University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston

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 developed dashboards to support clinical decision making in the emergency department and found that the new technology was readily accepted.