Assembly on Pulmonary Infections & Tuberculosis Mid Career Award

Barbara Jones, MD, MsC, is a pulmonary and critical care physician with a health services research focus on clinical decision-making in respiratory infection. She combines several informatics methods including population analytics, qualitative inquiry, and computerized decision support to examine and improve diagnosis, management, and outcomes for pneumonia. The use of the electronic health record (EHR) in a learning health system framework to convert data to evidence and develop tools to improve practice for all settings is central to her work. She has successfully developed and applied approaches to capture the diagnosis of pneumonia from the EHR, developed an electronic quality measure surrounding diagnosis of pneumonia for hospitalized patients, employed causal inference methods to the EHR to examine variation and generate evidence for key clinical decisions, designed, implemented and evaluated clinical decision support within Veterans Affairs, University of Utah, and Intermountain Health. Dr. Jones also recently served as a chair of American Thoracic Society/Infectious Disease Society of America clinical practice guidelines and a member of the National Quality Forum for Diagnostic Excellence. Through the NAM Scholars in DxEd fellowship, she will integrate her expertise in diagnosis, clinical decision support, and quality measurement to develop and implement new ways to improve diagnosis in healthcare.