January 29, 2024- There is tremendous amount of wasteful spending in the U.S. healthcare system, and at the same time, large numbers of patients and would-be patients can’t afford healthcare, as Thomas McGinn, M.D., M.P.H., of CommonSpirit Health noticed in his early years as a physician. Today, Dr. McGinn is the Executive Vice President of Physician Enterprise at CommonSpirit Health. A practicing internal medicine physician, he is a nationally recognized researcher with appointments at Baylor College of Medicine and Creighton University School of Medicine.
With AHRQ support, Dr. McGinn has developed clinical prediction rules and integrated them into electronic health record (EHR) systems, accelerating their adoption and use. Dr. McGinn started working on clinical prediction rules to estimate the probability of a disease or clinical outcome. This work went on to enabled the development of a publicly available survival calculator for hospitalized COVID-19 patients.