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Care Transitions and Teamwork in Pediatric Trauma: Implications for Health Information Technology Design
This project seeks to develop an understanding of the cognitive work of clinician teams and family members involved in pediatric trauma care transitions in order to design usable and useful health information technologies.
Improving Accuracy of Electronic Notes Using a Faster, Simpler Approach
This project aims to refine, use, and evaluate a new method for creating electronic physician notes in the electronic medical record that improves accuracy and timely availability of inpatient progress notes.
Perception and Use of a Patient Care Window to Improve Care and Family Engagement
This project will evaluate and improve a novel health information technology application called Patient’s Interactive Care Window (PICWi) to enhance patient care and family engagement in a pediatric intensive care unit.
The Effect of Health Information Technology on Health Care Provider Communication
The purpose of this study is to describe how communication technologies make it easier or more difficult for nurses and physicians to communicate with each other, with a goal of finding ways to support effective communication.
A Community Health Information Exchange-based Hospital Readmission Risk Prediction & Notification System
This project developed and validated a 30-day readmission risk prediction model that incorporated data from a health information exchange.
Evaluation of Stage 3 Meaningful Use Objectives: Analysis in Maryland and Arkansas
This project evaluated the feasibility of two Stage 3 Meaningful Use Care Coordination measures and provided feedback to policymakers and providers for their improvement.
Evaluation of Stage 3 Meaningful Use Objectives: Analysis in Pennsylvania and Utah
This project evaluated select Stage 3 Meaningful Use criteria in the Patient and Family Engagement, Care Coordination, and Interoperability domains and developed recommendations to improve them and increase their value to hospitals and practices implementing them.
Evaluation of Stage 3 Meaningful Use Objectives: Analysis in North Carolina and Tennessee
This project assessed and made recommendations about draft Stage 3 Meaningful Use objectives in the areas of care coordination and patient and family engagement.
Understanding How Social Influence and Social Networks Affect Electronic Medical Record Implementation
This project studied the influence of social networks on technology implementation and found that clinicians’ networks influence beliefs and use of the electronic medical records.
Exploring the Creation of Nurses Information Documentation and Use in Clinic Work
This project will develop a thorough understanding of paper tools that nurses use to organize information, and will recommend strategies for the development of a standardized electronic tool based on the paper tools.
