DHM

Faculty

Russ Cucina, MD, MS

Assistant Clinical Professor of Hospital Medicine and Clinical and Translational Informatics
Associate Medical Director of Information Technology, UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Children’s Hospital

Email: rcucina@medicine.ucsf.edu

Click here to view bio and Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Areas of Specialization/Research Interests

Health information technology leadership and policy
Socio-technical issues in health care
Clinical human-computer interaction science
Decision support systems
Information storage and retrieval methods

Selected Publications/Presentations

Cucina RJ. “Information Technology in Patient Care”, in McPhee SJ, et al. Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2008. McGraw Hill

Cucina RJ, Torres S. “Physician / Nurse Collaboration and the Impact of Health IT”, Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) Annual Meeting 2008, Ojai, California

Cucina RJ. “Physician Documentation and Web Applications Development”, General Electric Physician Advisory Group / CIO Forum 2007, San Antonio, Texas

Cucina RJ, Bokser SB, Carter JD, McClaren KM, Blum MS. “Design and Implementation of an Inpatient Physician Documentation System Using Off-the-Shelf Components”. American Medical Informatics Association Annual Meeting 2007, Chicago, Illinois

Sarkar U, Carter J, Omachi T, Vidyarthi A, Cucina RJ, Bokser S, Van Eaton E, Blum M. Synopsis: Integrating Physician Sign-Out with the Electronic Medical Record. J Hosp Med. 2007 Sep;2(5):336-42

Huang Y, Lowe HJ, Klein D, Cucina RJ. Improved Identification of Noun Phrases in Clinical Radiology Reports using a High Performance Statistical Natural Language Parser, Augmented with the UMLS Specialist Lexicon. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2005 May-Jun;12(3):275-85

Berrios DC, Cucina RJ, Fagan LM. Methods for Semi-automated Indexing for High Precision Information Retrieval. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2002; 9:637-652.