Dean F. Sittig

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Dean F. Sittig
Dean F Sittig
Born(1961-03-02)March 2, 1961
EducationPennsylvania State University (B.S., M.S.)
University of Utah School of Medicine (Ph.D.)
EmployerUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Known forClinical informatics
SpouseJoAnn Kaalaas-Sittig
Children1
Websitecircleinformatics.org

Dean Forrest Sittig (born March 2, 1961) is an American biomedical informatician specializing in clinical informatics. He is a professor in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston[1] and Executive Director of the Clinical Informatics Research Collaborative (CIRCLE).[2] Sittig was elected as a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics in 1992,[3] the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society in 2011, and was a founding member of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics in 2017.[4] Since 2004, he has worked with Joan S. Ash, a professor at Oregon Health & Science University to interview several Pioneers in Medical Informatics,[5] including G. Octo Barnett, MD,[6] Morris F. Collen, MD,[7] Donald E. Detmer, MD,[8] Donald A. B. Lindberg, MD,[9] Nina W. Matheson, ML, DSc,[10] Clement J. McDonald, MD,[11] and Homer R. Warner, MD, PhD.[12]

Education[edit]

Sittig earned a bachelor's degree in science and a master's degree in biomedical engineering before he trained in medical informatics at the University of Utah School of Medicine and the LDS Hospital under Reed M. Gardner and Homer R. Warner.[13] His dissertation was entitled, “COMPAS: A Computerized Patient Advice System to Direct Ventilatory Care."[14] He won the 1987 Martin Epstein Award[15] at the Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (now the American Medical Informatics Association) for this work.

Research[edit]

His research focuses on understanding the sociotechnical risks of, and solutions to address, unintended consequences associated with design, development, implementation, and use of various health information technologies (HIT),[16] including computer-based provider order entry, clinical decision support within electronic health records (EHRs), and most recently in EHR-related patient safety. Along with Hardeep Singh, he developed an “8-dimension socio-technical model for safe and effective HIT implementation and use”.[17] A modification of the model was used by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM),[18] in a sentinel event report from the Joint Commission,[19] and the National Quality Forum to describe the socio-technical challenges associated with measuring HIT safety.[20] This model has also been used in a variety of HIT-related research studies including: identification of keys to implementing novel clinical prediction algorithms,[21] exploring barriers to implementation of clinical information systems in nursing homes,[22] development of a childhood cancer passport for care,[23] and development of a questionnaire regarding EHR-related safety concerns.[24]

Sittig has published over 600 scientific articles[25] and 6 books.[26] (h-index = 82[27]).

Honors and awards[edit]

In 1992 he was elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI).[28] In 2017 he was elected an Inaugural Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI).[29] In 2019 he was elected a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).[30] In 2023 he won the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Donald Eugene Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics.[31]

Personal life[edit]

Dean F. Sittig is married to Joann Kaalaas-Sittig.[32]

Books and representative papers[edit]

  1. Sittig DF, Singh H. (2012) Electronic health records and national patient-safety goals. N Engl J Med. 367(19):1854-60. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsb1205420. PMID 23134389
  2. Sittig DF, Singh H. (2010) A new sociotechnical model for studying health information technology in complex adaptive healthcare systems. Qual Saf Health Care. Suppl 3:i68-74. doi: 10.1136/qshc.2010.042085. PMID 20959322
  3. Sittig DF, Singh H. (2009) Eight rights of safe electronic health record use. JAMA. 302(10):1111-3. doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.1311. PMID 19738098
  4. Wright A, Henkin S, Feblowitz J, McCoy AB, Bates DW, Sittig DF. (2013) Early results of the meaningful use program for electronic health records. N Engl J Med. 368(8):779-80. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1213481. PMID 23425186
  5. Singh H, Spitzmueller C, Petersen NJ, Sawhney MK, Sittig DF. (2013) Information overload and missed test results in electronic health record-based settings. JAMA Intern Med. 173(8):702-4. doi: 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.61. PMID 23460235
  6. Sittig DF, Krall M, Kaalaas-Sittig J, Ash JS. (2005) Emotional aspects of computer-based provider order entry: a qualitative study. J Am Med Inform Assoc.12(5):561-7. PMID 15905478
  7. Sittig DF, Pace NL, Gardner RM, Beck E, Morris AH. (1989) Implementation of a computerized patient advice system using the HELP clinical information system. Comput Biomed Res. 22(5):474-87. PMID 2776450
  8. Sittig DF, Wright A, Osheroff JA, Middleton B, Teich JM, Ash JS, Campbell E, Bates DW. Grand challenges in clinical decision support. J Biomed Inform. 2008 Apr;41(2):387-92. PMID 18029232
  9. Sittig DF, Singh H. (2011) Defining health information technology-related errors: new developments since to err is human. Arch Intern Med. 171(14):1281-4. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.327. PMID 21788544
  10. Sittig DF. (2002) Personal health records on the internet: a snapshot of the pioneers at the end of the 20th Century. Int J Med Inform. 65(1):1-6. PMID 11904243

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Few U.S. hospitals can fully share electronic medical records". www.reuters.com/. October 2, 2017.
  2. ^ "CIRCLE Leadership". circleinformatics.org/.
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  4. ^ "International Medical Informatics Association establishes the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics". IMIA. June 6, 2017.
  5. ^ "Medical Informatics Pioneers". lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov.
  6. ^ "From Farm Boy to Director of the Laboratory of Computer Science 2004 Interview of Octo Barnett" (PDF). lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov.
  7. ^ "Engineering Computerized Multiphasic Health Screening 2005 Interview with Morris F. Collen" (PDF). lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov.
  8. ^ "Fostering Health Policy and the Biomedical Informatics Profession 2006 Interview of Don Detmer" (PDF). lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov.
  9. ^ "At the Helm of the World's Largest Biomedical Library 2005 Interviews of Donald A.B. Lindberg" (PDF). lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov.
  10. ^ "The Woman Behind the NLM's Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) Initiative 2005 Interview of Nina Matheson" (PDF). lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov.
  11. ^ "Everything Electronic Medical Records: Systems, Standards and Studies 2004 Interview of Clem McDonald" (PDF). lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov.
  12. ^ "Founder of the HELP System and the Utah Medical Informatics Program 2005 Interview of Homer R. Warner, Sr" (PDF). lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov.
  13. ^ "Dean Sittig, PhD". University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
  14. ^ Sittig, Dean F (1988). COMPAS: a computerized patient advice system to direct ventilatory care (Thesis). University of Utah.
  15. ^ "AMIA Annual Symposium Student Paper Competition | AMIA". www.amia.org.
  16. ^ Sittig, Dean F.; Ash, Joan S. (2009). Clinical Information Systems: Overcoming Adverse Consequences. Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN 978-0763757649.
  17. ^ Sittig, Dean F.; Singh, Hardeep (2011). "A New Socio-technical Model for Studying Health Information Technology in Complex Adaptive Healthcare Systems". Qual Saf Health Care. Suppl 3:i (Suppl 3): 68–74. doi:10.1136/qshc.2010.042085. PMC 3120130. PMID 20959322.
  18. ^ Committee on Patient Safety Health Information Technology; Institute Of, Medicine (2012). Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care. National Academy of Medicine. doi:10.17226/13269. ISBN 978-0-309-22112-2. PMID 24600741.
  19. ^ "Safe use of health information technology" (PDF). Sentinel Event Alert. The Joint Commission. 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  20. ^ "Identification and Prioritization of Health IT Patient Safety Measures". National Quality Forum. 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  21. ^ Benda, Natalie C; Tanmoy Das, Lala; Abramson, Erika L; Blackburn, Katherine; Thoman, Amy; Kaushal, Rainu; Zhang, Yongkang; Ancker, Jessica S (2020). ""How did you get to this number?" Stakeholder needs for implementing predictive analytics: a pre-implementation qualitative study". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 27 (5): 709–716. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocaa021. PMC 7647269. PMID 32159774.
  22. ^ Or, Calvin; Dohan, Michael; Tan, Joseph (2014). "Understanding Critical Barriers to Implementing a Clinical Information System in a Nursing Home Through the Lens of a Socio-Technical Perspective". Journal of Medical Systems. 38 (99): 99. doi:10.1007/s10916-014-0099-9. PMID 25047519. S2CID 18238404.
  23. ^ Poplack, David G; Fordis, Michael; Landier, Wendy; Bhatia, Smith; Hudson, Melissa M; Horowitz, Marc E (2014). "Childhood cancer survivor care: development of the Passport for Care". Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. 11 (12): 740–750. doi:10.1038/nrclinonc.2014.175. PMC 5142740. PMID 25348788.
  24. ^ Palojoki, Sari; Pajunen, Tuuli; Saranto, Kaija; Lehtonen, Lasse (2016). "Electronic Health Record-Related Safety Concerns: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Electronic Health Record Users". JMIR Medical Informatics. 4 (2): e13. doi:10.2196/medinform.5238. PMC 4890731. PMID 27154599.
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  28. ^ "Dean F. Sittig, PhD, FACMI". Archived from the original on 2020-08-19. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
  29. ^ "International Medical Informatics Association establishes the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics". 6 June 2017.
  30. ^ "Fellows of AMIA – 2019 Inductees".
  31. ^ "Dean Sittig, PhD named 2023 AMIA Signature Award winner". 12 November 2023.
  32. ^ "Donna Kaalaas". Rockford Register Star. September 15, 2007. Retrieved April 10, 2020.