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Real-time support at the point of care matters.
A #DenverHealthMedical
study evaluated an EHR-embedded chat tool that helps clinicians deliver addiction care across general medical settings. bit.ly/4jLxhN2
January 12, 2026 at 7:52 PM
As flu strains health systems, vaccination data matters.
#DenverHealth –led research compared self-reported vaccination status with health records across Colorado systems, showing where self-report performs well and where nuance matters.

#PublicHealth #Vaccines
January 8, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Care navigation grounded in rapport and practical support can improve engagement after acute care. A #DenverHealth-led study found a care-navigation intervention for patients with methamphetamine use disorder improved engagement after emergency&hospital encounters. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41379402/
January 7, 2026 at 4:49 PM
🔍 What makes every hand unique? Sean Higinbotham, PhD, explains statistical shape modeling using CT-based 3D imaging to map bone structure. Supported by #DenverHealth
Pilot Study Grant Program, advances personalized surgical care. bit.ly/4q3T7xq
January 7, 2026 at 1:04 AM
How does BMI affect risk for patients with HFpEF?
A new PCORNet study coauthored by
#denverhealth helps clarify. Higher BMI was linked with worse cardiac structure and more HF hospitalizations. Underweight adults had the highest risk of death.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
💡A new paper from @DenverHealthMed shows learning health system methods improving everyday clinical work. A workflow in the ED increased in-shift note completion from 32% to 48 %, supported strong staff satisfaction, and reduced after-hours documentation. bit.ly/43KM5Vk
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🦵 A new study with @DenverHealthMed researchers tracked recovery after lower-extremity fracture surgery in 292 patients. Stats on image >>
Patients with unplanned reoperations recovered more slowly. Read the study: bit.ly/4if61Wq
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🩺 Science is still building the long-term view of COVID-19 recovery. A new study including @DenverHealthMed researchers followed 10k hospitalized patients in CO and UT. Summary on pic, read the study: bit.ly/3LYK1Ts
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🩺 New study defines 16 national competencies for trauma-informed care in emergency medicine—helping clinicians recognize, respond to, and reduce the impact of trauma in every patient encounter.

📘 J Grad Med Educ
🔗 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41103982/

#DenverHealthResearch #TraumaInformedCare
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
👶 How can social support change outcomes for moms and babies?

@DenverHealthMed
neonatologist Meg Turner, MD, MPH shares how our NICU team is part of the
@NIH
-funded NICU LIFTS study, connecting families to social-determinant resources that improve care.
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👉 NICU LIFTS: Studying how social support shapes outcomes for moms and babies
YouTube video by Denver Health
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November 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🫁 How do we close gaps in latent tuberculosis prevention for non–U.S.-born patients?

A new Open Forum Infectious Diseases study found many at-risk patients in community clinics aren’t being tested or offered treatment.

Denver Health was one of four CDC-supported sites.
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
⚖️ What happens when criminal penalties increases and treatment doesn’t?

@DenverHealthMed researchers found that Colorado’s fentanyl law didn’t change initiation or retention in medications for opioid use disorder.

bit.ly/4oVOnZX
November 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
💊 Denver Health researchers tested Take 5, an intervention promoting five-day antibiotic courses for common infections at two urgent-care sites.
✅ 5-day prescriptions rose without higher return visits or hospitalizations.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41018710/
#AntibioticStewardship
October 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Accurately identifying meth use in EHRs is harder than it sounds—and getting it right matters for care, surveillance & recovery.

Denver Health researchers tested 8 methods to find which best capture real use, turning complex data into insight that improves care.
October 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
💬 Connection can be as powerful as medicine.

Denver Health researchers found that Latino(a) community health workers leading a culturally tailored diabetes prevention program helped 30% of participants achieve meaningful weight loss.

#LearningHealthSystem #DenverHealthResearch
October 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
🧠❤️ As a learning health system, Denver Health continually reevaluates practices to improve care for patients.

A new @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Am. Jrnl of Cardiology meta-analysis co-authored by Brian Stauffer, MD, found underrepresentation of older adults, women & racial/ethnic minority groups.
October 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Research happening in the real world, right in primary care.”

Justin Upwell, LPC, LAC, talks about Denver Health’s role in the BEET study—bringing behavioral health research out of the lab and into community clinics.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/shorts/gxJZo...

#LearningHealthSystem #DenverHealth
Research happening in the real world—right in primary care | Denver Health
YouTube video by Denver Health
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October 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
🦴 New study from
Denver Health Orthopedic Trauma team, co-authored by Joshua Parry, M.D., in Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma.

For patients under 65 with femoral neck fractures, hip replacement was linked to fewer complications and reoperations than fixation. #ClinicalResearch #DenverHealthResearch
September 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
👏 Meet
@DenverHealthMed
's Grant Accounting Team!

Their behind-the-scenes work keeps research funding flowing so patients get access to the newest and best-informed care.

🎥 Watch their “why”: youtube.com/shorts/ffyyi...
#DenverHealthResearch #LearningHealthSystem
Grant Accounting Team | Denver Health Office of Research: Learning Health System Series
YouTube video by Denver Health
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September 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
🧠 Research isn’t finished until it’s shared.
📣Denver Health's Office of Research highlighted how new channels & strategic comms amplify impact, build trust, and make our #LearningHealthSystem visible far beyond our walls.
#TrustInScience
September 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Turning research into better care—faster.
PaTH’s new LHS report shows how 7 systems moved from Discovery, Prioritization, Implementation to form learning communities around:

🩺 Hypertension
🦴 Back pain
👵 Frailty

From Denver Health Medical Read the study: bit.ly/41WAKR5
September 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Covid rates are rising again. Who’s most at risk for Long Covid? Denver Health published a study in @jama.com Network Open that analyzed 12K+ adults in a NIH cohort:

The findings:
Women > men
Risks shaped by age, pregnancy, menopause

Read: bit.ly/3JSda1v
#LongCOVID #InfectiousDisease
August 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Back-to-school in CO means refocusing on systems that support student health. Honora Burnett, MD, co-authored a study on a virtual care model linking school nurses to
#DenverHealth providers—900+ visits since 2021.🔗 bit.ly/3IVWF49

#VirtualCare #SchoolHealth
July 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A yes/and story.
Denver Health’s Dale Terasaki, M.D., is leading a study on alcohol use after hospitalization—making it easier for patients to stay in recovery.
He’s also shaping national care standards in addiction medicine. 🎥 youtube.com/shorts/a86-H...

📄 Read: journals.lww.com/journaladdic...
Tracking recovery after hospitalization: Dale Terasaki, M.D., on alcohol use disorder
YouTube video by Denver Health
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July 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Elamipretide shows promise for treating mitochondrial dysfunction. Denver Health's Brian Stauffer, MD, co-authored a new review outlining its mechanisms and therapeutic potential across multiple organ systems. Read it here: bit.ly/4eSZcIj
Contemporary insights into elamipretide's mitochondrial mechanism of action and therapeutic effects - PubMed
Mitochondria are cellular hubs integral for metabolism, signaling, and survival. Mitochondrial dysfunction is centrally involved in the aging process and an expansive array of disease states. Elamipre...
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July 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM