USA, CA, Oakland

This project will examine the quality and safety impact of patient-initiated telemedicine visits with primary care providers.

This study looked at patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease who would benefit from treatment intensification.

This project developed nine obesity care quality measures and developed and validated the use of an automated method using natural language processing to utilize the measures.

Evaluated the effects of staggered installation of an Epic health IT system that includes an EMR with provider order entry and clinical decision support in primary care settings on quality, safety, and resource use within a large integrated delivery system on cohort of 780,000 members with chronic illnesses.

This project built and evaluated an interactive social media Web site devoted to vaccines with a blog, discussion forum, chat room, and an anonymous portal through which parents were able to ask questions.