ABOUT ME
I am an Assistant Professor, Associate Division Chief for Research in the Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT), and Director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research at UC San Francisco. My research focuses on artificial intelligence in health care, digital health technology evaluation, and the ways information technology affects clinicians, patients, and health care organizations. I am also a faculty affiliate at the UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health, and a Senior Advisor at the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center.
My current work focuses on three domains:
Generative AI in Clinical Care. I study the impact of generative AI tools, including AI scribes and chart summarization tools, on clinician work, information consumption, and decision-making in real-world health system deployments.
Clinician Technology Use and Workflow. I study how physicians interact with information technology systems such as electronic health records (EHRs) - where they spend their time, how technology use shapes care delivery, and how teams, workflow, and design can reduce clinician burden and improve efficiency and patient access to care. I am especially interested in discovering ways to improve clinician information consumption, including data generated outside of their health system delivered via health information exchange, to make more informed treatment decisions.
Health IT Policy and Digital Infrastructure. I study how payment policy, health information exchange, EHR market structure, cybersecurity, and incentives for AI use shape the digital infrastructure of the U.S. health system, with a focus on implications for the quality and costs of care.
My work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including JAMA, Health Affairs, The American Journal of Public Health, Health Services Research, and JAMIA, and featured in popular press outlets including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Politico, and NPR. I received my PhD in Health Policy (Management) in 2021 from Harvard University and Harvard Business School.
Email: a.holmgren@ucsf.edu
Twitter: @AJHolmgren