Clinical Information Systems: Overcoming Adverse Consequences: . (Jones and Bartlett Series in Biomedical Informatics)

Clinical Information Systems: Overcoming Adverse Consequences: . (Jones and Bartlett Series in Biomedical Informatics)

. Dean F. Sittig is an Associate Professor in the School of Health Information Sciences at the University of Texas, Health Sciences Center at Houston and a member of the UT-Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality & Safety. Dr. Sittig’s research interests center on the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of all aspects of clinical information systems. In addition to Dr. Sittig’s work on measuring the impact of clinical information systems on a large scale, he is working to improve our understanding of both the factors that lead to success, as well as, the unintended consequences associated with computer-based clinical decision support and provider order entry systems. Towards this end, he is a co-founder of The IMPROVE-IT Institute. The goal of IMPROVE-IT is to develop a world-wide consortium of organizations interested in learning about and improving the processes surrounding the implementation and use of all aspects of clinical information systems. 'He is the lead investigator of the clinical knowledge management and CCHIT teams within the AHRQ. Finally, he is the founding editor of both The Informatics Review (www.informatics-review.com), an on-line serial devoted to helping clinicians and information system professionals keep up to date with the field of clinical informatics, and The ClinfoWiki (www.clinfowiki.org), an interactive, collaborative on-line clinical informatics reference resource. Joan S. Ash is Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Portland, OR.'She holds masters degrees in library science, health science, and business administration and a Ph.D in Systems Science.'She has served on the Boards of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association, the Medical Library Association, on NLM’s Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee, and is presently chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications of NLM.'She is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.'Her research has as its focus behavioral and social issues related to implementing clinical information systems, specifically computerized provider order entry (CPOE) and clinical decision support (CDS), and the use of qualitative methods for conducting such studies.'Dr. Ash leads a team of researchers, the Provider Order Entry Team (POET), which has conducted national surveys of CPOE use and its unintended consequences and fieldwork in'fifteen organizations to investigate success factors and unintended consequences of CPOE and CDS.'More information is available on the POET web site at www.cpoe.org.