Mailing address
Not in Residence
677 Huntington Avenue
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA, 02115
Website
Ashish Jha
Faculty Affiliate, Information and Communications Technology and Public Policy Project
Contact:
Telephone: 617.432.5551
Email: ajha@hsph.harvard.edu
Website: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/ashish-jha/
Experience
Ashish Jha is the C. Boyden Gray Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health. He is a practicing general internist with a clinical focus on hospital care. A major theme of his research is using information technology among other tools as potential solutions for reducing medical errors and disparities while improving over-all quality.
February 2012
"Use of UpToDate and Outcomes in US Hospitals"
Journal Article, Journal of Hospital Medicine, issue 2, volume 7
By Thomas Isaac, Jie Zheng and Ashish Jha, Faculty Affiliate, Information and Communications Technology and Public Policy Project
UpToDate is one of the most widely used computerized clinical knowledge management systems in the nation. The authors found a very small but consistent association between use of UpToDate and reduced length of stay, lower risk-adjusted mortality rates, and better quality performance, at least in the smaller, non-teaching institutions. These findings may suggest that computerized tools such as UpToDate could be helpful in improving care
