Allison B. McCoy, PhD

Location

Address: 

6410 Fannin St., UPB 1100

City: 

Houston

State: 

Texas

Zip Code: 

77030

Country: 

United States

 Undergraduate Education

2006 BSCS, Computer Science, Baylor University, Waco, TX

Honors Program Scholar with Distinction

Thesis: The Semantic Web: An Alternative Approach to Dynamic Data Definition and Integration in Medical Informatics Systems" (Erich J. Baker, Mentor)

 

Graduate Education

2008 MS, Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Thesis: "A System to Monitor and Improve Medication Safety in the Setting of Acute Kidney Injury" (Lemuel R. Waitman, Committee Chair)

 

2010 PhD, Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Dissertation: "Achieving Medication Safety during Acute Kidney Injury: The Impact of Clinical Decision Support and Real-Time Pharmacy Surveillance" (Josh F. Peterson, Committee Chair)

 

Postgraduate Training

2010-2011 Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX

 

Academic Appointments

2011-present Assistant Professor (Non-Tenure Research Track), School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX

 

Hospital Appointments

2003, 2004 Summer Intern, Information Services, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA

2010-present Consultant, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX

 

Other Professional Appointments

2010-present Member, The University of Texas-Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality & Safety, Houston, TX

2012-present Member, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine, Houston, TX

 

Professional Organizations

Local

2006-2009 Graduate Student Council, Vanderbilt University (Webmaster, 2006-2009)

2008-2009 Biomedical Informatics Graduate Student Council, Vanderbilt University (Secretary, 2008; President, 2009)

Regional

2013-present HIMSS Texas-South Central Chapter

National

2006-present AMIA

2013-present HIMSS

 

Honors and Awards

2002-2006 President’s Scholarship, Baylor University

2004-2006 Dean’s List (Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006), Baylor University

2005-2006 John/Ann Iler Computer Science Scholarship, Baylor University

2005-2006 Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Baylor University

2012 Journal Paper selected for listing in the 2012 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics (Adopting real-time surveillance dashboards as a component of an enterprisewide medication safety strategy. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 2011 Jul;37(7):326-32).

 

Editorial Activities

2008-2010 Student Editorial Board, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

2011-present Editorial Board, Biomedical Informatics Consultant, The Ochsner Journal

2012-present Editorial Board, Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery

2013 Program Committee, Analytics Track, ICHI 2012 – IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics

Ad Hoc Reviewer: AMIA Annual Symposium, Applied Clinical Informatics, Bioinformatics, Health Informatics Journal, International Journal of Medical Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of Health and Medical Informatics, Journal of Hospital Medicine Journal of Patient Safety, Medinfo, Methods of Information in Medicine, The Ochsner Journal, Pediatrics, Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine

 

Service Activities

National Grant Reviwe Panels, Study Sections, Committees

2012 Health Care Innovation Challenge (HCIC) Grant Review Panelist, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston

2011 Judge, Student Poster Session (Spring 2011, Fall 2011)

2012-present Curriculum Committee

2012-present Scholarship/Awards Committee

Affiliated Hospitals

2010-present Memorial Hermann Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Oversight Committee

2011-2012 Harris County Hospital District Clinical Decision Support Committee

Community Service

2003-2006 Member and Webmaster, Sigma Phi Lambda, Baylor University, Waco, TX

2006 Student Volunteer, ACM International Programming Contest, San Antonio, TX

2006-2009 Editorial Committee Co-Chair, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

2011-present Houston Project Volunteer, Houston’s First Baptist Church, Houston, TX

2012-present Baylor Delegate, Baylor University, Waco, TX (Distinguished Young Alumnus, Central Houston Baylor Rally, March 2012)

2012 Judge, Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium, Rice University, Houston, TX

 

Sponsorship of Students

PhD Committee Member

2012-present Safa Fathiamini

CPRIT Summer Undergraduate Cancer Research Project Mentor

2012 Elise Brune (Texas A&M University), Project: "Evaluation of Clinical Decision Support Alerts for Medications Contraindicated in Cancer Patients"

2012 Caitlin Keck (Cornell University), Project: "Evaluation of a Support Vector Machine to Identify Relevant Notes for Patients with Colorectal Cancer"

2012 Karthik Sethuraman (The University of Pennsylvania), Project: "Comparative Analysis of Association Rule Mining, Crowdsourcing, and NDF-RT Knowledge Bases for Problem-Medication Pair Generation"

 

Teaching Responsibilities

The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston

HI 5313 Introduction to Electronic Health Records (Teaching Assistant: Fall 2011)

HI 6001 Advanced Electronic Health Records Analysis (Co-Instructor: Spring 2012)

HIT 5323 Evaluation of Health Information Systems in Applied Health Informatics (Fall 2012, Spring 2013)

The University of Texas Medical School at Houston 

Informatics for Clinicians and Clinical Investigators (Co-Instructor: Summer 2012)

 

Current Grant Support

2012-2014 Improving Lab Order, Verification, and Follow-Up Processes at UT Physicians, The University of Texas System’s Systems Engineering in Healthcare Initiative, $250,000, Role: Clinical Informaticist, 2012-present (Eric Thomas, PI)

2012-2015 InSPECt: Interactive Surveillance Portal for Evaluating Clinical decision support, UTHealth Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences KL2 Award (KL2 TR 000370-06A1), Role: Scholar, 2012-present

 

Pending Grant Support

InSPECt: Interactive Surveillance Portal for Evaluating Clinical decision support, National Library of Medicine (K22 LM 011430-01), $386,080, Role: Principal Investigator, Priority Score: 32

 InSPECt: Interactive Surveillance Portal for Evaluating Clinical decision support, National Library of Medicine (K22 LM 011430-01A1), $394,450, Role: Principal Investigator, Priority Score: 30

Data mining for associations in the electronic medical record, Allscripts, $28,566, Role: Co-PI (Adam Wright, Dean F. Sittig, Co-PI)

Patient level problem inference intervention, Allscripts, $32,466, Role: Co-PI (Adam Wright, Dean F. Sittig, Co-PI)

Improving Patient-Centered Outcomes in High-Risk Medically Disadvantaged Cancer Patients, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Improving Healthcare Systems, $2,061,777, Role: Clinical Informaticist (Lillian S. Kao, PI)

Infrastructure Development Program in Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, R24, $150,006, Role: Scholar (Jon Tyson, PI)

 

Past Grant Support

2002-2012 Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Training Program , National Library of Medicine (T15 LM 007450), Role: Training Fellow, 2006-2008 (Cynthia S. Gadd, PI)

2008-2011 Information Systems for Detecting and Managing Acute Kidney Injury, National Library of Medicine (R01 LM00965), $330,524, Role: PhD Candidate, 2008-2010 (Josh F. Peterson, PI)

2010-2014 National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare, Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, SHARP Program Award (#10510949), $15,000,000, Role: Project Co-Investigator, 2010-2012 (Jiajie Zhang, PI)

 

Publications

Referred Original Articles in Journals

1. McCoy AB, Waitman LR, Gadd CS, Danciu I, Smith JP, Lewis JB, Schildcrout JS, Peterson JF. "A Computerized Provider Order Entry Intervention for Medication Safety During Acute Kidney Injury: A Quality Improvement Report." American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 2010 Nov;56(5):832-841. Epub 2010 August 14. PMID: 20709437.
2. Sastre EA, Denny JC, McCoy JA, McCoy AB, Spickard WA. "Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine: Impact on Students’ Literature Use and Inpatient Clinical Documentation." Medical Teacher. 2011;33(6):e306-312. PMID: 21609166.
3. Waitman LR, Phillips IE, McCoy AB, Danciu I, Halpenny RM, Nelsen CL, Johnson DC, Starmer J, Peterson JF. "Adopting Real-Time Surveillance Dashboards as a Component of an Enterprisewide Medication Safety Strategy." Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2011;37(7):326-332. PMID: 21819031. (Selected for listing in the 2012 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics).
4. Laxmisan A, McCoy AB, Wright A, Sittig DF. "Clinical Summarization Capabilities of Commercially-available and Internally-developed Electronic Health Records." Applied Clinical Informatics. 2012 Feb 22;3(1):80–93. PMID: 22468161.
5. McCoy AB, Waitman LR, Lewis JB, Wright JA, Choma DP, Miller RA, Peterson JF. "A Framework for Evaluating the Appropriateness of Clinical Decision Support Alerts and Responses." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2012;19:346-352. Epub 2011 August 17. PMID: 21849334.
6. McCoy AB, Waitman LR, Neal EB, Cox ZL, Peterson NB, Bhave G, Siew ED, Danciu I, Peterson JF. "Real-Time Pharmacy Surveillance and Clinical Decision Support to Reduce Adverse Drug Events in Acute Kidney Injury: A Randomized, Controlled Trial." Applied Clinical Informatics. 2012;3(2):221-238. Epub 2012 June 13. PMID: 22719796.
7. McCoy AB, Wright A, Laxmisan A, Ottosen MJ, McCoy JA, Butten D, Sittig DF. "Development and Evaluation of a Crowdsourcing Methodology for Knowledge Base Construction: Identifying Relationships between Clinical Problems and Medications." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2012;19:713-718. Epub 2012 May 12. PMID: 22582202.
8. McCoy AB, Ottenbacher AJ, Sittig DF, Etchegaray JM. "Understanding Evidence-Based Research Methods: Challenges and Considerations in the Analysis of Survey Data." Health Environments Research and Design Journal. 2012 Summer;5(4):142-5. PMID: 23224813.
9. Etchegaray JM, Ottenbacher AJ, Sittig DF, McCoy AB. "Understanding Evidence-Based Research Methods: Survey Analysis, t-Tests, and Odds Ratios." Health Environments Research and Design Journal. 2012 Fall;6(1):143-7. PMID: 23224848.
10. Atreya RV, Smith JC, McCoy AB, Malin B, Miller RA. "Reducing Patient re-identification risk for laboratory results within research datasets." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2013 Jan 1;20(1):95-101. Epub 21 July 2012. PMID: 22822040.
11. McCoy AB, Wright A, Kahn MG, Shapiro J, Bernstam EV, Sittig DF. "Matching Identifiers in Electronic Health Records: Implications for Duplicate Records and Patient Safety." BMJ Quality & Safety. 2013;22:219-224. Epub 29 January 2013. PMID: 23362505.
12. McCoy AB, Melton GB, Wright A, Sittig DF. "Clinical Decision Support for Colon and Rectal Surgery: An Overview" Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery. 2013;26(1):1-8. (In Press).
13. Wright A, Henkin S, Feblowitz J, McCoy AB, Bates DW, Sittig DF. "Early Results for Electronic Health Record Adoption." New England Journal of Medicine. 2012. (In Press).
14. Wright A, McCoy AB, Henkin S, Flaherty M, Sittig DF. "Validation of an assocation rule mining-based method to infer associations between medications and problems." Applied Clinical Informatics. 2013. (In Press).

Peer-Reviewed Proceedings

1. McCoy AB, Wright A, Laxmisan A, Singh H, Sittig DF. "A Prototype Knowledge Base and SMART App to Facilitate Organization of Patient Medications by Clinical Problems." AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings. 2011;2011:888-94. Epub 2011 Oct 22. PMID: 22195147.
2. Wright A, Feblowitz J, McCoy AB, Sittig DF. "Comparative Analysis of the VA/Kaiser and NLM CORE Problem Subsets: An Empirical Study Based on Problem Frequency." AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings. 2011;2011:1532-40. Epub 2011 Oct 22. PMID: 22195218.
3. Radecki RP, McCoy AB, Sirajuddin AM, Murphy RE, Sittig DF. "Effectiveness of Bar Code Medication Alerts for Elevated Potassium." AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings. 2012;2012:1360-5. Epub 2012 Nov 3. PMID: 23304415.

Abstracts and Poster Presentations

1. McCoy AB, Peterson JF, Gadd CS, Danciu I, Waitman LR. "A System to Improve Medication Safety in the Setting of Acute Kidney Injury: Initial Provider Response." AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings. 2008 Nov 6:1051. PMID: 18999252.
2. McCoy AB, Peterson JF, Gadd CS, Waitman LR. "A System to Improve Medication Safety in the Setting of Acute Kidney Injury." Poster presentation, National Library of Medicine Informatics Training Conference, Bethesda, MD, 2008.
3. Sastre EA, Denny JC, McCoy JA, McCoy AB, Spickard WA. "Teaching Evidence Based Medicine: Effectiveness of a Curriculum to Teach Literature Searching Skills to Third Year Medicine Clerks." Scientific abstract presentation at The Society of General and Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, 2009.
4. McCoy AB, Waitman LR, Peterson JF. "Rapid Correction of Clinical Decision Support Failures with Real-Time Surveillance of Provider Responses and Patient Outcomes." AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings. 2010.
5. McCoy AB, Sittig DF. "Computer-Based Clinical Decision Support for Colorectal Diseases: An Overview of Barriers and Facilitators." Diseases of the Colon and Rectum. 2011 May;54(5):e147.
6. McCoy AB, Peterson JF. "The Greasemonkey Firefox Add-On for Altering Display of Data in a Web-Based Electronic Medical Record." AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings. 2011;2011:1884. Epub 2011 Oct 22.
7. McCoy JA, McCoy AB, Wright A, Sittig DF. "Automated Inference of Patient Problems from Medications using NDF-RT and the SNOMED-CT CORE Problem List Subset." AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings. 2011;2011:1883. Epub 2011 Oct 22.
8. Klann J, Wright A, McCoy AB, Sittig DF, Murphy S. "Medical App Stores, Physician Cognitive Overload, and Research Data Repositories: an Integration." Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Mobile Apps, and Internet/Web 2.0 in Health, Medicine and Biomedical Research, Boston, MA, 2012.
9. McCoy AB, Wright A, Sittig DF. "Comparison of Association Rule Mining and Crowdsourcing for Automated Generation of a Problem-Medication Knowledge Base." The 2nd Annual IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Imaging and Systems Biology (HISB), San Diego, CA, 2012.
10. Radecki RP, McCoy AB, Sirajuddin AM, Murphy RE, Sittig DF. "Effectiveness of Bar Code Medication Alerts." 22nd Keck Annual Research Conference, Houston, TX, 2012.
11. McCoy AB, Wright A, McCoy JA, Sittig DF. "Use of the Crowdsourcing Methodology to Generate a Problem-Laboratory Result Knowledge Base." AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings. 2012;2012:1859. Epub 2012 Nov 3.
12. Sittig DF, McCoy AB, Wright A, Franklin A, Cohen T. "Reducing Cognitive Load: Exploring Knowledge Model-driven Clinical Information Displays." AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings. 2012;2012:1946. Epub 2012 Nov 3.

Chapters

1. McCoy AB. "Different Sides of the Story." In: Einbinder L, Lorenzi NM, Ash JS, Gadd CS, Einbinder J, eds. Transforming Health Care Through Information: Case Studies. 3rd ed. Springer; 2009.

Presentations

1. "A Renal Safety Net." Journal Club Research Presentation, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, November 9, 2007.
2. McCoy AB, Peterson JF, Waitman LR. "Real-Time Surveillance for Rapid Correction of Clinical Decision Support Failures." Podium presentation, National Library of Medicine Informatics Training Conference, Portland, OR, 2009.
3. "Achieving Medication Safety during Acute Kidney Injury: The Impact of Clinical Decision Support and Real-Time Pharmacy Surveillance." Invited presentation, UT-Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety, Houston, TX, 2010.
4. "Improving Patient Safety with Real-Time Surveillance and Automated Summarization." Invited Presentation, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Biomedical Informatics, Houston, TX. September 30, 2011.
5. Klann J, Murphy S, Wright A, McCoy AB. "The Medical App Store, Research Data Repositories, and Physician Cognitive Overload: Uniting Three Large, Multisite Grants for Health Care Transformation." Panel Presentation. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings. 2012;2012:1522. Epub 2012 Nov 3. (Selected as a "Hot Pick" by the AMIA Scientific Program Committee Chairs).