Publications

Development of an evidence- and consensus-based Digital Healthcare Equity Framework. 2024. JAMIA Open. 

Enhancement of a social risk score in the electronic health record to identify social needs among medically underserved patients: using structured data and free-text provider notes. 2024. JAMIA Open. 

Validation of an algorithm to prioritize patients for comprehensive medication management in primary care settings. 2024. IJCP.

Assessing racial bias in healthcare predictive models: Practical lessons from an empirical evaluation of 30-day hospital readmission models. 2024. Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

Development of a hospital coding intensity measure based on sepsis diagnoses. 2024. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 

Patterns of Morbidity Across the Lifespan: A Population Segmentation Framework for Classifying Health Care Needs for All Ages. 2024. Medical Care. 

Development of a Social Risk Score in the Electronic Health Record to Identify Social Needs Among Underserved Populations: Retrospective Study. 2024. JMIR

Evaluating Algorithmic Bias in 30-Day Hospital Readmission Models: Retrospective Analysis. 2024. JMIR. 

Association of buprenorphine retention and subsequent adverse outcomes following non-fatal overdose: An analysis using statewide linked Maryland databases. 2024. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 

Prevalence of Lifestyle-Related Behavioral Information in Claims Data in the U.S. 2023. Preventative Medicine.

Identifying Predictors of Nursing Home Admission by Using Electronic Health Records and Administrative Data: Scoping Review. 2023. JMIR Aging. 

Ownership and Interoperability Challenges of Alzheimer Monoclonal Antibody Registries. 2023. JAMA Neurology. 

Health Disparities in Lapses in Diabetic Retinopathy Care. 2023. Ophthalmology Science. 

Latent Class Analysis of Social Needs in Medicaid Population and Its Impact on Risk Adjustment Models. 2023. Medical Care.

Prevalence and Correlates of Opioid-Involved Suicides in Maryland. 2023. Archives of Suicide Research.

Application of natural language processing to identify social needs from patient medical notes: development and assessment of a scalable, performant, and rule-based model in an integrated healthcare delivery system. 2023. JAMIA Open.

Assessing Patient and Community-Level Social Factors; The Synergistic Effect of Social Needs and Social Determinants of Health on Healthcare Utilization at a Multilevel Academic Healthcare System. 2023. Journal of Medical Systems.

Trends and Patterns of Social History Data Collection Within an Electronic Health Record. 2023. Population Health Management.

Development and assessment of a natural language processing model to identify residential instability in electronic health records’ unstructured data: a comparison of 3 integrated healthcare delivery systems. 2022. Jamia Open. 

Assessing the Added Value of Vital Signs Extracted from Electronic Health Records in Healthcare Risk Adjustment Models. 2022. Risk Management and Healthcare Policy.

Impact of Social Needs in Electronic Health Records and Claims on Healthcare Utilization and Costs Risk-Adjustment Models Within Medicaid Population. 2022. Population Health Management. 

Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Improving the LACE Index for 30-Day Unplanned Readmission Prediction. 2022. Jamia Open.

Automated Patient Self-Scheduling: Case Study. 2022. JAMIA. 

Comparing Person-Level Matching Algorithms to Identify Risk Across Disparate Datasets Among Patients With a Controlled Substance Prescription: Retrospective Analysis. 2022. JAMIA Open.

Outcomes of In-Person and Telehealth Ambulatory Encounters During COVID-19 Within a Large Commercially Insured Cohort. 2022. JAMA Netw Open. 

Comparing and Validating Medication Complexity from Insurance Claims Against Electronic Health Records. 2022. J Manag Care Spec Pharm.

Assessing the Added Value of Blood Pressure Information Derived from Electronic Health Records in Predicting Healthcare Cost and Utilization. 2021. Population Health Management.

Internet Access, Social Risk Factors, and Web-Based Social Support Seeking Behavior: Assessing Correlates of the “Digital Divide” Across Neighborhoods in The State of Maryland. 2021. J Med Syst.

Development of Measurable Criteria to Identify and Prioritize Patients for Inclusion in Comprehensive Medication Management Programs within Primary Care Settings. 2021. JMCP.

Differential Impact of Mitigation Policies and Socioeconomic Status on COVID-19 Prevalence and Social Distancing in the United States. 2021. BMC Public Health. 

Assessing the Impact of Social Needs and Social Determinants of Health on Healthcare Utilization: Using Patient-and Community-Level Data. 2021. Population Health Management. 

Social and Behavioral Variables in the Electronic Health Record: A Path Forward to Increase Data Quality and Utility. 2021. Population Health Management.

In-Person and Telehealth Ambulatory Contacts in a Large US Insured Cohort Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2021. JAMA Network Open.

Comparing the Predictive Effects of Patient Medication Adherence Indices in Electronic Health Record and Claims-Based Risk Stratification Models. 2021. Population Health Management.

Early Relaxation of Community Mitigation Policies and Risk of COVID-19 Resurgence in the United States. 2021. Preventative Medicine.

Performance of a Predictive Model versus Prescription-Based Thresholds in Identifying Patients at Risk of Fatal Opioid Overdose. 2021. Substance Use & Misuse. 

Geriatric Syndrome Risk Factors Among Hospitalized Postacute Medicare Patients. 2020. AJMC.

The Impact of Various Risk Assessment Time Frames on the Performance of Opioid Overdose Forecasting Models. 2020. Medical Care.

Integrating E-Prescribing and Pharmacy Claims Data for Predictive Modeling: Comparing Costs and Utilization of Health Plan Members Who Fill Their Initial Medications with Those Who Do Not. 2020. JPMC.

Assessing the Impact of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Characteristics on COVID-19 Prevalence Across Seven States in the United States. 2020. Frontiers.

Including Social and Behavioral Determinants in Predictive Models: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities. 2020. JMIR.

A Revised Classification Algorithm for Assessing Emergency Department Visit Severity of Populations. 2020. AJMC.

Predictors of Overdose Death Among High-Risk Emergency Department Patients With Substance-Related Encounters: A Data Linkage Cohort Study. 2020. Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Opioid Agonist Treatment And Fatal Overdose Risk In A State-Wide US Population Receiving Opioid Use Disorder Services. 2020. Addiction.

Characterizing Inpatient Hospitalizations for Hidradenitis Suppurativa In The United States. 2020. JAAD.

Healthcare Costs and Utilization among Patients Hospitalized for Malignant Pleural Effusion. 2020. Respiration.

Health Education Serious Games Targeting Health Care Providers, Patients, and Public Health Users: Scoping Review. 2020. JMIR.

Use of Opioid Overdose Deaths Reported in One State’s Criminal Justice, Hospital, and Prescription Databases to Identify Risk of Opioid Fatalities. 2019. JAMA Internal Medicine.

A Predictive Risk Model for Nonfatal Opioid Overdose In A Statewide Population Of Buprenorphine Patients. 2019. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Assessing the Availability of Data on Social and Behavioral Determinants in Structured and Unstructured Electronic Health Records: A Retrospective Analysis of a Multilevel Health Care System. 2019. JMIR Medical Informatics.

Integrating Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health into Population Health Analytics: A Conceptual Framework and Suggested Road Map. 2019. Population Health Management.

Exploring the Use Of Machine Learning For Risk Adjustment: A Comparison Of Standard And Penalized Linear Regression Models In Predicting Health Care Costs In Older Adults. 2019. PloS one.

Identifying Vulnerable Older Adult Populations By Contextualizing Geriatric Syndrome Information In Clinical Notes Of Electronic Health Records. 2019. JAMIA.

Comorbidity Characterization Among eMERGE Institutions: A Pilot Evaluation with the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups® System. 2019. AMIA.

Comparing Survey-Based Frailty Assessment to Medicare Claims in Predicting Health Outcomes and Utilization in Medicare Beneficiaries. 2019. Journal of Aging and Health.

A Public Health Perspective On Using Electronic Health Records To Address Social Determinants Of Health: The Potential For A National System Of Local Community Health Records In The United States. 2019. International Journal of Medical Informatics.

Methods and Risks of Bias in Natural Experiments in Obesity: Opportunities for the Future Informed by a Systematic Review. 2019. Obesity.

Discovering the Unclassified Suicide Cases Among Undetermined Drug Overdose Deaths Using Machine Learning Techniques. 2019. Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior.

Assessing the Availability of Data on Social and Behavioral Determinants in Structured and Unstructured Electronic Health Records: A Retrospective Analysis of a Multilevel Health Care System. 2019. JMIR.

Comparing the Trends of Electronic Health Record Adoption Among Hospitals of the United States and Japan. 2019. Journal of Medical Systems.

Evaluation of Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Pediatric Trauma Care Using EHR Data. 2019. JAMIA.

Extraction of Geriatric Syndromes from Electronic Health Record Clinical Notes: Assessment of Statistical Natural Language Processing Methods. 2019. JMIR.

The Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Hospitalization in the Veterans Health Administration. 2019. American Journal of Preventative Medicine.

The PsyTAR Dataset: From Patients Generated Narratives To A Corpus Of Adverse Drug Events And Effectiveness Of Psychiatric Medications. 2019. Data Brief.

A Systematic Approach for Developing A Corpus Of Patient Reported Adverse Drug Events: A Case Study For SSRI And SNRI Medications. 2019. Journal of Biomedical Informatics.

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