RAND Expert Biography
Douglas S. Bell
Research Scientist, RAND Corporation; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
Expertise
Quality of care, technology, information, and innovation
Recent Work
Led a set of Medicare-sponsored studies evaluating electronic prescribing standards, in partnership with the New Jersey E-Prescribing Action Coalition; developed expert-panel recommendations for electronic prescribing systems and evaluated the implementation of these recommendations among commercially available systems; conducted research in online physician education, concept representation for electronic health records, online survey data collection, and the digital divide among health care providers
Education
Ph.D. in health services, University of California, Los Angeles; M.D., Harvard Medical School; B.A. in biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University
Publications of Interest
"Rates and Types of Events Reported to Established Incident Reporting Systems in Two U.S. Hospitals," Teryl K. Nuckols et al., Quality and Safety in Healthcare, Vol. 16, No. 3, June 2007
"A Test of Knowledge About Prostate Cancer Screening: Online Pilot Evaluation Among Southern California Physicians," Douglas S. Bell et al., Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol. 21, No. 4, Apr 2006
"Instruments for Evaluating Education in Evidence-Based Practice: A Systematic Review," Terrence Shaneyfelt et al., Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 296, No. 9, Sept 2006
"E-Prescribing and the Medicare Modernization Act: Paving the On-Ramp to Fully Integrated Health Information Technology," D. S. Bell and M. A. Friedman, Health Affairs, Vol. 24, No. 5, Sept/Oct 2005
"Functional Characteristics of Commercial Ambulatory Electronic Prescribing Systems: A Field Study," C. J. Wang et al., Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Vol. 12, No. 3, May/June 2005
Recent RAND Publications are listed here.
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: American Medical News; United Press International
To arrange an interview:
Contact the RAND Office of Media Relations, (703) 413-1100, x5117 or (310) 451-6913, or send an email to media@rand.org.
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