A Jay Holmgren

Assistant Professor

Dr. A Jay Holmgren is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine and the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research (CLIIR).

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.
Education
2022 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
PhD, 05/2021 - Health Policy, Harvard University
MHI, 05/2017 - Health Informatics, University of Michigan
BA, 05/2011 - History, University of Michigan
Honors and Awards
  • Best Young Researcher, Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA), 2023
  • NIH Loan Repayment Program Award, National Library of Medicine, 2022-2024
  • Best Paper Award, Medical Informatics Europe, 2022
  • Best Student Paper, Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA), 2020
  • Partners in Excellence Award, Brigham & Women's Hospital, 2019
  • Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction and Excellence in Teaching, Harvard College, 2018
Websites
Publications

  1. Liu T, Zhu, Z Holmgren AJ, Ellimoottil C. National trends in billing patient portal messages as e-visit services in traditional Medicare Health Affairs Scholar. 2024. PMID:


  2. Holmgren AJ, Oakes AH, Miller A, Adler-Milstein J, Mehrotra A. National Trends in Billing Secure Messages as E-Visits. JAMA. 2024. PMID: 38198195


  3. Holmgren AJ, Thombley R, Sinsky CA, Adler-Milstein J. Changes in Physician Electronic Health Record Use With the Expansion of Telemedicine. JAMA internal medicine. 2023. PMID: 37902737


  4. Rotenstein LS, Holmgren AJ, Horn DM, Lipsitz S, Phillips R, Gitomer R, Bates DW. System-Level Factors and Time Spent on Electronic Health Records by Primary Care Physicians. JAMA network open. 2023. PMID: 37991757


  5. Pantell MS, Holmgren AJ, Leary JC, Iott BE, Neuhaus J, Adler-Milstein J, Gottlieb LM. Social and Medical Care Integration Practices Among Children's Hospitals. Hospital pediatrics. 2023. PMID: 37718963


  6. Rotenstein L, Holmgren AJ. COVID Exacerbated the Gender Disparity in Physician Electronic Health Record Inbox Burden. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2023. PMID: 37436709


  7. Sinha S, Holmgren AJ, Hong JC, Rotenstein LS. Ctrl-C: A Cross-Sectional Study of the EHR Usage Patterns of US Oncology Clinicians. JNCI cancer spectrum. 2023. PMID: 37688578


  8. Cross DA, Holmgren AJ, Apathy NC. The role of organizations in shaping physician use of electronic health records. Health services research. 2023. PMID: 37438938


  9. Holmgren AJ, Esdar M, Hüsers J, Coutinho-Almeida J. Health Information Exchange: Understanding the Policy Landscape and Future of Data Interoperability. Yearbook of medical informatics. 2023. PMID: 37414031


  10. Hendrix N, Bazemore A, Holmgren AJ, Rotenstein LS, Eden AR, Krist AH, Phillips RL. Variation in Family Physicians' Experiences Across Different Electronic Health Record Platforms: a Descriptive Study. Journal of general internal medicine. 2023. PMID: 36952084


  11. Grouse CK, Waung MW, Holmgren AJ, Mongan J, Neinstein A, Josephson SA, Khanna RR. Behavioral "nudges" in the electronic health record to reduce waste and misuse: 3 interventions. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2022. PMID: 36519951


  12. Holmgren AJ, Byron ME, Grouse CK, Adler-Milstein J. Association Between Billing Patient Portal Messages as e-Visits and Patient Messaging Volume. JAMA. 2023. PMID: 36607621


  13. Tang M, Holmgren AJ, McElrath EE, Bhatt AS, Varshney AS, Lee SG, Vaduganathan M, Adler DS, Huckman RS. Investigating the Association Between Telemedicine Use and Timely Follow-Up Care After Acute Cardiovascular Hospital Encounters. JACC Advances. 2022. PMID: 36620529


  14. Cross DA, Adler-Milstein J, Holmgren AJ. Management Opportunities and Challenges After Achieving Widespread Health System Digitization. Advances in health care management. 2022. PMID: 36437617


  15. Rotenstein LS, Apathy N, Holmgren AJ, Bates DW. Physician Note Composition Patterns and Time on the EHR Across Specialty Types: a National, Cross-sectional Study. Journal of general internal medicine. 2022. PMID: 36418647


  16. Apathy NC, Rotenstein L, Bates DW, Holmgren AJ. Documentation dynamics: note composition, burden, and physician efficiency. Health services research. 2022. PMID: 36342001


  17. Holmgren AJ, Apathy NC. Trends in US Hospital Electronic Health Record Vendor Market Concentration, 2012-2021. Journal of general internal medicine. 2022. PMID: 36348217


  18. Rotenstein LS, Holmgren AJ, Healey MJ, Horn DM, Ting DY, Lipsitz S, Salmasian H, Gitomer R, Bates DW. Association Between Electronic Health Record Time and Quality of Care Metrics in Primary Care. JAMA network open. 2022. PMID: 36255725


  19. Holmgren AJ, Apathy NC. Assessing the impact of patient access to clinical notes on clinician EHR documentation. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2022. PMID: 35831954


  20. Kutza JO, Hübner U, Holmgren AJ, Esdar M. Patient Safety Informatics: Criteria Development for Assessing the Maturity of Digital Patient Safety in Hospitals. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2022. PMID: 35612236


  21. Dixon, BE,
    Holmgren, AJ,
    Adler-Milstein, J,
    Grannis, SJ. Health Information Exchange and Interoperability 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2022. PMID:


  22. Holmgren AJ, Rotenstein L, Downing NL, Bates DW, Schulman K. Association between state-level malpractice environment and clinician electronic health record (EHR) time. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2022. PMID: 35271723


  23. Holmgren AJ,
    Everson JB,
    Adler-Milstein J. Association of Hospital Interoperable Data Sharing With Alternative Payment Model Participation 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2022. PMID:


  24. Arvisais-Anhalt S, Lau M, Lehmann CU, Holmgren AJ, Medford RJ, Ramirez CM, Chen CN. The 21st Century Cures Act and Multiuser Electronic Health Record Access: Potential Pitfalls of Information Release. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2022. PMID: 35175207


  25. Holmgren AJ, Downing NL, Tang M, Sharp C, Longhurst C, Huckman RS. Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinician ambulatory electronic health record use. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2021. PMID: 34888680


  26. Apathy NC, Holmgren AJ, Werner RM. Growth in health information exchange with ACO market penetration. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2022. PMID: 35049261


  27. Thompson SC, Holmgren AJ, Ford EW. Information system use antecedents of nursing employee turnover in a hospital setting. 2020. PMID: 33399352


  28. Holmgren AJ, Kuznetsova M, Classen D, Bates DW. Assessing hospital electronic health record vendor performance across publicly reported quality measures. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2021. PMID: 34333626


  30. Holmgren AJ, Cutler D, Mehrotra A. The Increasing Role of Physician Practices as Bill Collectors: Destined for Failure. JAMA. 2021. PMID: 34328509


  31. Apathy NC, Holmgren AJ, Adler-Milstein J. 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. PMID: 34198342


  32. Holmgren AJ, Lindeman B, Ford EW. Resident Physician Experience and Duration of Electronic Health Record Use. Applied clinical informatics. 2021. PMID: 34348409


  33. Rotenstein LS, Holmgren AJ, Downing NL, Longhurst CA, Bates DW. Differences in Clinician Electronic Health Record Use Across Adult and Pediatric Primary Care Specialties. JAMA network open. 2021. PMID: 34241631


  34. Rotenstein LS, Holmgren AJ, Downing NL, Bates DW. Differences in Total and After-hours Electronic Health Record Time Across Ambulatory Specialties. JAMA internal medicine. 2021. PMID: 33749732


  35. . Hospital organizational strategies associated with advanced EHR adoption. Health services research. 2021. PMID: 33779993


  36. Co Z, Holmgren AJ, Classen DC, Newmark LP, Seger DL, Cole JM, Pon B, Zimmer KP, Bates DW. The Development and Piloting of the Ambulatory Electronic Health Record Evaluation Tool: Lessons Learned. 2021. PMID: 33657634


  37. Holmgren AJ, Downing NL, Bates DW, Shanafelt TD, Milstein A, Sharp CD, Cutler DM, Huckman RS, Schulman KA. Assessment of Electronic Health Record Use Between US and Non-US Health Systems. JAMA internal medicine. 2021. PMID: 33315048


  38. Holmgren AJ, Apathy NC, Adler-Milstein J. 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. PMID: 33001154


  39. 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. PMID: 32442266


  40. Co Z, Holmgren AJ, Classen DC, Newmark L, Seger DL, Danforth M, Bates DW. 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. PMID: 32620948


  41. Holmgren AJ, Botelho A, Brandt AM. A History of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the United States: Political Appeal and Public Health Efficacy. American journal of public health. 2020. PMID: 32552023


  43. Levine DM, Co Z, Newmark LP, Groisser AR, Holmgren AJ, Haas JS, Bates DW. Design and testing of a mobile health application rating tool. 2020. PMID: 32509971


  44. Classen DC, Holmgren AJ, Co Z, Newmark LP, Seger D, Danforth M, Bates DW. National Trends in the Safety Performance of Electronic Health Record Systems From 2009 to 2018. 2020. PMID: 32469412


  45. Apathy NC, Holmgren AJ. Opt-in consent policies: potential barriers to hospital health information exchange. The American journal of managed care. 2020. PMID: 31951362


  46. Holmgren AJ, Apathy NC. Hospital adoption of API-enabled patient data access. Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 2019. PMID: 31471262


  47. Holmgren AJ, Co Z, Newmark L, Danforth M, Classen D, Bates D. Assessing the safety of electronic health records: a national longitudinal study of medication-related decision support. BMJ quality & safety. 2019. PMID: 31320497


  48. Holmgren AJ, Ford EW. Assessing the impact of health system organizational structure on hospital electronic data sharing. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2018. PMID: 29982687


  50. Holmgren AJ, Adler-Milstein J, McCullough J. 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. PMID: 29186508


  51. Adler-Milstein J, Holmgren AJ, Kralovec P, Worzala C, Searcy T, Patel V. Electronic health record adoption in US hospitals: the emergence of a digital "advanced use" divide. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2017. PMID: 29016973


  52. Holmgren AJ, Patel V, Adler-Milstein J. Progress In Interoperability: Measuring US Hospitals' Engagement In Sharing Patient Data. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2017. PMID: 28971929


  53. Holmgren AJ, Adler-Milstein J. Health Information Exchange in US Hospitals: The Current Landscape and a Path to Improved Information Sharing. Journal of hospital medicine. 2017. PMID: 28272599


  54. Holmgren AJ, Pfeifer E, Manojlovich M, Adler-Milstein J. A Novel Survey to Examine the Relationship between Health IT Adoption and Nurse-Physician Communication. Applied clinical informatics. 2016. PMID: 27999841


  55. Holmgren AJ, Patel V, Charles D, Adler-Milstein J. US hospital engagement in core domains of interoperability. The American journal of managed care. 2016. PMID: 27982673