Case Studies and Program Profiles

Case Studies and Program Profiles Illustrate IPRO’s Organizational Competencies in:

  • Supporting state and federal government agency problem solving
  • Fostering consensus among varied stakeholders for quality improvement action
  • Evaluating and selecting the most appropriate methodologies to investigate clinical quality problems
  • Facilitating collaboration to enhance healthcare professionals’ sharing of best practices
  • Harnessing information technology to drive quality improvement
  • Building and applying quality measures
  • Collecting and analyzing large data sets
  • Creating tools to assess performance.

Case Studies provide in-depth perspectives of IPRO solutions at work.

School-Based Health Centers Program Performance Monitoring and Quality Improvement

Ensuring Compliance by School-Based Health Centers in New York State

Linking Social Determinants of Health to Hospital Utilization

Study of Kentucky Medicaid Managed Care enrollees links SDOH prevalence with increased hospital readmissions and high utilization

Saving NYS Hospitals 50,000 Hours by Digitizing Sepsis Data Collection

Automating processes to ease the burden on clinical staff 

Case Study: IPRO Pioneers Digitized Data Collection to Improve Sepsis Care

Helping New York State End the AIDS Epidemic

Contributing staff skills, knowledge, and expertise to meet the project’s evolving needs for more than three decades

Partnering with Providers to Improve Care/Health Outcomes

Antibiotic Stewardship in the Outpatient Dialysis Setting

Engaging NY providers in tracking and improving antibiotic prescribing patterns

End of Life Care Planning

Helping individuals make informed choices

Kidney Transplantation Referral

Implementing focused patient and staff education with peer mentoring facilitates patient activation and informed decision making

Nursing Home Clinical Composite Score Calculator

Nursing homes improve clinical composite scores through real-time data tracking

Person-centered Care and Self Management

The IPRO Center for Healthcare Consumer Engagement provides patients with the tools to improve their healthcare and become better healthcare consumers

Ensuring Medically Necessary and Appropriate Care

Care Transitions

Improving coordination of care, communication, and patient/caregiver knowledge by fostering community-based coalitions, teamwork and patient-centered care

Community Sepsis Awareness

Educating professionals across the continuum of care, collaborating with engaged partners, and employing community-based awareness strategies lead to successful outcomes

Chronic Kidney Disease Program

An innovative and cost-effect awareness and prevention program

Early Intervention Monitoring Program

Helps to ensure that eligible infants, toddlers and their families have access to timely, consistent and appropriate services and administrative processes

Independent Review Organization

IPRO’s independent external review program sets the standard for quality, objectivity and impartiality in the external appeals review process

Management of Anticoagulation in the Peri-procedural Period

Free clinical decision support application guides clinicians during surgery

Opioid-Adverse Drug Event Counseling

A community pharmacy intervention

Pain Management and Opioid Safety During Care Transitions

IPRO-developed tool helps reduce risk of adverse events related to high risk medications

Promoting Value-Driven Healthcare

Digital Health Data Solutions Tool Suite

Collecting, validating, and reporting kidney transplant data

IPRO’s Comprehensive Data-driven Approaches

Deploying data-driven approaches helps inform, improve and sustain quality outcomes

IPRO Helps Reduce Sepsis Deaths

Evidence based strategies save lives in New York

IPRO’s Performance Measurement Expertise

Developing and testing new pediatric measures for front line care

Provider Network Data System

Enables NYS to assess and remediate network access problems