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The PRODUCE Study is now officially enrolling eligible participants. Four ImproveCareNow centers, including Seattle Children’s Hospital, Stanford Children's Health, Nemours Children's Health System - Wilmington, and Children’s Mercy are actively recruiting participants. The remaining seven centers should be recruiting participants by May.

Upon returning from an in-person meeting of the Board of Directors of ImproveCareNow, Dr. John A. Barnard submitted his reflections about ImproveCareNow and the role the network plays in pediatric IBD research and health care improvement to a Columbus, Ohio newspaper – The Columbus Dispatch. The resulting article, entitled “Pediatric research: Data-driven care improving lives of kids with bowel disease,” was published in the scientific news section of dispatch.com on February 18, 2018.

ImproveCareNow is a collaborative community where clinicians, researchers, parents, patients, and improvers are empowered to learn and continuously improve to bring about more reliable, proactive IBD care, and healthier children and youth. We are pleased to share our Annual Update, which includes highlights and achievements from 2017 and plans for our continued work to improve care and health for kids with IBD in 2018 and beyond.

In 2017 ImproveCareNow:

ImproveCareNow (ICN) has officially announced the call for proposals from clinician, parent, and patient members of the ICN community to develop presentations for the Spring 2018 Community Conference.

ImproveCareNow has officially endorsed the 2018 Crohn’s & Colitis Congress™: A Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation and American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Partnership.

LOOP is the official blog of ImproveCareNow and home of #myICN stories. The blog, which features stories and insights from patients, parents, clinicians, researchers and improvers, was recently included in a listing of the Top 10 Crohn’s disease blogs by Medical News Today.

We believe that many of the most innovative and potentially high-impact ideas for improving pediatric IBD care are likely to come from those living with the condition daily. Because of this, ImproveCareNow has launched the ImproveCareNow Patient and Parent Innovation Fund. The awardees for the pilot year of this program have now been announced!

The ImproveCareNow web and research teams have been working hard the last couple months to bring new features to our website, making it easier to learn about and connect with ImproveCareNow research. Below are a few of the highlights. 

We know that many of the most innovative and potentially high-impact ideas for improving pediatric IBD care are likely to come from those living with the condition daily. Because of this, ImproveCareNow is pleased and proud to announce the launch and pilot year of the ImproveCareNow Patient and Parent Innovation Fund.

On July 19, 2017 the Bruce and Cynthia Sherman Charitable Foundation announced that Dr. Lee Denson, Director of the Schubert-Martin IBD Center at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, a founding member of the ImproveCareNow Network, was selected as a recipient of the 2017 Sherman Prize for significant achievements in advancing research and innovative care models that have improved the health and wellness of millions of Americans living with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, also known as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD).