Examines the effect of tele-ICU monitoring on mortality, complications, length of stay, cost-effectiveness, provider attitudes, and human factors issues in ICUs and 7 community hospitals.
The findings of this study demonstrated that electronic health record-based trigger methods can enable more meaningful measurement and surveillance of diagnostic errors in primary care.
This project used health information technology to identify patients for whom a diagnosis of prostate, lung, or colon cancer had been delayed.
This project developed dashboards to support clinical decision making in the emergency department and found that the new technology was readily accepted.
This project applied a human factors-based framework to understand factors associated with missed test results and found that health information technology is a key barrier to test followup.
This project identified patients’ needs, preferences, and responses when receiving abnormal test result notifications through an electronic patient portal, and developed a usable prototype to improving test result communication.
This research will implement a personalized and electronically integrated shared clinical decision support system for left ventricular assist devices in patients with advanced heart failure.
