Mayo Clinic receives three multimillion-dollar innovation awards

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic and its collaborators have been awarded nearly $60 million from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to improve health care delivery. The grants will improve critical care for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in intensive care units, improve care and outcomes for patients who have depression and diabetes or cardiovascular disease, and work with patients with chronic conditions and their families to better engage them in medical decisions.

“We’re grateful that CMMI has recognized the commitment of our physicians, scientists and collaborators to drive patient-centered, high-value care,” says John Noseworthy, M.D., president and CEO of Mayo Clinic. “Our commitment to innovation and patient-centered, high-value care will continue regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the Affordable Care Act or how health care reform evolves politically. What will remain constant is our unfailing focus on meeting the needs of patients.”

The Health Care Innovation Awards fund up to $1 billion in grants to applicants who will implement compelling new ideas to deliver better health, improved care and lower costs to people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program, particularly those with the highest health care needs.

“These grants provide the funding needed to transform the way patients in the United States experience health care,” says Veronique Roger, M.D., M.P.H., director of Mayo Clinic’s Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, which rigorously studies, validates and implements innovative health care delivery models. “At the end of the day, health care is about treating patients in a manner that delivers optimal outcomes and quality of life in the most efficient way possible.”

Project I: Patient-centric electronic environment for improving acute care performance
Role: Leader
Mayo Clinic Lead Investigators: Ognjen Gajic, M.D.; Brian Pickering, M.B., B.Ch.
Geographic Reach: Minnesota, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma
Funding Amount: $16,035,264
Estimated Three-Year Savings for Government Programs: $81,345,987

Summary: Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with US Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group and Philips Research North America, is receiving an award to improve critical care performance for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in intensive care units (ICUs). Data show that 27% of such Medicare beneficiaries face preventable treatment errors due to information overload among ICU providers. Mayo Clinic’s model will enhance effective use of data using a Cloud-based system that combines a centralized data repository with electronic surveillance and quality measurement of care responses. As a result, Mayo expects to reduce ICU complications and costs.

Over a three-year period, Mayo Clinic will train 1,440 existing ICU caregivers in four diverse hospital systems to effectively use new health information technologies to manage ICU patient care.

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