Zoe Co – PhD student in the Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems (HILS) program at the University of Michigan

I am a first-year PhD student in the Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems (HILS) program at the University of Michigan.

Before starting my PhD, I was a project coordinator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where I primarily worked on the Leapfrog Group’s inpatient CPOE Evaluation Tool. This tool is used by over 2000 hospitals annually, and evaluates the ability of EHR systems to detect and prevent serious medication errors. My research related to this tool has been published in JAMIA and Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI).

Through my previous research experience and current PhD training, the overall goal of my research is to use implementation science and clinical informatics methods to further advance the effective uptake of clinical decision support (CDS) tool into practice. As patient care becomes further digitized, it is vital to continually evaluate and develop effective methods for integrating clinician feedback into the design of alerts, in the pursuit of preventing patient harm and promoting patient safety and quality.