History
History and background
For more than 50 years, health care leaders and educators have been interested in how collaborative teams can help improve health outcomes, but enthusiasm for putting the concept into practice has varied over the decades.
Nexus Innovation Network
There is a growing gap between how health professionals are trained and the real-world skills needed to deliver effective patient care. Our work aims to narrow that by creating a Nexus, a place where health professions education and health care delivery systems work together, sharing ideas and best practices that have the potential to meet the demands of transforming processes of care delivery and the challenges in educating and training the next generation of health professionals.
Planning Your Nexus
The National Center is committed to driving sustainable change in health, health care delivery and health professions education. That sustainability requires a new kind of collaboration and shared responsibility among education and practice partners at local, regional and national levels. We call this relationship the Nexus.
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We're working with leading organizations and experts around the world to advance our shared vision of better care, added value and healthier communities. Join us.
National Center Data Repository
An essential component to the Nexus Innovations Incubator Network’s success is a first-in-the-nation data repository focused on IPECP outcomes. Called the National Center Data Repository (NCDR), it is where incubator network members collect data on their own projects and upload de-identified data to contribute to the national understanding of the Nexus on Triple Aim outcomes.
The NCDR uses state-of-the-art analysis capabilities to address the challenge of lack of data to test the effectiveness and return on investment of interprofessional models.
Marketing Materials
The National Center will create and distribute marketing materials to assist leaders and advocates in "making the case" for interprofessional practice and education within their own institutions and communities.
Funding
The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education is supported by a Health Resources and Services Administration Cooperative Agreement Award No. UE5HP25067.
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