Dr. Kuperman is the Director for Quality Informatics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. His role is to help the hospital use information technology to improve the quality of care. He leads a strategic planning process at the hospital to determine the best way to use information technology to improve quality. He is involved in research that examines the impact of clinical information systems on the cost, quality, safety, and efficiency of medical care. Dr. Kuperman also the Chairman of the Board of NYCLIX, Inc., the New York Clinical Information Exchange. The mission of NYCLIX is to improve care in the NYC region through the development of a regional data exchange capability. Dr. Kuperman is an author on over 60 articles related to health information technology. Dr. Kuperman is a faculty member in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University and Public Health at Weill-Cornell Medical College. Dr. Kuperman is on the Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association.

• Strategic planning for advanced clinical information systems in large health care organizations
• Design, development, implementation and evaluation of knowledge-based clinical decision support systems
• Building and evaluating regional clinical data interchange networks

• Member, AMIA Board of Directors
• Chair, AMIA Clinical Information Systems Working Group
• Editorial Board, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
• Applications Track Chair, 2006 AMIA Fall Symposium

• Chair, Board of Directors, New York Clinical Information Exchange (NYCLIX)

• Co-chair, Clinical Alerts Committee
• Chair, Clinical Quality and Informatics Committee
• Chair, Medication Safety and Informatics Committee
• Staff, Information Systems Clinical Advisory Group
• Chair, Vocabulary Committee
• Chair, Architecture Committee
• Member, Quality and Patient Safety Committee

1. Kuperman GJ, Gardner RM.  The impact of the HELP hospital information system on the LDS Hospital paper medical record.  Top Health Rec Manage 1991;12(2):76-85.

2. Glaser JP, Teich JM, Kuperman GJ.  The future of clinical information systems:  one hospital's perspective.  Top Health Inform Manage 1993;14(1):12-24.

3. Bates DW, Kuperman GJ, Teich JM.  Computerized physician order entry and quality of care. Quality Management in Health Care 1994;2(4):18-27.

4. Kuperman GJ, Bates DB, Teich JM, Schneider JR, Cheiman D.  A new knowledge structure for drug-drug interactions. In: Ozbolt JG, ed.  Proceedings of the Eighteenth American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium. Philadelphia: Hanley and Belfus, Inc. 1994;18:836-840.

5. Kuperman GJ, Teich JM, Bates DW, McLatchey J, Hoff TG.  Representing hospital events as complex conditionals. In: Gardner RM, ed.  Proceedings of the Nineteenth American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium. Philadelphia: Hanley and Belfus, Inc. 1995;19:137-141.

6. Kuperman GJ, Bates DW, Teich JM, Hiltz FL, Hurley JM, Lee RY, Paterno MD.  Detecting alerts, notifying the physician, and offering action items:  a comprehensive alerting system. In: Cimino JJ, ed.  Proceedings of the Twentieth American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium. Philadelphia: Hanley and Belfus, Inc. 1996;20:704-708.

7. Harpole LH, Khorasani R, Fiskio J, Kuperman GJ, Bates DW.  Automated evidence-based critiquing of orders for abdominal radiographs: impact on utilization and appropriateness.  J Am Med Inform Assoc 1997;4(6):511-521.

8. Kuperman GJ, Sussman A, Schneider LI, Fiskio JM, Bates DW. Towards improving the accuracy of the clinical database: allowing outpatients to review their computerized data. In: Chute CG, ed.  Proceedings of the Twenty-second American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium. Philadelphia: Hanley and Belfus, Inc. 1998;22:220-4.

9. Kuperman GJ, Hiltz FL, Teich JM.  Advanced alerting features:  Displaying new relevant data and retracting alerts. In: Masys DR, ed.  Proceedings of the Twenty-first American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium. Philadelphia: Hanley and Belfus, Inc. 1997;21:243-247.

10. Kuperman GJ, Boyle D, Jha A, Rittenberg E, Ma’Luf N, Tanasijevic MJ, Teich JM, Winkelman J, Bates DW.  How promptly are inpatients treated for critical laboratory results?.  J Am Med Informatics Assn 1998;5:112-119.

11. Bates DW, Boyle D, Rittenberg E, Kuperman GJ, Ma'Luf N, Menkin V, Winkelman JW, Tanasijevic MJ.  Common ancillary tests: what proportion appear redundant and potentially could be eliminated using simple computerized rules. Am J Med 1998;104(4):361-368.

12. Hripcsak G, Kuperman GJ, Friedman C. Extracting findings from narrative reports: software transferability and sources of physician disagreement. Methods of Information in Medicine 1998;37:1-7.

13. Jha AK, Kuperman GJ, Teich JM, Leape L, Shea B, Rittenberg E, Burdick E, Seger DL, Vander Vliet M, Bates DW.  Identifying adverse drug events: development of a computer-based monitor and comparison with chart review and stimulated voluntary report.  JAMIA 1998;5(3):305-314.

14. Bates DW, Pappius E, Kuperman GJ, Sittig D, Burstin H, Fairchild D, Brennan TA, Teich JM. Using information systems to measure and improve quality.Int J Med Inf 1999;53(2-3):115-24.

15. Bates DW, Kuperman GJ, Rittenberg E, Teich JM, Fiskio J, Ma'luf N, Onderdonk A, Wybenga D, Winkelman J, Brennan TA, Komaroff AL, Tanasijevic M A randomized trial of a computer-based intervention to reduce utilization of redundant laboratory tests. Am J Med 1999;106(2):144-50.

16. Hripcsak G, Kuperman GJ, Friedman C, Heitjan DF A reliability study for evaluating information extraction from radiology reports. J Am Med Inform Assoc 1999;6(2):143-50.

17. Teich JM, Glaser JP, Beckley RF, Aranow M, Bates DW, Kuperman GJ, Ward ME, Spurr CD. The Brigham integrated computing system (BICS): advanced clinical systems in an academic hospital environment. Int J Med Inf 1999 Jun;54(3):197-208.

18. Bates DW, Teich JM, Lee J, Seger D, Kuperman GJ, Ma'Luf N, Boyle D, Leape L. The impact of computerized physician order entry on medication error prevention. J Am Med Inform Assoc 1999;6(4):313-21.

19. Kuperman GJ, Fiskio JM, Karson A. A process to maintain the quality of a computerized knowledge base. In: Lorenzi, N, ed.  Proceedings of the Twenty-third American Medical Informatics Association Annual Fall Symposium. Philadelphia: Hanley and Belfus, Inc. 1999;23:87-91.

20. Kuperman GJ, Teich JM, Tanasijevic MJ, Ma'Luf N, Rittenberg E, Jha A, Fiskio J, Winkelman J, Bates DW. Improving response to critical laboratory results with automation:  results of a randomized controlled trial. J Am Med Inform Assoc 1999 Nov-Dec;6(6):512-22.

21. Teich JM, Merchia PR, Schmiz JL, Kuperman GJ, Spurr CD, Bates DW.  Effects of computerized physician order entry on prescribing practices.  Arch Intern Med 2000 Oct 9;160(18):2741-7.

22. Kuperman GJ, Spurr C, Flammini S, Bates D, Glaser J.  A clinical information systems strategy for a large integrated delivery network.  Proc AMIA Symp 2000;:438-42.

23. Kuperman GJ, Teich JM, Gandhi TK, Bates DW.  Patient safety and computerized medication ordering at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  Jt Comm J Qual Improv 2001 Oct;27(10):509-21.

24. Jha AK, Kuperman GJ, Rittenberg E, Teich JM, Bates DW.  Identifying hospital admissions due to adverse drug events using a computer-based monitor.  Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2001 Mar-Apr;10(2):113-9.

25. Chertow GM, Lee J, Kuperman GJ, Burdick E, Horsky J, Seger DL, Lee R, Mekala A, Song J, Komaroff AL, Bates DW. Guided medication dosing for inpatients with renal insufficiency. JAMA 2001 Dec 12;286(22):2839-44.

26. Wald JS, Pedraza LA, Reilly CA, Murphy ME, Kuperman GJ.  Requirements development for a patient computing system.  Proc AMIA Symp 2001;:731-5.

27. Poon EG, Kuperman GJ, Fiskio J, Bates DW.   Real-time notification of laboratory data requested by users through alphanumeric pagers.  J Am Med Inform Assoc 2002 May-Jun;9(3):217-22.

28. Chen P, Tanasijevic MJ, Schoenenberger RA, Fiskio J, Kuperman GJ, Bates DW. A computer-based intervention for improving the appropriateness of antiepileptic drug level monitoring. Am J Clin Pathol. 2003 Mar;119(3):432-8.

29. Ash JS, Stavri PZ, Kuperman GJ. A consensus statement on considerations for a successful CPOE implementation. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2003 May-Jun;10(3):229-34

30. Maviglia SM, Zielstorff RD, Paterno M, Teich JM, Bates DW, Kuperman GJ. Automating complex guidelines for chronic disease: lessons learned. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2003 Mar-Apr;10(2):154-65.

31. Wang SJ, Middleton B, Prosser LA, Bardon CG, Spurr CD, Carchidi PJ, Kittler AF, Goldszer RC, Fairchild DG, Sussman AJ, Kuperman GJ, Bates DW. A cost-benefit analysis of electronic medical records in primary care. Am J Med. 2003 Apr 1;114(5):397-403.

32. Kuperman GJ, Gibson RF. Computer physician order entry: benefits, costs, and issues. Ann Intern Med. 2003 Jul 1;139(1):31-9.

33. Bates DW, Kuperman GJ, Wang S, Gandhi T, Kittler A, Volk L, Spurr C, Khorasani R, Tanasijevic M, Middleton B. Ten Commandments for Effective Clinical Decision Support: Making the Practice of Evidence-Based Medicine a Reality. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2003 Nov-Dec;10(6):523-30.

34. Wang SJ, Bates DW, Chueh HC, Karson AS, Maviglia SM, Greim JA, Frost JP, Kuperman GJ.  Automated Coded Ambulatory Problem Lists: Evaluation of a Vocabulary and a Data Entry Tool.  Int J Med Inform. 2003 Dec;72(1-3):17-28.

35. Kuperman GJ, Gandhi TK, Bates DW. Effective Drug-allergy Checking: Methodological and Operational Issues.  J Biomed Inform. 2003 Feb-Apr;36(1-2):70-9.

36. Poon EG, Wang SJ, Gandhi TK, Bates DW,Kuperman GJ. Design and implementation of a comprehensive outpatient Results Manager.J Biomed Inform. 2003 Feb-Apr;36(1-2):80-91.
37. Kuperman GJ, Marston E, Paterno M, Rogala J, Plaks N, Hanson C, Blumenfeld B, Middleton B, Spurr CD, Kaushal R, Gandhi TK, Bates DW.  Creating an Enterprise-wide Allergy Repository At Partners HealthCare System.  AMIA Fall Symposium 2003; 376-380.

38. Hsieh TC, Kuperman GJ, Jaggi T, Hojnowski-Diaz P, Fiskio J, Williams DH, Bates DW, Gandhi TK. Characteristics and consequences of drug allergy alert overrides in a computerized physician order entry system. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2004 Nov-Dec;11(6):482-91.

39. Horsky J, Kuperman GJ, Patel VL. Comprehensive analysis of a medication dosing error related to CPOE. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005 Jul-Aug;12(4):377-82.

40. Peterson JF, Kuperman GJ, Shek C, Patel M, Avorn J, Bates DW. Guided prescription of psychotropic medications for geriatric inpatients. Arch Intern Med. 2005 Apr 11;165(7):802-7.

41. Kaushal R, Blumenthal D, Poon EG, Jha AK, Franz C, Middleton B, Glaser J, Kuperman G, Christino M, Fernandopulle R, Newhouse JP, Bates DW; Cost of National Health Information Network Working Group. The costs of a national health information network. Ann Intern Med. 2005 Aug 2;143(3):165-73.

42. Shah NR, Seger AC, Seger DL, Fiskio JM, Kuperman GJ, Blumenfeld B, Recklet EG, Bates DW, Gandhi TK. Improving acceptance of computerized prescribing alerts in ambulatory care. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 Jan-Feb;13(1):5-11.

43. Maviglia SM, Yoon CS, Bates DW, Kuperman G. KnowledgeLink: impact of context-sensitive information retrieval on clinicians' information needs. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 Jan-Feb;13(1):67-73.

44. Kaushal R, Jha AK, Franz C, Glaser J, Shetty KD, Jaggi T, Middleton B, Kuperman GJ, Khorasani R, Tanasijevic M, Bates DW. Return on Investment for a Computerized Physician Order Entry System. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 Feb 24.

45. Kuperman GJ, Reichley RM, Bailey TC. Using Commercial Knowledge Bases for Clinical Decision Support: Opportunities, Hurdles, and Recommendations. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 Apr 18.