User-centered clinical decision support to implement emergency department–initiated buprenorphine for opioid use disorder across health systems.
ACCELERATE: Advancing Clinical Care and Empowering Research through Technology Lab
Designing, implementing, and evaluating digital technologies that improve healthcare.
What We Do
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ACCELERATE is Yale’s Clinical Informatics & Digital Innovation Laboratory. We partner with clinicians, patients, health systems, and policymakers to design, implement, and evaluate digital technologies that improve patient outcomes, clinician experience, and healthcare delivery. Our work spans clinical artificial intelligence, clinical decision support, learning health systems, implementation science, and pragmatic clinical trials.
Research Areas
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- Human-Centered Design
- Implementation Science
- Clinical Decision Support
- Real-World Evidence
- Learning Health Systems
- Digital Health
- Pragmatic Clinical Trials
- Clinical AI
Featured Programs
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EMBED ADAPT An adaptive, multi-phase program optimizing clinical decision support and implementation strategies for emergency treatment of opioid use disorder.
Read MorePROPEL A reusable EHR-embedded platform for translating evidence into routine acute neurovascular care and supporting a learning health system.
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Additional Featured Work
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- Real-world evidence synthesis of ambient AI scribesJMIR AI, 2025
- EHR usability and physician burnout Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2020
- Six habits of highly successful health ITJAMIA, 2019
Design Philosophy
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Human-centered
Technology should fit clinical workflows—not the other way around.
Evidence-driven
We evaluate innovations under real-world conditions using rigorous science.
Implementation-first
A successful technology is one clinicians and health systems can adopt and sustain.
Scalable
Projects are designed with dissemination, adaptation, and broader implementation in mind.
Impact
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- 140+ Peer-reviewed publications
- 14+ Years of continuous federal funding
- >$14.5M Federal funding
- >80 Trainees Mentored
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We welcome collaborators, fellows, postdoctoral scholars, residents, students, clinicians, and faculty interested in improving healthcare through digital innovation.
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- Attend a Lab Meeting
Weekly Lab Meeting
ACCELERATE meets Tuesday mornings for project updates, works-in-progress, brainstorming, and discussion of emerging methods and technologies. Fellows, residents, students, faculty, and collaborators with relevant interests are welcome. To learn more or request an invitation, contact Laurel Buchanan or Ted Melnick, MD, MHS.
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