Joshua R. Vest, PhD, MPH

June 15, 2021

This article demonstrates that few patient encounters with indicators of need for diabetes self-management education result in a provider referral to the service.

January 20, 2021

Natural language processing can be used for automated extraction of social work interventions from electronic health records, thereby supporting social work staffing and resource allocation decisions.

January 17, 2018

Hospital participation in Meaningful Use was associated with reduced disparities in 30-day readmissions for African American Medicare beneficiaries.

December 13, 2016

Aligning health information technology with population health requires organizations to think differently about data needs, exchange partners, and how to leverage both for evidence-based action.

December 12, 2016

The 6th annual Health Information Technology (IT) issue occurs at a time of significant change in US health IT—related policies. These articles will offer guidance to those working to overcome their own health IT challenges and support practitioners’, policy makers’ and researchers’ efforts to leverage health IT in support of a better health system.

January 14, 2015

Usage of a health information exchange system at the point of care reduced the occurrence of repeat imaging procedures in a multi-payer community sample.

November 17, 2014

Healthcare professionals used a complex combination of information retrieval pathways for health information exchange to obtain clinical information from external organizations.