integrate Behavioral Health Within Primary Care: A Team-Based Approach to Improving Depression Management

AIM: The objective of this project is to increase the rate of documented successful treatment of depression for both new and established diagnoses of depression at Jefferson Internal Medicine Associates (JIMA) from 29% to 50% over 12 months.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/patientsafetyposters/1027/thumbnail.jp

Healthcare Quality Improvement and Education in Diabetes Management: Overcoming Clinical Inertia to Achieve Glycemic Goals

Part one of a three-part meeting series, sponsored by the American Diabetes Association through an unrestricted education grant from sanofi-aventis US. This meeting series is intended for practicing clinicians who manage patients with diabetes. Presentations: Wender: 0-4:19 Rhinehart: 4:20-38:29 Ziring: 38:30-54:40 Panel discussion: 55:00-1:16:12 Foster: 1:16:13-1:22:50 Furman: 1:22:54-1:32 Total time: 1 hour and 32 minutes (audio only-no slides

The accuracy of self-performed ultrasound tele-guidance image acquisition among laypeople

Background: The recent events of COVID-19 has expedited an evolving interest in furthering telemedicine technology to maximize the quality of remote healthcare provided to patients. Studies that assessed the quality of lung and cardiac tele-ultrasound images performed by patients under supervision to be of satisfactory quality for diagnosis and management.2,3 Objectives: We set out to investigate the practical feasibility, performance, and acceptability of tele-ultrasound performed under real-time supervision. Curricular Design: A consensus group of patients over 18 years of age and without any fever, skin rash, pregnancy, and incarceration. This is a single-center prospective trial performed at Jefferson Internal Medicine Associates (JIMA). Participants will have an instruction sheet on how to turn on the device. Through tele-communication participants will be instructed to use the Philips Lumify® ultrasound transducer. The participant will apply the transducer on their antecubital fossa. The image will be saved with no identifier. The quality of all images will be assessed by a certified Ultrasound physician. Applicability: Successful results at the conclusion of this study will demonstrate the feasibility for patients to self-obtain tele-ultrasound images under proper instruction that are both accurate and diagnostically helpful. This imaging technique can possibly empower patients to have a direct role in managing their health and provide clinicians valuable diagnostic information that would have otherwise been obtained at bedside or in the office. A new depth to telemedicine can help establish this arm of medicine as more independent, and thus reducing the need for patients to physically meet with a provider