Patricia Abbott
Co-Director of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing Knowledge, Information Management, & Sharing
Academic Degrees
Departmental Address
525 N Wolfe St Rm 415
Baltimore, MD
Research and Professional Experience
ICT Usability/User-Centered Design/Human Factors; ICT in Low Resource Areas; Informatics; Distributed E-Learning/Knowledge Management; Capacity Building
Keywords
Informatics; mHealth/eHealth, Human Factors, User-Centered Design, Usability (all in ICT); Electronic Communities of Practice in Low-Resource Areas; Informatics Education; Connectionist Machine Learning Techniques; Data Mining;Knowledge Discovery in Large Databases.
Honors and Awards
2011-2012 US Department of Commerce; National Institutes of Science & Technology (NIST). Advisor & Co-Editor: Usability to the Certification Standards Team for National Electronic Health Record Systems. NISTIR 7804.
2010-2012 National Quality Forum (NQF). Appointee: National Health Information Technology Advisory Council (HITAC); Co-developer - National Quality Data Model (QDM).
2011-2012 Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, (OCDE), European Commission. Expert Advisor – Benchmarking adoption and use of information technologies in the health sector.
2011 European Commission, German Marshall Fund, and U.S. Mission to the EU. Expert Advisor - with William Kennard, US Ambassador to EU. “e-Innovation in Healthcare.” Brussels.
2010 Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research. Appointee: AHRQ Technical Expert Panel (TEP) for Transforming Healthcare Quality Through Information Technology (THQIT).
2010 European Union - US Representative to the ARGOS e-Health Project (Translatlantic Observatory for Meeting Global Health Policy Challenges Through ICT-Enabled Solutions).
2010 The Institute of Medicine (IOM). Expert Testifier - Committee on Envisioning a Strategy to Prepare for the Long-Term Burden of HIV/AIDS: African Needs and U.S. Interests. February, 2010.
2010: National Quality Forum (NQF) – appointed to National Health Information Technology Advisory Council. (HITAC)
2010: Agency for Healtcare Quality and Research - Appointed, AHRQ Technical Expert Panel (TEP) for Transforming Healthcare Quality Through Information Technology (THQIT).
2010-11: US Representative to the ARGOS e-Health Project (Translatlantic Observatory for Meeting Global Health Policy Challenges Through ICT-Enabled Solutions). Funded by the European Union (France, US, Germany, & Italy)
2010: Expert Testimony: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee on Envisioning a Strategy to Prepare for the Long-Term Burden of HIV/AIDS: African Needs and U.S. Interests. February, 2010.
2009: Agency for Health Care Quaility and Research (AHRQ) – Appointed to HITEP Technical Expert Panel –Evaluation of AHRQ’s THQIT (Transforming Healthcare Quality Through Information Technology) research program.
2009: Department of Health and Human Services – Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology – “Defining Core Requirements for National Decision Support Systems”; September, 2009.
2009: National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine– “Defining Core Competancies for the Health Informatics Workforce”; August, 2009.
2009: Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research – Think Tank/National Expert. “National Policy on Clinical Decision Support” with Partners HealthCare, Yale University School of Medicine, NORC at the University of Chicago, and the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health. March, 2009.
Rockefeller Foundation - Bellagio Center "Global e-health Policy", July 2008.
The Rector’s High Honors Award – University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia. January, 2007.
Appointment to the National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine - Advisory Board for Healthcare Informatics. 2006.
Inducted into the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI); November 2003
Nominated as the UM School of Nursing Candidate for University Wide “Outstanding Teacher Award”, 2002
Inducted into the American Academy of Nursing; November, 2000
Inducted Phi Kappa Phi, 2000
Recipient of the American Medical Informatics Association Presidents Award, 1999, 1998, and 1997
Co-recipient of the American Medical Informatics Association Presidents Club Award, 1996
Maryland Nurses Association “Outstanding Pathfinder Award,” 1994-1995
Selected Publications
Abbott, P. (2012). Effectiveness and Clinical Usability of a Handheld Information Appliance. Nursing
Research and Practice. Hindawi. Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 307258. Accessed 4/3/2012 at: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/nrp/2012/307258/
Poe, S., Abbott, P., & Pronovost, P. (2011). Building Nursing Intellectual Capital for Safe Use of Information Technology: A Before-After Study to Test an Evidence-Based Peer Coach Intervention. Journal of Nursing Care Quality.
Sockolow PS, Lehmann HP, Bowles KH, Abbott PA, Weiner JP. (In press). Advice for Decision Makers Based on an Electronic Health Record Evaluation at a Program for All-inclusiveCare for Elders Site. Applied Clinical Informatics. DOI 10.4338/ACI-2010-09-RA-0055
Karsh, B., Weinger, M., Abbott, P., Wears, R. (2010). Health Information Technology: fallacies and sober realities. JAMIA 2010;17:617-623
Lori, J., Ortiz, D., Oyarzo, S., Abbott, P., Land, S. (2010). Developing Nursing and Midwifery Communities of Practice for Making Pregnancy Safer. Journal of Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2 (2). Hong Kong.
Effken, J. & Abbott, P. (2009). The Nursing Role in Health IT-enabled Care Management in Rural, Frontier, and other Underserved Populations. Commissioned White Paper - Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. May, 2009.
Pelligrini,A., Abbott, P., Mons, B., Al-Shorbaji, N., Gondwe, M., Packer, A. (in press). Access to Information and Knowledge: a Social Determinant of Health. Rockefeller Press: Monograph. New York.
Taylor, L., Abbott, P. & Hudson, K. (2008). Using E-Learning for Workforce Development. International Journal of Medical Informatics.
Abbott, P. & Coenen, A. (2008). Globalization and advances in information and communication technologies: The impact on nursing and health. Nursing Outlook, 56(5), 238-246.
Abbott, P., Blatt, M., French, J. (2007). Evaluating the usability of a mobile clinical computing device. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 11, 856.
Abbott, P. & Klapper, S. (in press). Human-Computer Interaction Concepts – Implications for Use in Pediatric Clinical Care. Lehman, C., & Kim, G. (Eds) Pediatric Informatics, New York: Springer-Verlag.
Abbott, P. & Taylor, L. (February, 2007). The Role of Health Information Technology in Improving Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety. Hospital Engineering and Facilities Management 2007; the Fifth Official Report of the International Federation of Hospital Engineering (IFHE). Touch Briefings, London.
Lehman, H., Abbott, P., Roderer, N., Rothschild, A., Mandell, S., Ferrer, J., & Miller, R. (Eds.) (2006). Aspects of the Electronic Health Record Systems (2nd ed). Springer Verlag, NY.
Abbott, P. (2006). Foreward. E-Health and Medical IT Solutions. Touch Briefings. London.
Cato, J., & Abbott, P. (2006). Collaborating for a cause. Studies in Technologies in Informatics, 122:1014-5.
Lee, Sun Mi, Abbott, P, & Johantgen, M. (2005). A Comparison of Logistic Regression and Bayesian Networks for Outcomes Research in Large Datasets. Nursing Research. Mar-Apr; 54(2):133-8.
Lee, Sun Mi & Abbott, P (2003). Bayesian networks for knowledge discovery in large datasets: basics for nurse researchers. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 36, pp 389-399.
