Health System Transformation

Our “triple aim” research simultaneously pursues three goals: improving health care and health outcomes while lowering costs.

We seek to remedy health system failures such as:

inadequate systemic support for patient self-management
inoperable electronic health records
communication breakdowns as patients move across health care systems
poorly integrated medical and behavioral health teams
health care-associated infections, addiction to prescription opioids and other unintended harm due to over- or undertreatment

To accomplish this, our department’s Primary Care Research Institute translates comparative, effective research into practice for clinicians and and their patients.

We collaborate with translational researchers across UB, encourage interprofessional education and convert findings into practice.

Research Projects

Doctors Across New York Ambulatory Care Training Program

7/9/18

This training program aims to increase resident and medical student training (time spent and number of trainees) in eleven freestanding ambulatory care sites in the Western New York region.

Erie County NY Opioid Overdose Outreach Enhancement Program

7/9/18

This multi-disciplinary collaborative initiative of the Erie County Opiate Epidemic Task Force augments the Erie County Department of Health’s efforts to: actively engage individuals with opioid misuse and accelerate the systematic analysis of real-time law enforcement and EMS calls for service, including data on naloxone administration, individual response, location by zip code, and the product that caused the overdose.

Primary Care Training and Enhancement

7/9/18

The project aims to strengthen the Primary Care Workforce by supporting enhanced interprofessional education (IPE) models for future primary care providers in underserved areas of the region, state, and nation.

UB Clinical Scholar Program in Implementation Science to Achieve Triple Aims

7/9/18

The UB Faculty Scholar Program in Implementation Science is an institutional research career development (K12) program that supports mentored research and career development for faculty scholars in dissemination and implementation (D&I) research to address the complex process of bridging research and practice in real-world settings.

Research Centers/Partners

Upstate New York Practice Based Research Network

9/18/18

Director: Ranjit Singh, MB BChir, MBA (Interim)

Investigates questions related to community-based primary care practice. Aims to improve patient care by translating research into practice and by involving practices in research.

Patient Safety Research Center

10/11/17

Director: Ranjit Singh, MB BChir, MBA

Works to reduce the national burden of medical errors through educational and research programs using collaborative, multidisciplinary team-based safety measurement and enhancement.