Office of Population Health (OPH)

The Clnical Innovation Center partners with the Office of Population Health to: 

  1. Spread innovative concepts and best practices for population-based care delivery within and outside of OPH  

  2. Foster new partnerships between OPH and other services and organizations within UCSF 

  3. Develop expertise within OPH in process redesign, support integration of new care models and technologies and the use of digital and population health tools to optimize workflows 

Some of the ways in which we provide expertise and support: 

  • Develop and or implement novel population health models, use cases of current technologies or EMR tools either within UCSF, or across population health sciences as a whole 
  • Opportunities to automate and use data to improve efficiency of operational infrastructure 
  • Improvement/enhancements of standard workflows (tests of change) 
  • Implementation of a new idea/workflow for which there is limited evidence 
  • Expansion of services to new departments or service lines 

 

Mexican Physician Pilot Program 

The Clinical Innovation Center is serving in the role of Externship Partner/Academic Sponsor with a group of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in California (Salinas, Hollister, Tulare, Los Angeles) who are participating in California’s Assembly Bill 1045, Mexican Physician Pilot Program.

This program permits Mexican trained physicians to spend up to 3 years practicing in physician-shortage areas in California. As part of this program, an independent academic medical center (UCSF) agrees to provide thorough secondary reviews of a random sample of outpatient visits with these physicians. In addition,  UCSF also provides access to continuing medical education opportunities such as Grand Rounds and UCSF CME courses.

Internal medicine and family medicine physicians will review adult visits, pediatric and family medicine physicians will review pediatric visits, and OB-GYN physicians will review OB-GYN visits.

Steps involved with the secondary review performed by UCSF physicians include:

  1.  Assessing the FQHC electronic health record
  2. Complete a review of the medical encounter (office visit) using the same peer review template as the FQHC primary reviewer and provide constructive criticism around  patient care and clinical documentation
  3. Compare the UCSF secondary review with the primary review to highlight areas of discordance in the reviews for discussion with the FQHC 

To support the program’s expansion, USCF is in the process of creating a well-defined and engaging QA seminar series led by UCSF physicians for each specialty of internal medicine, family medicine, OB-GYN, and pediatrics. Seminars will be held at UCSF and include breakouts by specialty reviewing quality assurance/findings from peer review and CME clinical topics.