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Latest key publications and reports

Pacheco, T.B., Hettinger, A. Z., & Ratwani, R.M. (2019). Identifying Potential Patient Safety Issues from the Federal Electronic Health Record Surveillance Program. Journal of the American Medical Association.

Ratwani, R.M., Reider, J., & Singh, H. (2019). A Decade of Health Information Technology Usability Challenges and the Path Forward. Journal of the American Medical Association.

Howe, J. L., Adams, K. T., Hettinger, A. Z., & Ratwani, R. M. (2018). Electronic Health Record Usability Issues and Potential Contribution to Patient Harm. Journal of the American Medical Association.

Miller, K., Mosby, D., Capan, M., Kowalski, R., Ratwani, R.M., Noaiseh, Y., Kraft, R., Schwartz, S., Weintraub, W.S., & Arnold, R. (2018). Interface, Information, Interaction: A Narrative Review of Design and Functional Requirements for Clinical Decision Support. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Ratwani, R.M., Savage, E., Will, A., Fong, A., Karavite, D., Muthu, N., River, A. J., Gibson, C., Asmonga, D., Moscovitch, B., Grundmeier, R., & Rising, J. P. (2018). Identifying Electronic Health Record Usability and Safety Challenges in Pediatric Settings. Health Affairs

Hettinger A.Z., Roth, E., & Bisantz, A.M. (2017). Cognitive Engineering and Health Informatics: Applications and Intersections. Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

Kellogg, K., Hettinger, A.Z., Shah, M., Wears, R.L., Sellers, C.R., Squires, M., & Fairbanks, R.J. (2017). Our Current Approach to Root Cause Analysis: Is it Contributing to our Failure to Improve Safety? BMJ Quality & Safety.

Fong, A., Hoffman, D., Hettinger, A.Z., Fairbanks, R.J., & Bisantz, A. (2016). Identifying Visual Search Patterns in Eye Gaze Data; Gaining Insights into Physician Visual Workflow. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Fong, A., Hettinger, A. Z., & Ratwani, R. M. (2015). Exploring Methods for Identifying Related Patient Safety Events Using Structured and Unstructured Data. Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

Miller, K.E., Mims, M., Paull, D.E., Williams, L., Neily, J., Mills, P.D., Lee, C.Z., & Hemphill, R.R. (2014). Wrong-Side Thoracentesis: Lessons Learned from Root Cause Analysis. JAMA Surgery

Miller, K., Benden, M., Pickens, A., Shipp, E., & Zheng, Q. (2012). Ergonomics Principles Associated with Laparoscopic Surgeon Injury/Illness. Human Factors.

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