David Bates (born June 5, 1957) is an American physician, biomedical informatician, and professor, known for his work regarding the use of health information technology (HIT) to improve the safety and quality of healthcare, in particular by using clinical decision support.[1] Bates has done work in the area of medication safety. He began by describing the epidemiology of harm caused by medications, first in hospitalized patients[2] and then in other settings such as the home[3] and nursing homes.[4][5]

David W. Bates
BornJune 5, 1957 (1957-06-05) (age 67)
EducationStanford University
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Oregon Health Sciences University
OccupationPhysician
Known forComputerized physician order entry, clinical decision support system, health information technology
Websitewww.patientsafetyresearch.org
www.partners.org/cqa/

Early life and education

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David Westfall Bates was born on June 5, 1957, in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, although he grew up in Tucson, Arizona. In high school, he worked as a computer programmer before attending college at Stanford University, where he earned his B.S. in 1979. He received an M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1983,[1] and did his residency from 1983 to 1986 at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. From 1988 to 1990, Bates did a fellowship in general internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his M.Sc. from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1990.[6]

Career

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Bates is the chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the medical director of clinical and quality analysis for information systems at Mass General Brigham. He is also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a professor of health policy and management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He was chief quality officer and senior vice president of Brigham and Women's from 2011 to 2014. He was appointed chief innovation officer in October 2014 to 2016, and he directs the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice there. He is the director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded Health Information Technology Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (HIT-CERT) and the Patient Centered Learning Lab (PSLL) at the Brigham Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice.[6] He is editor of the Journal of Patient Safety.[5]

Awards and honors

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Advisory activities

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Bates has served as the chair of the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act workgroup[16] and the board chair of the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association.[1] He served as the external program lead for research in the World Health Organization's Alliance for Patient Safety from 2006-2015 and was a member of the U.S.'s HIT Policy Committee through 2016.[6] In addition, Bates was the president of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare.[17]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Bates, David W. (2005). "DAVID WESTFALL BATES, MD: a conversation with the editor on improving patient safety, quality of care, and outcomes by using information technology". Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center). 18 (2): 158–164. doi:10.1080/08998280.2005.11928056. PMC 1200718. PMID 16200166.
  2. ^ Bates, David W.; Cullen, David J.; Laird, Nan; Peterson, Laura A.; Small, Stephen D.; Servi, Deborah; Laffel, Glenn; Sweitzer, Bobbie J.; Shea, Brian F.; Hallisey, Robert; Vander Vilet, Martha; Nemeskal, Roberta; Leape, Lucian L.; Bates, David; Hojnowski-Diaz, Patricia; Petrycki, Stephen; Cotugno, Michael; Patterson, Heather; Hickey, Mairead; Kleefield, Sharon; Cooper, Jeffrey; Kinneally, Ellen; Demonaco, Harold J.; Dempsey Clapp, Margaret; Gallivan, Theresa; Ives, Jeanette; Porter, Kathy; Thompson, Taylor; Hackman, J. Richard; Edmondson, Amy (1995). "Incidence of adverse drug events and potential adverse drug events: implications for prevention". JAMA. 274 (1): 29–34. doi:10.1001/jama.1995.03530010043033. PMID 7791255.
  3. ^ Gandhi, Tejal K; Weingart, Saul N; Borus, Joshua; Seger, Andrew C; Peterson, Josh; Burdick, Elisabeth; Seger, Diane L; Shu, Kirstin; Federico, Frank; Leape, Lucian L; Bates, David W (April 17, 2003). "Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care". The New England Journal of Medicine. 348 (16): 1556–1564. doi:10.1056/NEJMsa020703. PMID 12700376.
  4. ^ Gurwitz, Jerry H; Field, Terry S; Avorn, Jerry; McCormick, Danny; Jain, Shailavi; Eckler, Marie; Benser, Marcia; Edmondson, Amy C; Bates, David W (August 2000). "Incidence and preventability of adverse drug events in nursing homes". The American Journal of Medicine. 109 (2): 87–94. doi:10.1016/S0002-9343(00)00451-4. PMID 10967148.
  5. ^ a b c d "Bio: David W. Bates, MD, MSC". The Center For Patient Safety Research and Practice. Partners HealthCare. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
  6. ^ a b c d Bates, David Westfall. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Hampden-Sydney College. Kuwait Health Sciences Center. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
  7. ^ "2013 - 2002 Award Recipients" (PDF). The Joint Commission: Eisenberg Award. The Joint Commission. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
  8. ^ "Board of Directors Award of Honor". American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
  9. ^ "John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research". SGIM. The Society of General Internal Medicine. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
  10. ^ "ACP Announces New Masters and Awardees for 2009". ACP Online. American College of Physicians. Archived from the original on June 11, 2014. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
  11. ^ "Call For Nominations 2014 Signature Awards". AMIA.org. The American Medical Informatics Association. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
  12. ^ "The AAMI Foundation's Laufman-Greatbatch Award". AAMI.org. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation. Archived from the original on October 25, 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
  13. ^ "THE ROBERT J. GLASER AWARD". SGIM.org. The Society of General Internal Medicine. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
  14. ^ "Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence". Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  15. ^ "Glaser Society - Glaser Society".
  16. ^ "FDASIA". HealthIT.gov. Health Information Technology. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
  17. ^ "Our People: Prof. David Bates". ISQua. The International Society for Quality in Healthcare. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
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