Case Studies
A Bipolar Learning Health Network: An innovation whose time has come
The system of care for people with bipolar disorder “…is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.” (Attribution disputed: Paul Batalden or Arthur Jones). Those results are not good enough. We propose to improve results for people with bipolar disorder by disrupting the current care system with a Learning Health Network.
Reliable individualized monitoring improves cholesterol control in kidney transplant recipients (NLM)
The proportion of visits in which cholesterol monitoring was completed when indicated improved from 80% to 98% within 8 months and was sustained for more than 1 year. The number of patients with controlled LDL (<130 mg/dL, 3.3 mmol/L) improved from 44 (71%) of 62 at the start of our project to 58 (94%) of 62 (P = .002) at an average follow-up of 24 months.
