Faculty
Russ Cucina, MD, MS Assistant Clinical Professor of Hospital Medicine and Clinical and Translational Informatics 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 |
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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.



