Can we enable primary care practices to improve their workflows, use of technology, and patient care, by creating a collaborative community that creates and shares solutions to common problems?
See OHSU Colleagues
The Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) conducts systematic reviews of health care topics for federal and state agencies, professional associations, and foundations. ohsu 
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. As 1 of 12 agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, AHRQ supports research that helps people make more informed decisions and improves the quality of health care services. about
PeaceHealth is a not-for-profit health care system with medical centers, critical access hospitals, medical group clinics and laboratories located in Alaska, Washington and Oregon. about
Samaritan was born of a common mission to provide exemplary health care and keep decision-making local, Lebanon’s Mid-Valley Healthcare and Corvallis’ Samaritan, Inc. merged in 1997 to form the not-for-profit Samaritan Health Services (SHS). about
Communities
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has funded grants to establish Centers for Primary Care Practice-Based Research and Learning to stimulate innovation in how to improve the delivery and organization of primary care and to accelerate quality improvement in real world primary care practices. webpage
The Public Health Practice‐Based Research Networks (PBRN) is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the development of research networks studying the comparative effectiveness, efficiency and equity of public health strategies in real-world practice settings. webpage
AHRQ invites primary care networks to register with its PBRN Resource Center for web-based seminars and technical assistance in research methodology, organization and development. registry portal
ORPRN is a statewide network of primary care clinicians, community partners, and academicians dedicated to studying the delivery of health care to rural residents and to reducing rural health disparities. website pdf
The mission of the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement (COPI) is to create, integrate and transfer knowledge to improve the quality, safety and performance of industrial, service, governmental, health care, educational, social and other organizations. webpage
Meta-network Learning and Research Center (Meta-LARC) consisting of Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network (ORPRN). Iowa Research Network (IRENE). State Networks of Colorado Ambulatory Practices and Partners (SNoCAP). Safety Net West PBRN (SNW). Quebec Practice Based Research Network (QPBRN). Wisconsin Research and Education Network (WREN).
Research
Shared Decision Making in Primary Care seeks to identify best practice approaches to implementing DVD Decision Aids in rural primary care practices with the objective of improving shared medical decision making. pdf
The AHRQ Health Information Toolkit is designed for people and organizations interested or involved in the planning, design, implementation, and use of health IT in ambulatory care. webpage
Evaluation of the Utility of a Workflow Assessment of a Health Information Technology (HIT) Toolkit asks if it will provide practices with the effective means to evaluate workflow during many types of HIT implementation such as creating disease registries, collecting quality measures, using patient portals, and implementing a new EHR.
Cold Water Boot Camp: Knowledge Translation –
from the Lab to the Living room. Dr. Giesbrecht participated in the creation of a true-life educational project regarding survival in cold water. Volunteer students from across Canada and the US combined real life exposure to cold water and classroom instruction. pdf pubmed
Related
These federated wiki sites are loosely related to community of practice themes in the work above. We've used drag-and-drop references to assemble this list.
Four distinct concerns surface when designing federated wiki based information communities. We identify each and suggest forces that must be resolved before creative collaboration will take place.
To bring together in a dynamic and collaborative environment the leaders in social impact, business, and venture capital investment innovation. website details
We explore how we might use a prototype "Wiki Laboratory" tool to create some academic grade results. Our first experiment is a sharing-centric tool for Exploratory Parsing semi-structured texts with a particular interest in Wikipedia dump files.
Summary of land, water and energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and ecosystem services. Cotton, Inc. 2009. Retrieved July, 2012. pdf
We're interested in how federated wiki can contribute to quantified reflection upon oneself. We hope to find many ways to integrate the two. For now we will focus on calculations.
This site allows you to see, apply, revise and add to best practice patterns in design of hospital patient environments.