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Dean F. Sittig is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Health Professions and Medicine, with a focus on subfields such as Health Information Management, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Artificial Intelligence, General Health Professions, and Family Practice.

Their research addresses key topics including Electronic Health Records Systems, Ethics in Clinical Research, Machine Learning in Healthcare, Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills, Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, and Patient Safety and Medication Errors.

The scientist has contributed to multiple venues regularly, with notable frequent publications in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Applied Clinical Informatics, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), JAMA, and the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • Using AI-generated suggestions from ChatGPT to optimize clinical decision support, 2023, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • COVID-19 and the Need for a National Health Information Technology Infrastructure, 2020, JAMA
  • Assessing the Value of ChatGPT for Clinical Decision Support Optimization, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Toward a responsible future: recommendations for AI-enabled clinical decision support, 2024, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • A Sociotechnical Framework for Safety-Related Electronic Health Record Research Reporting: The SAFER Reporting Framework, 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine

Dean F. Sittig has worked extensively with several co-authors, including Adam Wright, Hardeep Singh, Xia Jing, Paul Biondich, and David J. Robinson.

They have also contributed to scholarly literature through published books. One such publication is Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support, released in 2020 by HIMSS Publishing eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Types of Unintended Consequences Related to Computerized Provider Order Entry

    Emily M. Campbell;Dean F. Sittig;Joan S. Ash;Kenneth P. Guappone

  • Grand challenges in clinical decision support

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

  • A new sociotechnical model for studying health information technology in complex adaptive healthcare systems

    Dean F Sittig;Hardeep Singh

  • The Extent and Importance of Unintended Consequences Related to Computerized Provider Order Entry

    Joan S. Ash;Dean F. Sittig;Eric G. Poon;Kenneth Guappone

  • Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support : An Implementer's Guide

    Jerome A. Osheroff;Jonathan M. Teich;Donald Levick;Luis Saldana

  • Computer-based Physician Order Entry: The State of the Art

    Dean F. Sittig;William W. Stead

  • The emerging science of very early detection of disease outbreaks.

    Michael M. Wagner;Fu-Chiang Tsui;Jeremy U. Espino;Virginia M. Dato

  • Some unintended consequences of clinical decision support systems.

    Joan S. Ash;Dean F. Sittig;Emily M. Campbell;Kenneth P. Guappone

  • Categorizing the unintended sociotechnical consequences of computerized provider order entry.

    Joan S. Ash;Dean F. Sittig;Richard H. Dykstra;Kenneth Guappone

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

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

  • Electronic health records and national patient-safety goals.

    Dean F. Sittig;Hardeep Singh;Hardeep Singh

  • The Unintended Consequences of Computerized Provider Order Entry: Findings From a Mixed Methods Exploration

    Joan S. Ash;Dean F. Sittig;Richard H. Dykstra;Emily M. Campbell

  • An analysis of electronic health record-related patient safety concerns.

    Derek W Meeks;Derek W Meeks;Michael W Smith;Michael W Smith;Lesley Taylor;Dean F Sittig

  • Information Overload and Missed Test Results in Electronic Health Record–Based Settings

    Hardeep Singh;Hardeep Singh;Christiane Spitzmueller;Nancy J. Petersen;Nancy J. Petersen;Mona K. Sawhney;Mona K. Sawhney

  • Defining Health Information Technology–Related Errors: New Developments Since To Err Is Human

    Dean F. Sittig;Hardeep Singh

  • Clinical decision support in electronic prescribing: recommendations and an action plan: report of the joint clinical decision support workgroup.

    Jonathan M. Teich;Jerome A. Osheroff;Eric A. Pifer;Dean F. Sittig

  • Patient portals and health apps: Pitfalls, promises, and what one might learn from the other.

    Jessica L. Baldwin;Jessica L. Baldwin;Hardeep Singh;Dean F. Sittig;Traber Davis Giardina

  • The use of sequential pattern mining to predict next prescribed medications

    Aileen P. Wright;Adam T. Wright;Allison B. McCoy;Dean F. Sittig

  • Notification of Abnormal Lab Test Results in an Electronic Medical Record: Do Any Safety Concerns Remain?

    Hardeep Singh;Eric J. Thomas;Dean F. Sittig;Lindsey Wilson

  • Evaluating physician satisfaction regarding user interactions with an electronic medical record system.

    Dean F. Sittig;Gilad J. Kuperman;Julie M. Fiskio

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Wright
Adam Wright Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Blackford Middleton
Blackford Middleton Harvard University
Perry L. Miller
Perry L. Miller Yale University
Michael J. Franklin
Michael J. Franklin University of Chicago
Farah Magrabi
Farah Magrabi Macquarie University
Enrico Coiera
Enrico Coiera Macquarie University
David Gelernter
David Gelernter Yale University
Elmer V. Bernstam
Elmer V. Bernstam The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Hua Xu
Hua Xu Yale University
Roberta B. Ness
Roberta B. Ness The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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