Recent Work

Publications from the CAIR Group

• Effect of Tailored Coaching on Physicians’ Electronic Health Record Proficiency and User Experience: A Randomized Crossover Study. Khairat S, Chourasia P, Kwong E, Choi, J, Seashore C. (2023)
• Patient and Provider Recommendations for Improved Telemedicine User Experience in Primary Care: A Multi-Center Qualitative Study. Khairat S, Chourasia P, Muellers K, 5 Katerina Andreadis, K, Lin, J, Ancker, S. (2023).
• Factors and Reasons Associated with Low COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Highly Hesitant Communities in the US. Khairat, S, Zou, B, Adler-Milstein, J. (2022).
• Implementation and Evaluation of a Telemedicine Program for Specialty Care in North Carolina Correctional Facilities. Khairat, S, Bohlmann A, Wallace E, Lakdawala A, Edson B; Catlett, T L, Dorn S. (2021).
• Physician Experiences of Screen-Level Features in a Prominent Electronic Health Record: Design Recommendations from a Qualitative Study. Khairat S, Coleman C, Teal R, Rezk S, Rand V, Bice T, Carson S S. (2021).
• Association between ICU Interruptions and Physicians Trainees’ Electronic Health Records Efficiency. Khairat S, Metwally E, Coleman C, James E, Eaker S, Bice T. (2021).
• Evaluation of Patient Experience During Virtual and In-Person Urgent Care Visits: Time and Cost Analysis. Khairat S, Lin X, Liu S, Man Z, Zaman T, Edson B, Gianforcaro R. (2021).
• Association of Electronic Health Record Use With Physician Fatigue and Efficiency (2020)
• Lower EHR satisfaction can impact the well-being of nurses (2020)
• Interpreting COVID-19 and Virtual Care Trends: Cohort Study (2020)
• Factors Determining Patients’ Choice Between Mobile Health and Telemedicine: Predictive Analytics Assessment. Khairat S, Liu S, Zaman T, Edson B, Gianforcaro R.“ (2019).
• A Mixed-Methods Evaluation Framework for Electronic Health Records Usability Studies. Khairat S, Coleman C, Newlin T, Rand V, Ottmar P, Bice T, Carson SS. (2019).
• A usability and safety analysis of electronic health records: a multi-center study 
• Perceived Burden of EHRs on Physicians at Different Stages of Their Career. S Khairat, G Burke, H Archambault, T Schwartz, J Larson, RM Ratwani. (05/18)
• The Impact of Visualization Dashboards on Quality of Care and Clinician Satisfaction: Integrative Literature Review. Khairat S, Dukkipati A, Lauria HA, Bice T, Travers D, Carson SS. (05.2018)
• Assessing the Status Quo of EHR Accessibility, Usability, and Knowledge Dissemination. Khairat S, Coleman C, Russomagno, Gotz D. (5/2018)
• Reasons For Physicians Not Adopting Clinical Decision Support Systems: Critical Analysis. Khairat S, Marc D, Crosby W, Al Sanousi A. (4/18)
• Assessing the Satisfaction of Citizens Using Teleconsent in Clinical Research. Newlin T, McCall T, Ottmar P, Welch B, Khairat S. (4/18)
• Predicating Consumer Effort in Finding and Paying for Health Care: Expert Interviews and Claims Data Analysis.        Long S, Monsen K, Pieczkiewicz D, Wolfson J, Khairat S. (11/17)

Professional Activities

• The AMA invites Dr. Khairat as an expert panelist on the Integrated Health Model Initiative (IHMI) panel discussion.
• The American Medical Association (AMA) has featured a new study by Dr. Khairat.
• Dr. Khairat Usability and Safety work featured in Politico.
• Dr. Khairat: “Struggles with EHR create frustration among physicians“.
• The Clinical Innovation magazine has featured the CAIR articles on CDSS and Visualization in two different entries.
• CAIR Group Member Karthik Adapa is a member of the SCALE 2.0 project which has received AEA’s Outstanding Evaluation Award.

  https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/ramaswamy-others-at-gillings-school-part-of-award-winning-evaluation-team/

• Congratulations to Karthik Adapa on having been offered the “Doctoral Merit Assistantship” by the UNC Graduate School and also on having received the “UNC Gillings Public Health Award”.

Presentations by the CAIR Group

• Terika McCall, PhD student, gave a talk titled “Attitudes and Perceptions of Black Women Toward Using Mobile Technologies to Receive Mental Health Services to Manage Anxiety and Depression” at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) meeting in Nashville, TN.
• “Improving Postpartum Depression Screening and Referral in the Pediatric Setting” will be presented by Samantha Russomagno, BSN, RN, CPN at the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP), 39th National Conference on March 19-22, 2018. This was also presented at the  University of North Carolina Health Care Nursing Quality and Research Conference “Driving Excellence in Patient Care Meeting on April 20, 2018.
• “Novel Mixed-Methods Analysis of EHR-Related Information Overload on Provider Workflow in the ICU” will be presented by Victoria Rand and Dr. Cam Coleman at the 2018 Medical Informatics in Europe Conference on April 24-26, 2018 in Sweden.
• “Assessing Citizens’ Satisfaction with Teleconsent for Clinical Research Studies” will be presented by Thomas Newlin, Terika McCall, and Paige Ottmar as a full presentation at the 2018 Medical Informatics in Europe Conference in Sweden on April 24-26, 2018.
• “Classifying Provider-EHR Screen Interactions During ICU Pre-Rounds” and “Towards Understanding the Impact of EHR-Related Information Overload on Provider Cognition” presented by Victoria Ran at the 16th International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology (ICIMTH) in Healthcare in Athens, Greece, on July 6-8, 2018.