HSR&D Center for Health Information and Communication (CHIC)
Michael Weiner, MD MPH
Chief, Health Services Research and Development
Principal Investigator, VA HSR&D Center for Health Information and Communication
Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine
Director, Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research
Director, Center for Health Services Research, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
Dr. Weiner’s professional interests are health services research, geriatrics, and health informatics. At Indiana University Geriatrics, he founded the gero-informatics program, which under his leadership focused on leveraging health information technologies to improve the care of older adults. In 2003, Dr. Weiner was awarded the Outstanding Researcher Award from the Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine. His clinical and health-services research is focused on measuring and improving the quality, coordination, and delivery of health services for older adults. He also studies the effects of health information and information technology on physicians' practices and patients' outcomes. Dr. Weiner has conducted studies of specialty referral, patient-physician videoconferencing, and other forms of telecommunication to improve healthcare. Current research includes development, implementation, and study of information systems to promote clinical handoffs, management of medications, patient-centered geriatrics care, and clinical decision support.
PUBLICATIONS
Weiner M. The potential of crowdsourcing to improve patient-centered care. The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research 2014; 7(2):123-7. Available at <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40271-014-0051-6> (27 March 2014).
Russ AL, Zillich AJ, Melton B, Russell SA, Chen S, Spina J, Weiner M, Johnson E, Daggy JK, McManus MS, Hawsey J, Puleo A, Doebbeling BN, Saleem JJ. Applying human factors principles to alert design increases efficiency and reduces prescribing errors in a scenario-based simulation. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2014 (October); 21:e287–e296. First published online: 01 October 2014. Available at <http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002045>.
Melton BL, Zillich AJ, Weiner M, McManus MS, Spina JR, Russ AL. Alerts for low creatinine clearance: design strategies to reduce prescribing errors. Proc AMIA Symp 2014; 85 (November).
Dixon BE, Haggstrom DA, Weiner M. Implications for informatics given expanding access to care for Veterans and other populations. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2015 (July); 22(4):917-920. First published online: 01 April 2015. Available at <http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocv019>.
Russ AL, Chen S, Melton BL, Saleem JJ, Weiner M, Spina JR, Daggy JK, Zillich AJ. Design and evaluation of an electronic override mechanism for medication alerts to facilitate communication between prescribers and pharmacists. Ann Pharmacother 2015 (July); 49(7):761-769. Available at <http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1060028015581678>.
Russ AL, Chen S, Melton BL, Johnson EG, Spina JR, Weiner M, Zillich AJ. A novel design for drug-drug interaction alerts improves prescribing efficiency. Joint Comm Journal on Qual and Pat Safety 2015 (September); 41(9):396-405.
Nicolaidis C, Raymaker D, Ashkenazy E, Mcdonald K, Boiscliar WC, Baggs AEV, Kapp S, Weiner M, Dern S. Respect the way I need to communicate with you: healthcare experiences of adults on the autism spectrum. Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice 2015 (September); 19(7):824-831. Available at <http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361315576221>.
Melton BL, Zillich AJ, Russell SA, Weiner M, McManus MS, Spina, JR, Russ AL. Reducing prescribing errors through creatinine clearance alert redesign. American Journal of Medicine 2015 (October); 128(10):1117-1125. French DD, Dixon BE, Perkins SM, Myers LJ, Weiner M, Zillich AJ, Haggstrom DA. Short term medical costs of a VA health information exchange: a CHEERS-compliant article. Medicine 2016 (January); 95(2):e2481.
Parker C, Weiner M, Reeves M. Health information exchanges--unfulfilled promise as a data source for clinical research. Int J Med Inform 2016 (March); 87:1-9.
Wagner TH, Burstin H, Frakt AB, Krein SL, Lorenz K, Maciejewski ML, Pizer SD, Weiner M, Yoon J, Zulman DM, Asch SM. Opportunities to enhance value-related research in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. J Gen Int Med 2016; [in press].
