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.
He was
awarded a masters degree in biomedical engineering from Pennsylvania
State University
in 1984 and a PhD in medical informatics from the University of Utah
in 1988. In 1992 he was elected as a Fellow in The American College of Medical
Informatics.
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 (www.improve-it-institute.org) (IMPROVE-IT = Indices measuring performance relating
outcomes, value, and expenditures). 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 Clinical Decision Support Consortium.
He just finished co-authoring a new book, entitled, "Clinical Information Systems: Overcoming Adverse Consequences". Prior to this book he co-authored the 2005 HIMSS award-winning book on
clinical decision support entitled, “Improving Outcomes – A Practical Guide to
Clinical Decision Support Implementation”.
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.
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Graduate Students
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Emily Campbell
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