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Department of Biomedical Informatics
School of Medicine and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Research and Scholarly Projects

Our CI fellows have made a significant impact in the field of Clinical Informatics and research.

Publications

  1. Wong R, Lam E, Bramante CT, et al. Does COVID-19 Infection Increase the Risk of Diabetes? Current Evidence. Curr Diab Rep. Published online June 7, 2023:1-10.
  2. Reddy NV, Yeh HC, Tronieri JS, et al. Are fewer cases of diabetes mellitus diagnosed in the months after SARS-CoV-2 infection? A population-level view in the EHR-based RECOVER program. J Clin Transl Sci. 2023;7(1):e90.
  3. Alpi KM, Martin CL, Plasek JM, et al. Characterizing terminology applied by authors and database producers to informatics literature on consumer engagement with wearable devices. J Am Med Inform Assoc. Published online May 18, 2023. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocad082
  4. Luo J, Wong R, Mehta T, et al. Implementing real-time prescription benefit tools: Early experiences from 5 academic medical centers. Healthc (Amst). 2023;11(2):100689.
  5. Leese P, Anand A, Girvin A, et al. Clinical encounter heterogeneity and methods for resolving in networked EHR data: a study from N3C and RECOVER programs. J Am Med Inform Assoc. Published online April 22, 2023. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocad057
  6. Reddy NV, Yeh HC, Tronieri JS, et al. Are fewer cases of diabetes mellitus diagnosed in the months after SARS-CoV-2 infection? medRxiv. Published online December 4, 2022. doi:10.1101/2022.12.02.22283029
  7. Pfaff ER, Madlock-Brown C, Baratta JM, et al. Coding Long COVID: Characterizing a new disease through an ICD-10 lens. medRxiv. Published online September 2, 2022. doi:10.1101/2022.04.18.22273968
  8. Hadley E, Yoo YJ, Patel S, et al. SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection is Preceded by Unique Biomarkers and Related to Initial Infection Timing and Severity: an N3C RECOVER EHR-Based Cohort Study. medRxiv. Published online January 5, 2023. doi:10.1101/2023.01.03.22284042
  9. Casiraghi E, Wong R, Hall M, et al. A method for comparing multiple imputation techniques: a case study on the U.S. National COVID Cohort Collaborative. J Biomed Inform. Published online January 27, 2023:104295.
  10. Wong R, Mehta T, Very B, et al. Where Do Real-Time Prescription Benefit Tools Fit in the Landscape of High US Prescription Medication Costs? A Narrative Review. Journal of General Internal Medicine. Published online 2022. doi:10.1007/s11606-022-07945-z
  11. Wong R, Vaddavalli R, Hall MA, et al. Effect of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Infection Severity on Longer-Term Glycemic Control and Weight in People With Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2022;45(11):2709-2717.
  12. Lyu W, Dong X, Wong R, et al. A Multimodal Transformer: Fusing Clinical Notes with Structured EHR Data for Interpretable In-Hospital Mortality Prediction. arXiv [csCL]. Published online August 9, 2022. http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10240
  13. Wong R, Hall M, Vaddavalli R, et al. Glycemic Control and Clinical Outcomes in US Patients With COVID-19: Data From the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Database. Diabetes Care. Published online 2022. https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article-abstract/doi/10.2337/dc21-2186/144605
  14. Geospatial distribution and predictors of mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a cohort study. In: Open Forum Infectious Diseases. Vol 7. Oxford University Press US; 2020:ofaa436.
  15. Jawa RS, Tharakan MA, Tsai C, et al. A reference guide to rapidly implementing an institutional dashboard for resource allocation and oversight during COVID-19 pandemic surge. JAMIA Open. 2020;3(4):518-522.
  16. Rashidian S, Abell-Hart K, Hajagos J, et al. Detecting Miscoded Diabetes Diagnosis Codes in Electronic Health Records for Quality Improvement: Temporal Deep Learning Approach. JMIR Med Inform. 2020;8(12):e22649.

Oral Presentations

  1. Rana D, Fisher A, Wong R, Mellin A, Del Rio D, Macchio R, Lingam V. Understanding Clinical Workflows: Leveraging Journey Maps to Contextualize Prior Authorizations at an Academic Cancer Center. 2024 AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference.
  2. Patel, T, Hajagos J, Lingam V, Wong R, Damaghi M, Kurc T, Saltz M, Saltz J. Development of a Multi-Modal Breast Cancer Research Data Warehouse: What this Clinical Informaticist Learned. 2024 AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference.
  3. Ung L, Kurc T, Lingam V, Saltz J, Saltz M, Heslin S, Morley E. Predicting Patients Boarding in the Emergency Department using Open-source Time Series Forecasting Libraries.
  4. Luo J, Crotty B, Epstein J, Schwartz J, Wong R. “But Doc…How Much is that Going to   Cost Me?” How Clinicians and Trainees Can Use Tech-Based Tools to Help Patients Access Lower Cost Prescription Drugs. Workshop Oral, National SGIM 2021 Virtual Meeting.
  5. Garcia V, Hajagos J, Abell-Hart K, Deng J, Tsai C, Lingam L, Saltz M, Saltz J, Tassiopoulos A. Aortic Aneurysm: Informatics Driven Detection, Risk Stratification and Treatment, 2020 AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference.
  6. Rashidian S, Wang F, Moffitt R, Garcia V, Dutt A, Chang W, Pandya V, Hajagos J, Saltz M, Saltz J. “Smooth-GAN: Towards Sharp and Smooth Synthetic EHR Data Generation”. AIME 2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine long presentation, Aug 2020.

Poster Presentations

  1. Keck E, Hall M, Anand A, Sinha S, Patel T, Rana D, Gold S, Wong R, Lehmann H, Moffitt R. A Standard Operating Procedure for Concept Set Creation in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C), 2023 AMIA Symposium, New Orleans, LA.
  2. Patel S, Yoo Y, Wong R, Stathakos K, Mahmud W, Kameleswaran R, Neumann J, Moffitt R, Chapman S. Methodological Quality Checks for OMOP Drug Concept Set Creation, 2023 AMIA Symposium, New Orleans, LA.
  3. Soff S, Yoo Y, Wong R, Hall M, Vaddavalli R, Moffitt R. Paradoxical Trend of Post Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) in Type 2 Diabetes, 2023 American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting, San Diego, CA.
  4. Wong R, Mehta T, Schwartz J, Epstein J, Smith E, Kashyup N, Woreta F, Crotty B, Feterik K, Fliotsos M, Luo J. Implementing Real-Time Prescription Benefit Tools: Early Experiences at 5 Academic Centers, 2021 AMIA Symposium, San Diego, CA.
  5. Rajupet S, Wong R, Moller D, Maldonado L, Kurc T, Hajagos J, Shah H, Saltz M, Saltz J, Lingam V. Informatics to Power Post-COVID Care: A Framework for Patient Care and Secondary Data Use, 2021 AMIA Symposium, San Diego, CA.
  6. Lingam V, Garcia V, Tsai C, Wooldridge J, Wong R. Integrating Gaming into Virtual Medication Reconciliation Education, 2021 AMIA Symposium, San Diego, CA.