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Blackford Middleton

Blackford Middleton

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
55
Citations
14392
World Ranking
4253
National Ranking
2004

Overview

Blackford Middleton is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields of study, primarily including Decision Sciences and Computer Science. Within these areas, Middleton explores subfields such as Information Systems and Management, Information Systems, Molecular Biology, Health Information Management, and Health Informatics.

Middleton's work covers several main topics, notably:

  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Research Data Management Practices
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Electronic Health Records Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Data Quality and Management
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies

Their recent publications reflect a focus on computable biomedical knowledge and healthcare interoperability. Notable papers include:

  • "A method for structuring complex clinical knowledge and its representational formalisms to support composite knowledge interoperability in healthcare," 2022, Journal of Biomedical Informatics
  • "Summary of second annual MCBK public meeting: Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge-A movement to accelerate translation of knowledge into action," 2020, Learning Health Systems
  • "A survey of computable biomedical knowledge repositories," 2022, Learning Health Systems
  • "Summary of fourth annual MCBK public meeting: Mobilizing computable biomedical knowledge-metadata and trust," 2021, Learning Health Systems
  • "Summary of third annual MCBK public meeting: Mobilizing computable biomedical knowledge-Accelerating the second knowledge revolution," 2020, Learning Health Systems

Middleton frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Their most frequent coauthors include:

  • Robert A. Greenes
  • Jodyn Platt
  • Rachel Richesson
  • Bruce E. Bray
  • Gerald Perry

Their research is primarily published in the following venues:

  • Learning Health Systems
  • Journal of Biomedical Informatics
  • Academic Medicine
  • Proceedings of The Nutrition Society

Best Publications

  • Ten Commandments for Effective Clinical Decision Support: Making the Practice of Evidence-based Medicine a Reality

    David W. Bates;Gilad J. Kuperman;Gilad J. Kuperman;Samuel J. Wang;Tejal K. Gandhi

  • The value of health care information exchange and interoperability.

    Jan Walker;Eric Pan;Douglas Johnston;Julia Adler-Milstein

  • A Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support

    Jerome A. Osheroff;Jonathan M. Teich;Jonathan M. Teich;Blackford Middleton;Elaine B. Steen

  • Enhancing patient safety and quality of care by improving the usability of electronic health record systems: recommendations from AMIA

    Blackford Middleton;Meryl Bloomrosen;Mark A Dente;Bill Hashmat

  • Grand challenges in clinical decision support

    Dean F. Sittig;Adam Wright;Jerome A. Osheroff;Blackford Middleton

  • A Research Agenda for Personal Health Records (PHRs)

    David C. Kaelber;Ashish K. Jha;Douglas Johnston;Douglas Johnston;Blackford Middleton

  • Probabilistic diagnosis using a reformulation of the INTERNIST-1/QMR knowledge base. I. The probabilistic model and inference algorithms.

    M A Shwe;B Middleton;D E Heckerman;M Henrion

  • Assessing the level of healthcare information technology adoption in the United States: a snapshot

    Eric G Poon;Eric G Poon;Eric G Poon;Ashish Kumar Jha;Ashish Kumar Jha;Melissa Christino;Melissa M Honour

  • Return on Investment for a Computerized Physician Order Entry System

    Rainu Kaushal;Ashish K. Jha;Calvin Franz;John P. Glaser

  • Interface design principles for usable decision support

    Jan Horsky;Gordon D. Schiff;Douglas Johnston;Lauren Mercincavage

  • Drug—drug interactions that should be non-interruptive in order to reduce alert fatigue in electronic health records

    Shobha Phansalkar;Shobha Phansalkar;Shobha Phansalkar;Heleen van der Sijs;Alisha D Tucker;Amrita A Desai

  • Clinical Decision Support: a 25 Year Retrospective and a 25 Year Vision

    B. Middleton;D. F. Sittig;A. Wright

  • Using qualitative studies to improve the usability of an EMR

    Alan F. Rose;Jeffrey L. Schnipper;Elyse R. Park;Eric G. Poon

  • Knowledge engineering for large belief networks

    Malcolm Pradhan;Gregory Provan;Blackford Middleton;Max Henrion

  • Clinical Decision Support Capabilities of Commercially-available Clinical Information Systems

    Adam Wright;Adam Wright;Adam Wright;Dean F. Sittig;Joan S. Ash;Sapna Sharma

  • A consensus action agenda for achieving the national health information infrastructure.

    William A. Yasnoff;Betsy L. Humphreys;J. Marc Overhage;Don E. Detmer

  • Accelerating U.S. EHR adoption: How to get there from here. Recommendations based on the 2004 ACMI retreat

    Blackford Middleton;W. Ed Hammond;Patricia F. Brennan;Gregory F. Cooper

  • High-priority drug-drug interactions for use in electronic health records.

    Shobha Phansalkar;Shobha Phansalkar;Shobha Phansalkar;Amrita A. Desai;Douglas S. Bell;Douglas S. Bell;Eileeen Yoshida

  • Clinical decision support models and frameworks: Seeking to address research issues underlying implementation successes and failures.

    Robert A. Greenes;Robert A. Greenes;David W. Bates;Kensaku Kawamoto;Blackford Middleton

  • Development and evaluation of a comprehensive clinical decision support taxonomy: comparison of front-end tools in commercial and internally developed electronic health record systems

    Adam Wright;Adam Wright;Dean F. Sittig;Joan S. Ash;Joshua Feblowitz;Joshua Feblowitz

  • MarketW atch The Value Of Health Care Information Exchange And Interoperability

    Jan Walker;Eric Pan;Douglas Johnston;Julia Adler-Milstein

  • Practice-Linked Online Personal Health Records for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

    Richard W. Grant;Jonathan S. Wald;Jeffrey L. Schnipper;Tejal K. Gandhi

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Wright
Adam Wright Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dean F. Sittig
Dean F. Sittig The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Julia Adler-Milstein
Julia Adler-Milstein University of California, San Francisco
David Heckerman
David Heckerman Microsoft (United States)
Eric Horvitz
Eric Horvitz Microsoft (United States)
Robert A. Greenes
Robert A. Greenes Arizona State University
Gregory F. Cooper
Gregory F. Cooper University of Pittsburgh
Randolph A. Miller
Randolph A. Miller Vanderbilt University
David Blumenthal
David Blumenthal Harvard University
Joseph P. Newhouse
Joseph P. Newhouse Harvard University

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