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SharpC Publications by Year

2014 Publications

• Zhang J, Walji M, editors. Better EHR. Usability, workflow & cognitive support in electronic health records. First ed: National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare; 2014.
• Xiao Y, Montgomery D, Philpot LM, Barnes SA, Compton J, Kennerly D Development of a Tool to Measure User Experience Following Electronic Health Record Implementation. J Nurs Admin. 2014 Jul-Aug. 44(7/8):423-8.
• A. Sopan, C. Plaisant, S. Powsner, B. Shneiderman.  User Interface Techniques to Reduce Wrong Patient Selection Error. Proc. AMIA 2014 Annual Symposium
• Joffe E, Byrne MJ, Reeder P, Herskovic JR, Johnson CW, McCoy AB, Sittig DF, Bernstam EV. A benchmark comparison of deterministic and probabilistic methods for defining manual review datasets in duplicate records reconciliation. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014 Jan-Feb;21(1):97-104. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001744.
• Wright A, Feblowitz J, Samal L, McCoy AB, Sittig DF. The Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program: provider performance on core and menu measures. Health Serv Res. 2014 Feb;49(1 Pt 2):325-46. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12134. Epub 2013 Dec 21.
• McCoy AB, Wright A, Rogith D, Fathiamini S, Ottenbacher AJ, Sittig DF. Development of a clinician reputation metric to identify appropriate problem-medication pairs in a crowd sourced knowledge base. J Biomed Inform. 2014 Apr;48:66-72. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2013.11.010.

2013 Publications

• Johnson T,Markowitz E, Bernstam EV, Herskovic JR, Thimbleby. SYFSA: A framework for Systematic Yet Flexible Systems Analysis. J Biomed Inform (2013), doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2013.05.003.
• Kannampallil TG, Franklin A, Mishra R, Almoosa KF, Cohen T, Patel VL. Understanding the nature of information seeking behavior in critical care: implications for the design of health information technology. Artif Intell Med (2013) doi:  10.1016/j.artmed.2012.10.002.
• Klann JG, McCoy AB, Wright A, Wattanasin N, Sittig DF, Murphy SN. Health Care Transformation Through Collaboration on Open-Source Informatics Projects: Integrating a Medical Applications Platform, Research Data Repository, and Patient Summarization. Interactive Journal of Medical Research 2013; 2: doi:  10.2196/ijmr.2454.
• McCoy AB, Melton GB, Wright A, Sittig DF. Clinical Decision Support for Colon and Rectal Surgery: An Overview. Clin Colon Rectal Surg. 2013 Mar;26(1):23-30.
• McCoy AB, Sittig DF, Wright A. Comparison of clinical knowledge bases for summarization of electronic health records. Stud Health Technology Inform. 2013;192:1217.
• McCoy AB, Wright A, Eysenbach G, Malin BA, Patterson ES, Xu H, Sittig DF. State of the art in clinical informatics: evidence and examples. Yearb Med Inform. 2013;8(1):13-9.
• McCoy AB, Wright A, Kahn MG, Shapiro J, Bernstam EV, Sittig DF. Matching Identifiers in Electronic Health Records: Implications for Duplicate Records and Patient Safety. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013 Mar;22(3):219-24. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2012-001419.
• Plaisant C, Chao T, Wu T, Hettinger AZ, Herskovic JR, Johnson TR, Bernstam EV, Powser S, Shneiderman B. Twinlist: novel user interface designs for medication reconciliation. AMIA Annu Symp Proc (2013).
• Rind A, Wang TD, Aigner W, Miksch S, Wongsuphasawat K, Plaisant C, Shneiderman B. Interactive Information Visualization to Explore and Query Electronic Health Records. 2013.
• Shneiderman B, Plaisant C, Hesse BW. Improving Healthcare with interactive visualization. Computer. 2013.
• Sittig DF, Singh H, Lonhurst CA. Rights and responsibilities of electronic health records (EHR) users caring for children. Arch Argent Pediatr. 2013 Dec;111(6):468-71. doi: 10.1590/S0325-00752013000600003.
• Staggers N., Xiao, Y., Chapman, L. Debunking Health IT Usability Myths. Applied Clinical Informatics. 2013;4:241–250
• Wright A, McCoy AB, Henkin S, Kale A, Sittig DF. Use of a support vector machine for categorizing free-text notes: assessment of accuracy across two institutions. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2013 Sep-Oct;20(5):887-90. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001576.
• Wright A, Henkin S, Feblowitz J, McCoy AB, Bates DW, Sittig DF.Early results of the meaningful use program for electronic health records. N Engl J Med. 2013 Feb 21;368(8):779-80. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1213481.
• Wright A, McCoy AB, Henkins S, Flaherty M, Sittig DF. Validation of an Association Rule Mining-Based Method to Infer Associations Between Medications and Problems. Appl Clin Inform. 2013 Mar 6;4(1):100-9. doi: 10.4338/ACI-2012-12-RA-0051.

2012 Publications

• D’Amore JD, Sittig DF, Ness RB. How the Continuity of Care Document Can Advance Medical Research and Public Health. American Journal of Public Health 2012 Mar 15. PMID: 22420795.
• Kannampallil TG, Franklin A, Mishra R, Almoosa KF, Cohen T, & Patel VL. Understanding the nature of information seeking behavior in critical care: Implications for the design of health information technology. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2012.
• Lowry, S. Z., Quinn, M. T., Ramaiah, M., Brick, D., Patterson, E. S., Zhang, J., Abbott, P., & Gibbons, M. C. (2012). A Human Factors Guide to Enhance EHR Usability of Critical User Interactions when Supporting Pediatric Patient Care. (NISTIR 7865). National Institute of Standards and Technology.
• McCoy AB, Wright A, Laxmisan A, Ottosen MJ, McCoy JA, Butten D, Sittig DF. Development and evaluation of a crowdsourcing methodology for knowledge base construction: identifying relationships between clinical problems and medications. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2012 Sep 1;19(5):713-8. Epub 2012 May 12. 
• Murphy DR, Reis B, Kadiyala H, Hirani K, Sittig DF, Khan MM, Singh H. Electronic Health Record-Based Messages to Primary Care Providers: Valuable Information or Just Noise?. Arch Intern Med. 2012 Feb 13;172(3):283-5. PMID: 22332167.
• Murphy DR, Reis B, Sittig DF, Singh H. Notifications received by primary care practitioners in electronic health records: a taxonomy and time analysis. Am J Med. 2012 Feb;125(2):209.e1-7. PMID: 22269625.
• Osheroff JA, Teich JM, Levick D, Saldana L, Velasco FT, Sittig DF, Rogers KM, Jenders RA. Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer’s Guide, Second Edition. Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, 2012.
• Pantazos K, Tarkan S, Plaisant C, & Shneiderman B. Promoting Timely Completion of Multi-Step Processes -- A Visual Approach to Retrospective Analysis. 2012.
• Pantazos, K., Tarkan, S., Plaisant, C., Shneiderman, B. Exposing Delays in Multi-Step Processes by Retrospective Analysis. 2012.
• Payne, T, Butler K, Ruggerio F, Middleton B. Improving Usability, Quality and Safety: Key Lessons from Airplane Cockpit Design (AMIA 2012) See the Boeing video included during this panel presentation.
• Saitwal H, Qing D, Jones S, Bernstam EV, Chute CG & Johnson TR. Cross-terminology mapping challenges: A demonstration using medication terminological systems. J Biomed Inform. 2012; 45: 613–625. doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2012.06.005.
• Schumacher, R. M., Patterson, E., S., North, R., Zhang, J., Lowry, S. Z., Quinn, M. T., Ramaiah, M, & National Institute of Standards and Technology. (2012). Technical Evaluation Testing and Validation of the Usability of Electronic Health Records. (NISTIR 7804). National Institute of Standards and Technology.
• Laxmisan A, McCoy AB, Wright A, Sittig DF Clinical Summarization Capabilities of Commercially-available and Internally-developed Electronic Health Records. Apl Clin Inform. 2012 Feb 22;3(1):80-93.
• Sittig DF, Singh H. Electronic Health Records and National Patient-Safety Goals. New England Journal of Medicine 2012 Nov 8;367(19):1854-60. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsb1205420.
• Sittig DF, Singh H. Rights and Responsibilities of Physician Users of Electronic Health Records. Canadian Medical Association Journal Feb 13, 2012. PMID: 22331971. doi:10.1503/cmaj.111599.
• Tarkan, S., Franklin, L., Plaisant, C., Shneiderman, B.Design Guidelines for Ensuring Timely Management of Medical Orders.2012.

2011 Publications

• Butler KA, Haselkorn M, Bahrami A, & Schroder K. Introducing the MATH Method and Toolsuite for Evidence-based HIT. (AMA-IEEE, 2011).
• D’Amore J. The Promise of the Continuity of Care Document. Master’s Thesis School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. 2011.
• D’Amore JD, Sittig DF, Wright A, Iyengar MS, Ness RB. The Promise of the CCD: Challenges and Opportunity for Quality Improvement and Population Health. AMIA Fall Symposium, 2011:285-94. PMID: 22195080.
• Description of Twinlist: Chao T. Visual techniques for medication reconciliation: spatial metaphor, animated explanation, and flexible decision-making (Undergrad Honor Project report - Dec 2011).
• Feblowitz JC, Wright A, Singh H, Samal L, Sittig DF. Summarization of Clinical Information: A Conceptual Model. J Biomed Inform. 2011 Aug;44(4):688-99. PMID: 21440086.
• Harrington, C., Wood, R., Breuer, J., Pinzon, O., Howell, R., Pednekar, M., Zhu, M., & Zhang, J. (2011). Using a Unified Usability Framework to Dramatically Improve the Usability of an EMR Module. Proceedings of AMIA 2011.
• Markowitz E, Bernstam E, Herskovic J, Zhang J, Shneiderman B, Plaisant C, & Johnson T. Medication Reconciliation: Work Domain Ontology, Prototype Development, and a Predictive Model (AMIA Fall 2011).
• McCoy AB, Wright A, Laxmisan A, Singh H, Sittig DF. A Prototype Knowledge Base and SMART App to Facilitate Organization of Patient Medications by Clinical Problems. AMIA Fall Symposium, 2011:888-94. PMID: 22195147.
• Radecki RP, Sittig DF.Application of Electronic Health Records to the 2011 Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals. Journal of the American Medical Association 2011 Jul 6;306(1):92-3. PMID: 21730246.
• Singh H, Classen DC, Sittig DF. Creating an Oversight Infrastructure for Electronic Health Record-Related-Patient Safety Hazards. J Patient Saf. 2011 Dec;7(4):169-174. PMID: 22080284.
• Sittig DF, Ash JS. On the Importance of Using a Multidimensional Socio-technical Model to Study Health Information Technology. Ann Fam Med. 2011 Sep-Oct;9(5):390-1. PMID: 21911756.
• Sittig DF, Singh H. Defining Health Information Technology-related Errors: New Developments Since To Err is Human. Archives of Internal Medicine 171(14): 1279-1282; 2011. PMID: 21788544.
• Sittig DF, Singh H. Legal, Ethical, and Financial Dilemmas in Electronic Health Record Adoption and Use. Pediatrics 2011; 127:e1042–e1047. PMID: 21422090. doi:10.1542/peds.2010-2184.
• Sittig DF, Wright A, Meltzer S, Simonaitis L, Evans RS, Nichol WP, Ash JS, Middleton B. Comparison of clinical knowledge management capabilities of commercially-available and leading internally-developed electronic health records. BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making. 2011 Feb 17;11(1):13. PMID: 21329520.
• Tarkan, S., Franklin, L., Plaisant, C., Shneiderman, B. Design Guidelines for Ensuring Timely Management of Medical Orders.
• Tarkan, S., Plaisant, C., Shneiderman, B., Hettinger, A. Z., Ensuring Timely Clinical Lab Test Result Management: A Generative XML Process Model to Support Medical Care [UPDATE VERSION UNDER PREPARATION].
• Tarkan, S., Plaisant, C., Shneiderman, B., Hettinger, A. Z., Reducing Missed Laboratory Results: Defining Temporal Responsibility, Generating User Interfaces for Test Process Tracking, and Retrospective Analyses to Identify Problems (AMIA Fall 2011).
• Wright A, Feblowitz J, McCoy AB, Sittig DF. Comparative Analysis of the VA/Kaiser and NLM CORE Problem Subsets: An Empirical Study Based on Problem Frequency. AMIA Fall Symposium, 2011:1532-40. PMID: 22195218.
• Wright A, Pang J, Feblowitz JC, Maloney FL, Wilcox AR, Ramelson HZ, Schneider LI, & Bates DW. A method and knowledge base for automated inference of patient problems from structured data in an electronic medical record. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2011;18:6;859-867. doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000121.
• Zhang J & Walji MF. TURF: Toward a unified framework of EHR Usability. J Biomed Inform 2011; 44: 1056-1067.

2010 Publications

• Rind A, Wang T, Aigner W, Miksch S, Wongsuphasawat K, Plaisant, C, Shneiderman B.Interactive Information Visualization for Exploring and Querying Electronic Health Records: A Systematic Review. 2010.