Texas Children’s Hospital Uses Evidence-Based Practices to Improve Wellness, Diagnosis and Care Outcomes

Consistently ranked as best in the state, Texas Children's Hospital was recognized as a 2022 Davies Awards Winner. The Houston health center for women and children featured evidence-based practices in using digital infrastructure to drastically improve wellness and care outcomes for its patients.

Texas Children’s Hospital also incorporated information technology-enabled solutions to create a first-of-its-kind framework for pediatric palliative care that improved equitable and empathetic end-of-life care for children and their families.

Texas Children’s is also recognized for enhancing diagnosis and care outcomes for early signs of high blood pressure and refining equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines for pediatric patients in Houston.

Texas Children’s Hospital Case Studies

• Recognizing Pediatric Elevated Blood Pressure using an EPIC Best Practice Alert 
• Implementation of Real-Time COVID 19 Vaccines Tracking with Integrated Medication Management Technology 
• Creation of a Novel Pediatric Palliative Care Navigator to Improve End-of-Life Care for Children with Serious Illness

“We are committed to leveraging data and technology in a deliberate effort to improve our patient’s lives, and the Davies Award affirms that we are doing so.” said Myra Davis, senior vice present, chief information and innovations officer for Texas Children’s Hospital. “I am incredibly proud of our information technology, informatics and clinical teams who are consistently seeking new and innovative ways to improve outcomes.”