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David Bates (born June 5, 1957) is an American physician, biomedical informatician, and professor, known for his work regarding the use of health information technology (HIT) to improve the safety and quality of healthcare, in particular by using clinical decision support.[1]
Bates has done work in the area of medication safety. He began by describing the epidemiology of harm caused by medications, first in hospitalized patients[2] and then in other settings such as the home[3] and nursing homes.[4][5]
Bates is the chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the medical director of clinical and quality analysis for information systems at Mass General Brigham. He is also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a professor of health policy and management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He was chief quality officer and senior vice president of Brigham and Women's from 2011 to 2014. He was appointed chief innovation officer in October 2014 to 2016, and he directs the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice there. He is the director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded Health Information Technology Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (HIT-CERT) and the Patient Centered Learning Lab (PSLL) at the Brigham Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice.[6] He is editor of the Journal of Patient Safety.[5]
Awards and honors
Young Investigator of the Year Award, Society for Medical Decision-Making, 1993[6]
John P. Glaser Health Informatics Innovator Award,[15] October 30, 2017
Advisory activities
Bates has served as the chair of the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act workgroup[16] and the board chair of the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association.[1] He served as the external program lead for research in the World Health Organization's Alliance for Patient Safety from 2006-2015 and was a member of the U.S.'s HIT Policy Committee through 2016.[6] In addition, Bates was the president of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare.[17]
^Bates, David W.; Cullen, David J.; Laird, Nan; Peterson, Laura A.; Small, Stephen D.; Servi, Deborah; Laffel, Glenn; Sweitzer, Bobbie J.; Shea, Brian F.; Hallisey, Robert; Vander Vilet, Martha; Nemeskal, Roberta; Leape, Lucian L.; Bates, David; Hojnowski-Diaz, Patricia; Petrycki, Stephen; Cotugno, Michael; Patterson, Heather; Hickey, Mairead; Kleefield, Sharon; Cooper, Jeffrey; Kinneally, Ellen; Demonaco, Harold J.; Dempsey Clapp, Margaret; Gallivan, Theresa; Ives, Jeanette; Porter, Kathy; Thompson, Taylor; Hackman, J. Richard; Edmondson, Amy (1995). "Incidence of adverse drug events and potential adverse drug events: implications for prevention". JAMA. 274 (1): 29–34. doi:10.1001/jama.1995.03530010043033. PMID7791255.
^Gandhi, Tejal K; Weingart, Saul N; Borus, Joshua; Seger, Andrew C; Peterson, Josh; Burdick, Elisabeth; Seger, Diane L; Shu, Kirstin; Federico, Frank; Leape, Lucian L; Bates, David W (April 17, 2003). "Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care". The New England Journal of Medicine. 348 (16): 1556–1564. doi:10.1056/NEJMsa020703. PMID12700376.
^Gurwitz, Jerry H; Field, Terry S; Avorn, Jerry; McCormick, Danny; Jain, Shailavi; Eckler, Marie; Benser, Marcia; Edmondson, Amy C; Bates, David W (August 2000). "Incidence and preventability of adverse drug events in nursing homes". The American Journal of Medicine. 109 (2): 87–94. doi:10.1016/S0002-9343(00)00451-4. PMID10967148.
^ abcd"Bio: David W. Bates, MD, MSC". The Center For Patient Safety Research and Practice. Partners HealthCare. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
^ abcdBates, David Westfall. "Curriculum Vitae"(PDF). Hampden-Sydney College. Kuwait Health Sciences Center. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
