The PERU IHSI team’s vision is to enable all health systems to conceptualize and integrate innovations to optimize service quality, patient outcomes, and cost savings, while achieving their vision for all patients and communities that they serve.

“Innovation” is defined by PERU as a novel methodology, product, process or idea. The PERU IHSI Team facilitates the implementation and evaluation of healthcare innovations within physical and behavioral healthcare systems to improve the coordination of care, enhance collaboration among service providers, drive policy, and increase initiation of evidence-based, innovative approaches to healthcare service delivery.

All innovations are implemented and evaluated using principles of implementation science, including Diffusion of Innovation Theory, the most recent published literature, and clinical guidelines.

Innovations include