Implementation Science & Practice
We help make health care better for people everywhere by advancing the uptake of evidence-based practices.
How can we move research into practice in a faster, more practical way?
New research on how to optimize patient care and clinical operations is published every day. But often research goes unused, as it is not packaged for easy uptake. Health system leaders and primary care teams need practical tools to help them apply research findings into everyday patient care.
Implementation science and practice can fill the gap
A relatively new field, implementation science is the scientific study of how to integrate evidence and evidence-based practices into new settings with the goal of improving patient care. Implementation science aims to shorten the time it takes for research to be put into practice in health care and community settings — and to address barriers to doing this efficiently, equitably, and in ways that can be sustained in the long term.
Our work in implementation science and practice falls into 3 primary areas:
- Theory, methods, and measures, which help us to understand and measure this work.
- Learning collaboratives, which bring teams together to discuss challenges, identify best practices and learn from one another.
- Practice facilitation/coaching, which pairs clinic teams with a coach to help them apply evidence-based strategies to their unique contexts to improve patient care.
The ACT Center team has led groundbreaking projects across these areas of implementation science.
Featured work in implementation science and practice
Featured news
Fresh from an international conference on practice facilitation, Jess Mogk reflects on what’s next as the field advances.
Theory, methods & measures
