Sue S Feldman

Sue S Feldman
Professor

Professor (P), Health Services Administration , School of Health Professions 2016 -
Program Director, M.S. in Health Informatics Program , Health Services Administration 2016 -
Scientist (C), UAB Center for Study of Community Health , School of Public Health 2019 -
Senior Scientist (C), Informatics Institute , School of Medicine 2020 -
Professor (S), Dept of Medical Education , School of Medicine 2020 -

Overview

Sue Feldman is the Director of Graduate Programs in Health Informatics and teaches in the Clinical Informatics program, the Master of Science in Health Informatics program, and in the PhD program in the School of Health Professions. She has a dual appointment in the School of Medicine and is a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Community Health at UAB.

Dr. Feldman is a Commissioner on the Health Informatics Accreditation Council for CAHIIM (Commission for Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management) where she chairs accreditation site visits.

As a Registered Nurse (RN) for over 30 years, she brings a unique clinical and informatics blend to everything she does, grounding policy and theory with practice. Dr. Feldman has published in a variety of top-tier peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and served as program chair for several national forums, and more recently authored a textbook chapter on the intersection of health informatics and quality in safety as well as served as editor for a special issue journal on the topic.

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year	Title	Altmetric
2020	Health Information Technology Adoption and Clinical Performance in Federally Qualified Health Centers. Journal for Healthcare Quality. 42:287-293. 2020
2020	Toward understanding the value of missing social determinants of health data in care transition planning. Applied Clinical Informatics. 11:556-563. 2020
2020	Healthcare Research and Analytics Data Infrastructure Solution (HRADIS): A Data Warehouse for Health Services Research. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2020
2020	Enhancing Transitions From Rehabilitation Patient to Wellness Participant for People With Disabilities: An Opportunity for Hospital Community Benefit. Frontiers in Public Health. 8. 2020
2020	Health information exchange: What matters at the organizational level? 2020
2020	Assessment of Patient Satisfaction With Dermatology Clinics According to Clinic Type: Mixed Methods Study 2020
2020	Health informatics, healthcare quality and safety, and healthcare simulation: continuing the discussion to advance healthcare operations. Health Systems. 9:1. 2020
2020	Impact of Provider Prior Use of HIE on System Complexity, Performance, Patient Care, Quality and System Concerns 2020
2019	Development of a computerized paediatric intensive care unit septic shock pathway: improving user experience. Health Systems. 8:155-161. 2019
2019	Introduction to “health informatics, healthcare quality and safety, and healthcare simulation: the new triad to advance healthcare operations”. Health Systems. 8:153-154. 2019
2019	The emerging literature for the triad of health informatics, healthcare quality and safety, and healthcare simulation. Health Systems. 8:215-227. 2019
2019	Training leaders for a culture of quality and safety. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance Incorporating Leadership in Health Services. 32:251-263. 2019
2019	Consumer perceptions of health IT utilization and benefits.. JAMIA Open. 2:99-106. 2019
2019	Erratum: Figure correction: Health information technology in healthcare quality and patient safety: Literature review(JMIR Med Inform. (2018)6:2(e10264) DOI: 10.2196/10264). Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21. 2019
2019	Predictors of weight change: Findings from an employee wellness program. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 10. 2019
2018	Health information technology in healthcare quality and patient safety: Literature review. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 20. 2018
2018	An early model for value and sustainability in health information exchanges: Qualitative study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 20. 2018
2017	Automating hIM through health information exchange: An informatics approach. Journal of AHIMA / American Health Information Management Association. 88:32-35. 2017
2016	Interstate health-information exchange: understanding value propositions and challenges. Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Health. 69-69. 2016
2015	Forming a Physician Led Accountable Care Organization: From Application to Implementation. American Journal of Accountable Care. 3. 2015
2014	Health information exchange implementation: Lessons learned and critical success factors from a case study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 16:e19. 2014
2013	Understanding the value proposition of health information exchange: the case of uncompensated care cost recovery. Health Systems. 2:134-146. 2013
2012	Development of a Disability Employment Information System: An Information Systems Design Theory Approach. e-Service Journal. 8:57-57. 2012
2011	Collaboration in electronic medical evidence development: A case study of the Social Security Administration's MEGAHIT System. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 80. 2011
2011	Health cyberinfrastructure for collaborative use-inspired research and practice. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 40. 2011
2011	Cyberinfrastructure for Public Health and Health Services: Toward Use-Inspired Research and Practice Collaboration. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 40:108-114. 2011
2011	Information systems for disability determination: A multi-stakeholder assessment of electronic medical evidence needs and processes. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. 29:325-344. 2011
2011	The dynamics of information collaboration: A Case study of blended IT value propositions for health information exchange in disability determination 2011
2009	The prospective role of personal health records in streamlining and accelerating the disability determination process. Disability and Health Journal. 2:153-157. 2009
2008	Web evaluation at the US National Institutes of Health: Use of the American customer satisfaction index online customer survey. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 10. 2008
2008	Closing a Life-Threatening Gap. Advance for HealthCare Executives. 12. 2008
2008	Evaluating the AMIA-OHSU 10x10 program to train healthcare professionals in medical informatics.. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium. 182-186. 2008
2007	Evaluating the AMIA-OHSU 10x10 program to train health care professionals.. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium. 953. 2007
	Healthcare Research and Analytics Data Infrastructure Solution: A Data Warehouse for Health Services Research (Preprint)

Book

Year	Title	Altmetric
2012	Public-Private Interorganizational Sharing of Health Data for Disability Determination 2012

Chapter

Year	Title	Altmetric
2020	Accreditation of Health Informatics Programs 2020
2020	Applied Informatics for Health IT Managers (in press) 2020
2020	Baccalaureate Health Informatics Education (in press) 2020
2016	Engaging and Sustaining Stakeholders: Towards Governance. 59-76. 2016
2016	Health Information Exchange-The Value Proposition: A Case Study of the US Social Security Administration. 333-349. 2016

Research Overview

Research interests include anything having to do with health information systems. Dr. Feldman's research focuses on a user-centered and design science approach to designing, building, and evaluating all levels of health information systems from fitness trackers to more global health information systems.

Principal Investigator On

HelpBeatCOVID19 Symptom Tracker awarded by KAY FAMILY FOUNDATION 2020 - 2022

DCARIS-OPS: A Data Collection and Reporting Information System for Opioid Peer Support Specialists awarded by ALABAMA MEDICAID AGENCY 2019 - 2021

Teaching Overview

Courses taught or currently teaching (at UAB):
HI 686--Leadership Theory and Practice (Graduate Core) – University of Alabama at Birminham
HI 725--Health Information Systems Theory and Practice (HI PhD Track Core) – University of Alabama at Birmingham (course development and teaching)
HI 654/664--Capstone Course (Graduate Core) – University of Alabama at Birmingham (course development and teaching)
AH 780--Health Information Systems (AH PhD Elective) – University of Alabama at Birmingham, PhD
HI 685--Principles in Health Informatics (Graduate Core) – University of Alabama at Birmingham, Clinical Informatics Certificate and MSHI (course development and teaching)