Healthcare Innovation January 22, 2025
Partnership for Policy Implementation aids the American Academy of Pediatrics by improving the quality of clinical guidelines
A group of informaticians has been helping the American Academy of Pediatrics improve the quality of clinical guidelines and policies that standardize care delivery. Regenstrief Institute Research Scientist Randall Grout, M.D., M.S., and Wake Forest’s Stephen Downs, M.D., M.S., recently sat down with Healthcare Innovation to explain how the Partnership for Policy Implementation (PPI) works to eliminate ambiguity in clinical recommendations, which in turn eases the implementation of guideline recommendations by clinicians and EHR developers.
In addition to his role at Regenstrief, Grout is also the chief health informatics officer at Eskenazi Health and an assistant professor of pediatrics...