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Patient Safety
Anesthesiology Control Tower: Feedback Alerts to Supplement Treatment (ACTFAST)
The goal of this project is to develop and evaluate an air traffic control-like command center for operating rooms.
Cognitive Engineering for Complex Decisionmaking & Problem Solving in Acute Care
This project will apply the science of human factors and cognitive engineering to the design of clinical decision support and information technology with the goal of improving patient safety.
Ambulatory Clinic Exam Room Design With Respect to Computing Devices to Enhance Patient Centeredness
This project will create and evaluate a prototype redesigned clinical exam room layout that incorporates the use of health information technology tools to improve workflow and patient-centeredness.
Preventing Wrong-Drug and Wrong-Patient Errors With Indication Alerts in CPOE Systems
The project will develop and test a large set of alerts at two large health systems to demonstrate that alerts can help prevent wrong-drug and wrong-patient errors and improve the completeness of the problem list.
Novel IT To Create Patient-Integrated Quality Improvement
This project will create and evaluate a tool that gathers patient and family member feedback on pediatric care. The tool will make the feedback rapidly available to providers through a dashboard to enable timely and responsive safety improvement efforts.
Natural Language Processing To Identify and Rank Clinically Relevant Information for EHRs in the Emergency Department
This project will develop a natural language processing search tool that will automatically identify and rank relevant clinical information in an electronic health record based on a patient’s presenting complaint.
Develop and Validate Health IT Safety Measures To Capture Violations of the Five Rights of Medication Safety
This project will develop and validate new measures needed for automatically identifying violations of the “Five Rights of Medication Safety”: right patient, right dose, right medication, right route, and right frequency.
Preventing Perioperative Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events Through the Use of Clinical Decision Support
This project will develop a clinical decision support tool for the perioperative setting.
Evidence-based Contingency Planning for Electronic Health Record Downtime
The project will develop more rigorous electronic health record downtime procedures to improve patient safety, quality of care, and organizational processes.
Learning From Primary Care EHR Exemplars About Health IT Safety
This project will identify pragmatic approaches to the safe use of electronic health records in primary care, developing a taxonomy of key strategies and best practices around safe use.
