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2025

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Overview

Vimla L. Patel is affiliated with the New York Academy of Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Health Professions, Computer Science, and Medicine, with significant publications in specialized areas such as Health Information Management, Artificial Intelligence, and Emergency Medical Services.

Their scholarly contributions cover a range of topics including Electronic Health Records Systems, Healthcare Systems and Technology, Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization, Persona Design and Applications, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies.

Patel's recent papers include:

  • Physician Workflow in Two Distinctive Emergency Departments: An Observational Study (2021, Applied Clinical Informatics)
  • A secondary data analysis on hypotheses generated by inexperienced clinical researchers: Cases from a randomized controlled study (2025, Health Informatics Journal)
  • Physician Attitudes About Veterans Affairs Video Connect Encounters (2024, Federal Practitioner)
  • Automated Location Tracking in Clinical Environments: A Review of Systems and Impact on Workflow Analysis (2025, Cognitive informatics in biomedicine and healthcare)

Frequent publication venues for Patel include:

  • Applied Clinical Informatics
  • Health Informatics Journal
  • Federal Practitioner
  • Cognitive informatics in biomedicine and healthcare

Among frequent collaborators, Patel has worked multiple times with:

  • Thomas Kannampallil
  • David R. Kaufman
  • Edward H. Shortliffe
  • Kai Zheng
  • Johanna Westbrook

Their research scope encompasses the practical integration of technology into healthcare environments, focusing on workflow analysis and system optimization. Topics such as physician workflows, clinical environment tracking, and digital health tools frequently appear in their publications, reflecting an interest in both operational and technological dimensions of health care.

Best Publications

  • Cognitive and usability engineering methods for the evaluation of clinical information systems

    Andre W. Kushniruk;Vimla L. Patel

  • Knowledge based solution strategies in medical reasoning

    Vimla L. Patel;Guy J. Groen

  • Using usability heuristics to evaluate patient safety of medical devices

    Jiajie Zhang;Todd R. Johnson;Vimla L. Patel;Danielle L. Paige

  • The general and specific nature of medical expertise: A critical look.

    Vimla L. Patel;Guy J. Groen

  • Position paper: The coming of age of artificial intelligence in medicine

    Vimla L. Patel;Edward H. Shortliffe;Mario Stefanelli;Peter Szolovits

  • The multitasking clinician: Decision-making and cognitive demand during and after team handoffs in emergency care

    Archana Laxmisan;A. Forogh Hakimzada;Osman R. Sayan;Robert A. Green

  • Considering complexity in healthcare systems

    Thomas G. Kannampallil;Guido F. Schauer;Trevor Cohen;Vimla L. Patel

  • Detecting adverse events for patient safety research: a review of current methodologies

    Harvey J. Murff;Vimla L. Patel;George Hripcsak;David W. Bates

  • The relationship between comprehension and reasoning in medical expertise.

    Guy J. Groen;Vimla L. Patel

  • Emerging paradigms of cognition in medical decision-making

    Vimla L. Patel;David R. Kaufman;Jose F. Arocha

  • GLIF3: a representation format for sharable computer-interpretable clinical practice guidelines

    Aziz A. Boxwala;Mor Peleg;Samson Tu;Omolola Ogunyemi

  • Distributed cognition, representation, and affordance

    Jiajie Zhang;Vimla L. Patel

  • Comparing the effects of problem-based and conventional curricula in an international sample

    Henk Schmidt;W.D. Dauphinee;V.L. Patel

  • Faculty development in assessment: the missing link in competency-based medical education.

    Eric S. Holmboe;Denham S. Ward;Richard K. Reznick;Peter J. Katsufrakis

  • Usability in the real world: assessing medical information technologies in patient's homes

    David R. Kaufman;Vimla L. Patel;Charlyn Hilliman;Philip C. Morin

  • Effects of Conventional and Problem-Based Medical Curricula on Problem Solving.

    Vimla L. Patel;Guy J. Groen;Geoffrey R. Norman

  • Medical expertise asa function of task difficulty

    Vimla L. Patel;Guy J. Groen;José F. Arocha

  • Usability testing in medical informatics: cognitive approaches to evaluation of information systems and user interfaces.

    André Kushniruk;Vimla L. Patel;James J. Cimino

  • How experts' adaptations to representative task demands account for the expertise effect in memory recall: comment on Vicente and Wang (1998).

    K. Anders Ericsson;Vimla Patel;Walter Kintsch

  • A cognitive taxonomy of medical errors

    Jiajie Zhang;Vimla L. Patel;Todd R. Johnson;Edward H. Shortliffe

  • GLIF3: A Representation Format for Sharable Computer-Interpretable Clinical Practice

    Aziz A. Boxwala;Mor Peleg;Samson W. Tu;Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Cimino
James J. Cimino University of Alabama at Birmingham
Edward H. Shortliffe
Edward H. Shortliffe Columbia University
Andre Kushniruk
Andre Kushniruk University of Victoria
Suzanne Bakken
Suzanne Bakken Columbia University
Robert A. Greenes
Robert A. Greenes Arizona State University
Mor Peleg
Mor Peleg University of Haifa
Samson W. Tu
Samson W. Tu Stanford University
Mario Stefanelli
Mario Stefanelli University of Pavia
George Hripcsak
George Hripcsak Columbia University
Henk G. Schmidt
Henk G. Schmidt Erasmus University Rotterdam

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