Certificate in Usability and User Experience in Health Care 

offered by The Ohio State University

Dr. Garvin is currently the Division Director and Associate Professor in the Health Information Management and Systems Division in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. She develops applied informatics tools and methods to advance clinical and public health practice. She is currently a VA Research Health Scientist and an Affiliated Investigator as well with Center for Health Information and Communication at the Richard L. Roudebush VAMC, Indianapolis, IN. In terms of clinical practice, she and her team develop natural language processing tools to improve care for chronic systolic heart failure in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Dr. Patterson’s research on bar code medication administration and clinical reminders was identified by the Association for Healthcare Research and Quality, the VA, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society as seminal in identifying negative unintended consequences associated with the implementation of health information technology. Her direction is to improve the efficiency, usability, and accuracy of clinical documentation in electronic health records by care providers in hospitals and outpatient clinics by applying human factors methodologies such as workflow analysis, cognitive task analysis, and usability evaluations. In addition, she is interested in preventing unintended use of networked information technologies by improving defensive strategies for cyber-attacks.