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Faculty Profile

Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNSc
Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Address:
617 W 168 St.
Rm. 227
New York, NY 10032

Phone: 212-305-1278
Fax: 212-305-6937

sbh22@columbia.edu

Education and Training
PhD 1987 University of Maryland
MS 1977 Boston University


Affiliations

School of Nursing
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Center for Evidence-based Practice in the Underserved


Training Activities

Program Director, Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics
Program Director, Informatics for Evidence-based NP Practice
Faculty Member, Biomedical Informatics Training Program


Collaborations
Harlem Health Promotion Center
UCSF HIV/AIDS Nursing Research Network
Nursing Terminology Summit

International Collaborations
International Council of Nurses/International Medical Informatics Association – Nursing Special Interest Group: Development of an International Standard Organization (ISO) standard for a nursing reference terminology model.


School of Nursing Faculty
Research Summary
Program of research is at the intersection of informatics, evidence-based nursing practice, and underserved populations. Primary interests include decision support systems, mobile computing, natural language processing, and use of web-based approaches for interactive health communication in underserved populations.

Service Interests
Current research projects involve the use of informatics tools for a variety of purposes including natural language processing of nursing narratives, interactive health communication, data mining, patient safety, meeting clinicians’ information needs, and decision support.

Selected Publications
1. Hripcsak G, Bakken S, Stetson PD, Patel VL. Mining complex clinical data for patient safety research: a framework for event discovery. J Biomed Inform. 2003 Feb-Apr;36(1-2):120-30.

2. Hwang, J., Cimino JJ, Bakken, S. Integrating Nursing Diagnostic Concepts into the Medical Entities Dictionary Using the ISO Reference Terminology Model for Nursing Diagnosis. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2003;10(4):382-8

3. Stone, P.W., Curran, C.R., & Bakken, S. Evaluation of studies of health economics. Evidence Based Nursing. 2002 5(4):100-4.

4. Bakken, S. Biodefense and nursing informatics. American Journal of Nursing 2002; 102(9):79-80.

5. Hwang, J., Park, Y-A., & Bakken, S. Impact of a physician's order entry (POE) system on physicians' ordering patterns and patient length of stay. International Journal of Medical Informatics 2002; 68(3):213-23.

6. Cashen, M.S., Sklar, B.M., Nguyen, H.H.T., Just, M., & Bakken, S. Implementing a web-based information resources at an inner city community church: Lessons learned. Computers Informatics Nursing 2002;20(6)244-250.

 

 

Current Projects

1. Center for Evidence-based Practice in the Underserved
The goal of this project is to establish an administrative core and pilot study core to support research related to evidence-based practice in underserved populations.
National Institute of Nursing Research
2001-2004

2. Mining Complex Clinical Data for Patient Safety Research
The project represents a unique opportunity to apply the most advanced medical language processing system to a large, comprehensive clinical repository to advance patient safety research.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
2001-2004

3. Using Infobuttons to Improve Clinicians' Access to Information
The goal of this project is to design, implement, and evaluate context-specific Infobuttons in order to improve clinicians' access to information at the point of clinical need.
National Library of Medicine
2002-2004

4. Using Narrative Data to Enrich the Online Medical Record

The goal of this project is to use informatics approaches to improve the quality of the narrative in the electronic health record.
National Library of Medicine
2002-2005

5. An Internet-based Information Technology to Reduce Prescription Errors with HIV/AIDS Anti-Retroviral Medications
The goal of this project is to create a web-based decision support system (HIVTIPS) to assist with management of HAART regimens in HIV/AIDS.
HRSA SPNS IT Initiative
Role: Co-investigator

2003-2007

Recently Completed Projects

1. Nurse-managed Outpatient HIV/AIDS Adherence Intervention Trial
This RCT is testing the impact of a structured nursing intervention on adherence, viral load, and viral resistance.
Role: originally Co-PI with change to consultant as of 7/1/00 move to Columbia University.
National Institute of Nursing Research
1999-2003

2. Coding and Classification Systems for Ambulatory Care
This descriptive study examined the vocabulary needs of MDs and NPs in ambulatory AIDS care.

National Institute of Nursing Research
1998-2000


Honors and Awards

1991-1992 National Library of Medicine, Post-doctoral Fellowship, Medical Informatics, Stanford University
1995 Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
1997 Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics
1997 Teacher of the Year awarded by the Master of Science Class, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
2000 Winner, Harriet H. Werley Award for paper making the greatest contribution to advance the field of nursing informatics, American Medical Informatics Association
2002 Alumni Professor Endowed Chair, Columbia University School of Nursing
2002 Fifth Annual Recognition Award for Advancement of Computer Technology in Healthcare, Rutgers The State University, College of Nursing
2002 Winner, Harriet H. Werley Award for paper making the greatest contribution to advance the field of nursing informatics, American Medical Informatics Association

Committees

2002-03 Committee on Patient Safety Data Standards, Institute of Medicine
1996-present International Journal of Medical Manuscript Reviewer
Informatics
1997-present Journal of American Medical Editorial Board (1997-2002)
Informatics Association Manuscript Reviewer (2002-)
2001-present Journal of Biomedical Informatics Editorial Board
2003-present Medical Care Manuscript Reviewer
2003-present American College of Medical Executive Committee
Informatics
1999-present American Academy of Nursing Expert Panel, Quality and Safety
2001-present American Academy of Nursing Expert Panel, Nursing Informatics

Keywords: informatics, computers, underserved populations, evidence-based practice, nursing

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