Coverys Community Healthcare Foundation Funds Innovative Projects to Improve Patient Safety
Diagnostic inaccuracy is an issue that we take very seriously at Coverys.
Our data suggests that diagnosis-related events are the single largest common root cause of medical professional liability claims. On a national scale,
it has been estimated that 10-20% of all diagnoses are inaccurate.
In 2018, Coverys Community Healthcare Foundation committed $3 million to fund development of new approaches for faster, more accurate patient diagnoses. The Foundation focused on innovative projects that utilize fresh perspectives, data-driven insights, and new ways of thinking about diagnosis. Close attention was paid to projects with significant potential to help improve outcomes for patients and their families.
After an overwhelming response to our request for proposals, the Foundation awarded grant funding to the following organizations and projects:
The Human Diagnosis Project
Large-scale improvement in diagnostic reasoning
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Video-oculography-based emergency room tele-consults to improve diagnostic outcomes — The V.E.R.T.I.G.O. Study
Medstar Health Research Institute
Improving diagnostic accuracy for Hepatitis C with a validated teach/improve model
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Development and testing of a new framework to improve diagnostic reasoning and accuracy in medical and health professionals
Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine
Exploring and addressing diagnostic error disparities related to cognitive reasoning pitfalls
Strategic Radiology LLC
Improving diagnostic accuracy through improved communication to patients with incidental findings on ED medical imaging studies
University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences
Identifying women at high risk of ovarian cancer
VisualDx
Proposal to improve the diagnosis of cellulitis
Washington University School of Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Interventional Radiology Section
Closing the loop for radiology follow-up recommendations
The majority of these projects have concluded and we are looking forward to releasing results of the project work to influence improved diagnostic accuracy and offer the opportunity to incorporate these efforts in care delivery in hospitals and healthcare organizations, in the educational curriculum of provider education, and in practice workflow.
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