Automate, Default, Scale: EHR Innovation for Child and Family Health

SPEAKER
Brian Jenssen, MD, MSHP
Assistant Professor, General Pediatrics
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

SESSION DESCRIPTION
This presentation explores how electronic health record (EHR)-linked systems and population health approaches can transform pediatric care through two case studies from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The first examines our Parent Tobacco Treatment Platform, an automated tobacco treatment program that screens parents during pediatric visits and connects them to evidence-based cessation resources, achieving a 38% treatment acceptance rate across >700,000 screenings. The second focuses on the Adolescent Health Questionnaire (AHQ), a pre-visit electronic screening tool that has improved identification of adolescent health risks across multiple domains while increasing clinical efficiency. Both initiatives demonstrate core implementation strategies: removing barriers through automation, increasing uptake with opt-out defaults, and achieving scale through population health approaches - ultimately showing how systematic innovation can address critical gaps in preventive care delivery.

EDUCATION GOALS

• Apply implementation science principles to design scalable health interventions.
• Identify how automation, opt-out defaults, and population health approaches can remove workflow barriers and increase treatment uptake in pediatric settings.

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