A Jay Holmgren

A Jay Holmgren is a doctoral candidate in the health policy management track at Harvard Business School. Prior to HBS, A Jay graduated from the University of Michigan with a Master of Health Informatics degree in 2017; he also holds a BA in History from the university. A Jay previously worked as a research assistant with the Lab for Health IT Impact and Dr. Julia Adler-Milstein, studying the adoption and efficacy of information technology in healthcare. His work has been published in journals including JAMA, Health Affairs, The American Journal of Managed Care, and The Journal of Hospital Medicine. A Jay’s research interests are in digital health. His work seeks to understand how healthcare organizations can best implement and optimize their use of information technology, especially health information exchange and data interoperability, to reduce costs and improve the quality of care. 

Journal Articles

• Co, Zoe, A Jay Holmgren, David C Classen, Lisa P Newmark, Diane Seger, Melissa Danforth, and David W Bates. "The Tradeoffs Between Safety and Alert Fatigue: Data from a National Evaluation of Hospital Medication-related Clinical Decision Support." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 27, no. 8 (August 2020): 1252–1258. View Details
• Holmgren, A Jay, Lance Downing, David W. Bates, Tait D. Shanafelt, Arnold Milstein, Christopher Sharp, David Cutler, Robert S. Huckman, and Kevin A. Schulman. "Assessment of Electronic Health Record Use Between U.S. and Non-U.S. Health Systems." JAMA Internal Medicine 181, no. 2 (February 2021): 251–259. View Details
• Holmgren, A Jay, and Nate Apathy. "Evaluation of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Integration with Hospital Electronic Health Records by US County-Level Opioid Prescribing Rates." JAMA Network Open 3, no. 6 (June 2020). View Details
• Holmgren, A Jay, Alyssa Botelho, and Allan M Brandt. "A History of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the United States: Political Appeal and Public Health Efficacy." American Journal of Public Health 110, no. 8 (August 2020). View Details
• Classen, David, A Jay Holmgren, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Diane Seger, Melissa Danforth, and David Bates. "National Trends in the Safety Performance of Electronic Health Record Systems From 2009 to 2018." JAMA Network Open 3, no. 5 (May 2020). View Details
• Holmgren, A Jay, Nate Apathy, and Julia Adler-Milstein. "Barriers to Hospital Electronic Public Health Reporting and Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 27, no. 11 (November 2020). View Details
• Levine, David, Zo Co, Lisa Newmark, Alissa Groisser, A Jay Holmgren, Jennifer Haas, and David Bates. "Design and Testing of a Mobile Health Application Rating Tool." Art. 74. npj Digital Medicine 3 (2020). View Details
• Apathy, Nate C., and A Jay Holmgren. "Opt-in Consent Policies: Potential Barriers to Hospital Health Information Exchange." Special Issue on Health IT edited by Ilana Graetz. American Journal of Managed Care 26, no. 1 (January 2020). View Details
• Holmgren, A Jay, and Nate C. Apathy. "Hospital Adoption of API-enabled Patient Data Access." Art. 100377. Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation 7, no. 4 (2019). View Details
• Holmgren, A Jay, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Melissa Danforth, David Classen, and David Bates. "Assessing the Safety of Electronic Health Records: A National Longitudinal Study of Medication-related Decision Support." BMJ Quality & Safety 29, no. 1 (January 2020): 52–59. View Details
• Holmgren, A Jay, and Eric Ford. "Assessing the Impact of Health System Organizational Structure on Hospital Electronic Data Sharing." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 25, no. 9 (September 2018): 1147–1152. View Details
• Holmgren, A Jay, Julia Adler-Milstein, and Lena M. Chen. "Participation in a Voluntary Bundled Payment Program by Organizations Providing Care After an Acute Hospitalization." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 320, no. 4 (July 24, 2018): 402–404. View Details
• Holmgren, A Jay, Julia Adler-Milstein, and Jeffrey McCullough. "Are All Certified EHRs Created Equal? Assessing the Relationship between EHR Vendor and Hospital Meaningful Use Performance." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 25, no. 6 (June 2018): 654–660. (Editor's Choice.) View Details
• Holmgren, A Jay, Vaishali Patel, and Julia Adler-Milstein. "Progress In Interoperability: Measuring US Hospitals' Engagement In Sharing Patient Data." Health Affairs 36, no. 10 (October 2017): 1820–1827. View Details
• Adler-Milstein, Julia, A Jay Holmgren, Peter Kralovec, Chantel Worzala, Talisha Searcy, and Vaishali Patel. "Electronic Health Record Adoption in U.S. Hospitals: The Emergence of a Digital 'Advanced Use' Divide." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 24, no. 6 (November 2017): 1142–1148. (Editor's Choice.) View Details
• Holmgren, A Jay, Eric Pfeifer, Milisa Manojlovich, and Julia Adler-Milstein. "A Novel Survey to Examine the Relationship between Health IT Adoption and Nurse-Physician Communication." Applied Clinical Informatics 7, no. 4 (December 2016): 1182–1201. View Details
• Holmgren, A Jay, and Julia Adler-Milstein. "Health Information Exchange in U.S. Hospitals: The Current Landscape and a Path to Improved Information Sharing." Journal of Hospital Medicine 12, no. 3 (March 2017): 193–198. View Details
• Holmgren, A Jay, Vaishali Patel, Dustin Charles, and Julia Adler-Milstein. "US Hospital Engagement in Core Domains of Interoperability." Special Issue on Health IT. American Journal of Managed Care 22, no. 12 (December 2016). View Details

Other Publicatioins and Materials

• Holmgren, A Jay, and Julia Adler-Milstein. "Does Electronic Health Record Consolidation Follow Hospital Consolidation?" Health Affairs Blog (March 7, 2019). https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20190304.998205/full/. View Details

Awards & Honors

Winner of the Best Student Authored Paper Award presented at the 11th Annual Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA), October 10th 2020.

Area of Study

• Health Policy Management