A Jay Holmgren, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Holmgren is an expert on the use of information technology in health care delivery. Dr. Holmgren's research focuses on the impact of information technology on patients, clinicians, and health care organizations, and seeks to identify strategies to improve the quality and experience of care using digital tools. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including JAMA, Health Affairs, The American Journal of Public Health, Health Services Research, and JAMIA, and has been featured in popular press outlets including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Politico, and NPR.

• Consistency is key: documentation distribution and efficiency in primary care.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2024 Apathy NC, Biro J, Holmgren AJ
• Electronic Health Record Usability, Satisfaction, and Burnout for Family Physicians.
  JAMA network open 2024 Holmgren AJ, Hendrix N, Maisel N, Everson J, Bazemore A, Rotenstein L, Phillips RL, Adler-Milstein J
• Impact of response bias in three surveys on primary care providers' experiences with electronic health records.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2024 Hendrix N, Maisel N, Everson J, Patel V, Bazemore A, Rotenstein LS, Holmgren AJ, Krist AH, Adler-Milstein J, Phillips RL
• National Comparison of Ambulatory Physician Electronic Health Record Use Across Specialties.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2024 Holmgren AJ, Sinsky CA, Rotenstein L, Apathy NC
• Physicians in ACOs report greater documentation burden.
  The American journal of managed care 2024 Apathy NC, Patel V, Rolle TL, Holmgren AJ
• National trends in billing patient portal messages as e-visit services in traditional Medicare
  Health Affairs Scholar 2024 Liu T, Zhu, Z Holmgren AJ, Ellimoottil C
• National Trends in Billing Secure Messages as E-Visits.
  JAMA 2024 Holmgren AJ, Oakes AH, Miller A, Adler-Milstein J, Mehrotra A
• Changes in Physician Electronic Health Record Use With the Expansion of Telemedicine.
  JAMA internal medicine 2023 Holmgren AJ, Thombley R, Sinsky CA, Adler-Milstein J
• System-Level Factors and Time Spent on Electronic Health Records by Primary Care Physicians.
  JAMA network open 2023 Rotenstein LS, Holmgren AJ, Horn DM, Lipsitz S, Phillips R, Gitomer R, Bates DW
• Social and Medical Care Integration Practices Among Children's Hospitals.
  Hospital pediatrics 2023 Pantell MS, Holmgren AJ, Leary JC, Iott BE, Neuhaus J, Adler-Milstein J, Gottlieb LM
• COVID exacerbated the gender disparity in physician electronic health record inbox burden.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2023 Rotenstein L, Jay Holmgren A
• Ctrl-C: a cross-sectional study of the electronic health record usage patterns of US oncology clinicians.
  JNCI cancer spectrum 2023 Sinha S, Holmgren AJ, Hong JC, Rotenstein LS
• The role of organizations in shaping physician use of electronic health records.
  Health services research 2023 Cross DA, Holmgren AJ, Apathy NC
• Health Information Exchange: Understanding the Policy Landscape and Future of Data Interoperability.
  Yearbook of medical informatics 2023 Holmgren AJ, Esdar M, Hüsers J, Coutinho-Almeida J
• Variation in Family Physicians' Experiences Across Different Electronic Health Record Platforms: a Descriptive Study.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Hendrix N, Bazemore A, Holmgren AJ, Rotenstein LS, Eden AR, Krist AH, Phillips RL
• Behavioral "nudges" in the electronic health record to reduce waste and misuse: 3 interventions.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2023 Grouse CK, Waung MW, Holmgren AJ, Mongan J, Neinstein A, Josephson SA, Khanna RR
• Association Between Billing Patient Portal Messages as e-Visits and Patient Messaging Volume.
  JAMA 2023 Holmgren AJ, Byron ME, Grouse CK, Adler-Milstein J
• Investigating the Association Between Telemedicine Use and Timely Follow-Up Care After Acute Cardiovascular Hospital Encounters.
  JACC. Advances 2022 Tang M, Holmgren AJ, McElrath EE, Bhatt AS, Varshney AS, Lee SG, Vaduganathan M, Adler DS, Huckman RS
• Management Opportunities and Challenges After Achieving Widespread Health System Digitization.
  Advances in health care management 2022 Cross DA, Adler-Milstein J, Holmgren AJ
• Physician Note Composition Patterns and Time on the EHR Across Specialty Types: a National, Cross-sectional Study.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Rotenstein LS, Apathy N, Holmgren AJ, Bates DW
• Documentation dynamics: Note composition, burden, and physician efficiency.
  Health services research 2022 Apathy NC, Rotenstein L, Bates DW, Holmgren AJ
• Trends in US Hospital Electronic Health Record Vendor Market Concentration, 2012-2021.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Holmgren AJ, Apathy NC
• Association Between Electronic Health Record Time and Quality of Care Metrics in Primary Care.
  JAMA network open 2022 Rotenstein LS, Holmgren AJ, Healey MJ, Horn DM, Ting DY, Lipsitz S, Salmasian H, Gitomer R, Bates DW
• Assessing the impact of patient access to clinical notes on clinician EHR documentation.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2022 Holmgren AJ, Apathy NC
• Patient Safety Informatics: Criteria Development for Assessing the Maturity of Digital Patient Safety in Hospitals.
  Studies in health technology and informatics 2022 Kutza JO, Hübner U, Holmgren AJ, Esdar M
• Health Information Exchange and Interoperability
  Clinical Informatics Study Guide 2022 Dixon, BE, Holmgren, AJ, Adler-Milstein, J, Grannis, SJ
• Association between state-level malpractice environment and clinician electronic health record (EHR) time.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2022 Holmgren AJ, Rotenstein L, Downing NL, Bates DW, Schulman K
• Association of Hospital Interoperable Data Sharing With Alternative Payment Model Participation
  JAMA Health Forum 2022 Holmgren AJ, Everson JB, Adler-Milstein J
• The 21st Century Cures Act and Multiuser Electronic Health Record Access: Potential Pitfalls of Information Release.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2022 Arvisais-Anhalt S, Lau M, Lehmann CU, Holmgren AJ, Medford RJ, Ramirez CM, Chen CN
• Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinician ambulatory electronic health record use.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2022 Holmgren AJ, Downing NL, Tang M, Sharp C, Longhurst C, Huckman RS
• Growth in health information exchange with ACO market penetration.
  The American journal of managed care 2022 Apathy NC, Holmgren AJ, Werner RM
• Information system use antecedents of nursing employee turnover in a hospital setting.
  Health care management review 2022 Thompson SC, Holmgren AJ, Ford EW
• Assessing hospital electronic health record vendor performance across publicly reported quality measures.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2021 Holmgren AJ, Kuznetsova M, Classen D, Bates DW
• Association of Hospital Public Quality Reporting With Electronic Health Record Medication Safety Performance.
  JAMA network open 2021 Holmgren AJ, Bates DW
• The Increasing Role of Physician Practices as Bill Collectors: Destined for Failure.
  JAMA 2021 Holmgren AJ, Cutler D, Mehrotra A
• A decade post-HITECH: Critical access hospitals have electronic health records but struggle to keep up with other advanced functions.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2021 Apathy NC, Holmgren AJ, Adler-Milstein J
• Resident Physician Experience and Duration of Electronic Health Record Use.
  Applied clinical informatics 2021 Holmgren AJ, Lindeman B, Ford EW
• Differences in Clinician Electronic Health Record Use Across Adult and Pediatric Primary Care Specialties.
  JAMA network open 2021 Rotenstein LS, Holmgren AJ, Downing NL, Longhurst CA, Bates DW
• Differences in Total and After-hours Electronic Health Record Time Across Ambulatory Specialties.
  JAMA internal medicine 2021 Rotenstein LS, Holmgren AJ, Downing NL, Bates DW
• Hospital organizational strategies associated with advanced EHR adoption.
  Health services research 2021 Holmgren AJ, Phelan J, Jha AK, Adler-Milstein J
• The Development and Piloting of the Ambulatory Electronic Health Record Evaluation Tool: Lessons Learned.
  Applied clinical informatics 2021 Co Z, Holmgren AJ, Classen DC, Newmark LP, Seger DL, Cole JM, Pon B, Zimmer KP, Bates DW
• Assessment of Electronic Health Record Use Between US and Non-US Health Systems.
  JAMA internal medicine 2021 Holmgren AJ, Downing NL, Bates DW, Shanafelt TD, Milstein A, Sharp CD, Cutler DM, Huckman RS, Schulman KA
• Barriers to hospital electronic public health reporting and implications for the COVID-19 pandemic: the authors' reply.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2020 Holmgren AJ, Apathy NC, Adler-Milstein J
• Barriers to hospital electronic public health reporting and implications for the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2020 Holmgren AJ, Apathy NC, Adler-Milstein J
• The tradeoffs between safety and alert fatigue: Data from a national evaluation of hospital medication-related clinical decision support.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2020 Co Z, Holmgren AJ, Classen DC, Newmark L, Seger DL, Danforth M, Bates DW
• A History of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the United States: Political Appeal and Public Health Efficacy.
  American journal of public health 2020 Holmgren AJ, Botelho A, Brandt AM
• Evaluation of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Integration With Hospital Electronic Health Records by US County-Level Opioid Prescribing Rates.
  JAMA network open 2020 Holmgren AJ, Apathy NC
• Design and testing of a mobile health application rating tool.
  NPJ digital medicine 2020 Levine DM, Co Z, Newmark LP, Groisser AR, Holmgren AJ, Haas JS, Bates DW
• National Trends in the Safety Performance of Electronic Health Record Systems From 2009 to 2018.
  JAMA network open 2020 Classen DC, Holmgren AJ, Co Z, Newmark LP, Seger D, Danforth M, Bates DW
• Opt-in consent policies: potential barriers to hospital health information exchange.
  The American journal of managed care 2020 Apathy NC, Holmgren AJ
• Hospital adoption of API-enabled patient data access.
  Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019 Holmgren AJ, Apathy NC
• Assessing the safety of electronic health records: a national longitudinal study of medication-related decision support.
  BMJ quality & safety 2019 Holmgren AJ, Co Z, Newmark L, Danforth M, Classen D, Bates D
• Assessing the impact of health system organizational structure on hospital electronic data sharing.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2018 Holmgren AJ, Ford EW
• Participation in a Voluntary Bundled Payment Program by Organizations Providing Care After an Acute Hospitalization.
  JAMA 2018 Holmgren AJ, Adler-Milstein J, Chen LM
• Are all certified EHRs created equal? Assessing the relationship between EHR vendor and hospital meaningful use performance.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2018 Holmgren AJ, Adler-Milstein J, McCullough J
• Electronic health record adoption in US hospitals: the emergence of a digital "advanced use" divide.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2017 Adler-Milstein J, Holmgren AJ, Kralovec P, Worzala C, Searcy T, Patel V
• Progress In Interoperability: Measuring US Hospitals' Engagement In Sharing Patient Data.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2017 Holmgren AJ, Patel V, Adler-Milstein J
• Health Information Exchange in US Hospitals: The Current Landscape and a Path to Improved Information Sharing.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Holmgren AJ, Adler-Milstein J
• A Novel Survey to Examine the Relationship between Health IT Adoption and Nurse-Physician Communication.
  Applied clinical informatics 2016 Holmgren AJ, Pfeifer E, Manojlovich M, Adler-Milstein J
• US hospital engagement in core domains of interoperability.
  The American journal of managed care 2016 Holmgren AJ, Patel V, Charles D, Adler-Milstein J