Back
USA, PA, Philadelphia
Electronic Health Record Use, Work Environments, and Patient Outcomes
Focusing on the work environment of nurses, this project will study the organizational conditions under which electronic health records function best in hospitals and their potential to improve the outcomes of medical-surgical patients.
Pediatric Patient Engagement as a Criteria for Meaningful Use Stage 3
This project evaluated the use of an asthma portal by focusing on provider implementation and health outcomes for children, low-income families, and children with special health care needs.
CHOICE: Coalition of Hospices Organized to Investigate Comparative Effectiveness
This project established the feasibility of extracting quality indicators from hospice electronic medical records for comparative effectiveness research.
Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation and Adoption of EHR in Home Care
This study assessed the barriers, facilitators, and impact of implementing an electronic health record in a home care agency, and developed recommendations for Meaningful Use (MU) objectives in long-term and post-acute care settings.
MyHealthPortal: Using an Electronic Portal to Empower Patients with Breast Cancer
The primary objective of this research is to integrate personal information from an electronic medical record within a patient portal called “MyHealthPortal.”.
Crossing the Quality Assessment Chasm: Aligning Measured and True Quality of Care
This study supported the notion that the current focus on quality of care for diabetics favors providers that start with panels where a majority of patients already have good control.
Improving Otitis Media Care with Electronic Health Record (EHR)-based Clinical Decision Support and Feedback
In this project, a clinical decision support tool was developed for Otitis Media, and then studied in a cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate its impact on the quality of care of Otitis Media.
The Give Teens Vaccines Study
This project evaluated the impact of clinician-focused and patient/family-focused health information interventions on HPV vaccination rates among adolescents.
Using a Telemedicine System to Promote Patient Care Among Underserved Individuals
This project created a patient-centered tool for managing hypertension within a primary care practice. The system facilitates patient education on hypertension, self-management, shared decisionmaking, and treatment planning.
