Dean Sittig, PhD

Dean F. Sittig is a Professor Emeritus in the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, TX. He received his PhD in Medical Informatics from the University of Utah. His research interests center on the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of all aspects of clinical information and communication systems with a special emphasis on electronic health records and clinical decision support. He has spent his career working to improve our understanding of both the factors that lead to success, as well as, the unintended consequences associated with various forms of health information technology. He has spent considerable time studying various aspects of computer-based provider order entry with clinical decision support, including factors that lead to success as well as the unintended consequences of their use. Most recently, he has focused his efforts on developing guidelines for the safe and effective implementation and use of electronic health records (EHRs) that are based on an 8-dimension socio-technical model that he developed with Hardeep Singh. This work led to the development of the SAFER guides that were designed to help healthcare organizations conduct proactive risk assessments of their EHRs. He occasionally serves as an expert witness in legal matters that involve analysis of EHRs. He recently co-authored the following books, “Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer's Guide, Second Edition”, “Improving Medication Use and Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support”, “Clinical Information Systems: Overcoming Adverse Consequences”, “Electronic Health Records: Challenges in Design and Implementation” and most recently “SAFER Electronic Health Records: Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience”.

For a listing of most of Dean F. Sittig’s peer-reviewed scientific articles
see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1LEad2guGRFAa/bibliography/public/