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Adam Wright among 13 Fellows Inducted into American College of Medical Informatics

Following their recent election, 13 new Fellows, including our own Adam Wright, PhD, will be inducted into the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) on Nov. 15 at ceremonies during the AMIA 2015 Annual Symposium. AMIA’s Annual Symposium is the premier educational event in the field. The symposium presents leading-edge […]


Cross-vendor evaluation of key user-defined clinical decision support capabilities: A scenario-based assessment of certified electronic health records with guidelines for future development

Objective Clinical decision support (CDS) is essential for delivery of high-quality, cost-effective, and safe healthcare. The authors sought to evaluate the CDS capabilities across electronic health record (EHR) systems. Methods We evaluated the CDS implementation capabilities of 8 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Authorized Certification Body […]


As congressional action looms, eminent informaticists define EHR interoperability

Fortunately, it looks as though we may have the basis of a definition of “open records,” aka interoperability, from two noted medical informaticians, Dean Sittig, professor of biomedical informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston; and Adam Wright, a senior scientist in the general medicine division […]


HISTalk: Defining Our Terms: Does Anyone Know What an “Open EHR” Really Is?

A JAMIA article by Dean Sittig and Adam Wright proposes use cases of exactly what determines whether a given EHR is “open” or “interoperable,” which hopefully will squelch the bleating of robotic vendor CEOs who insist on abusing the term to mean “whatever we’re selling at the moment.” The authors […]