Physicians

Departments / Divisions

• Pediatrics / Pediatrics-Neonatology
• Community and Family Medicine / CFM - Medical Informatics

Address
DUMC 31182
Durham, NC 27710

Office Telephone
919-668-2166

Fax Telephone
919-668-5545

Training

• MD, McGill University Faculty of Medicine (Canada), 2000

Residency

• Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, 2003

Fellowship

• Neonatology, Duke University Medical Center, 2006

Other Training

• MS, Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, 2006

Clinical Interests
Medical informatics, computerized patient-safety initiatives, quality improvement metrics, electronic research data exchange, medical-data standards and interoperability, neonatal critical care, CPOE, electronic medical records

Research Interests
Data Warehousing and Health Analytics
    - Healthcare Business Intelligence Methodologies
    - Healthcare Data Warehousing
    - Health Analytics
    - Healthcare Information Exchange and Interoperability Standards
    - Computerized Physician Order Entry Implementation and Analysis for Quality Improvement
    - Web Services and Distributed Computing in Healthcare

Pediatric Informatics
    - Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)in Pediatrics
    - Electronic Medical Records (EMR) in Pediatrics
    - Emerging Technologies in Neonatology
    - Heathcare Data Standards and Taxonomies

Computerized Patient Safety Initiatives
    - Voluntary Reporting Systems
    - Computerized Adverse Drug Event (ADE) Surveillance
    - Quality improvement metrics
    - Patient Safety Event Ontologies

Industry Relationships and Collaborations (What's this?)

This physician (or a member of their immediate family) has a working relationship (i.e. consulting, research, and/or educational services) with the companies listed below. These relations have been reported to the health system leadership and, when appropriate, management plans are in place to address potential conflicts.

• Columbus Regional Healthcare System

Representative Publications
Ferranti JM, Langman MK, Tanaka D, McCall J, Ahmad A. Bridging the gap: leveraging business intelligence tools in support of patient safety and financial effectiveness. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2010 Mar 1;17(2):136-43. (2010) Abstract

Cozart H, Horvath MM, Long A, Whitehurst J, Eckstrand J, Ferranti J. Culture counts--sustainable inpatient computerized surveillance across Duke University Health System.  Qual Manag Health Care.  2010 Oct-Dec;19(4):282-91. (2010) Abstract

Long AL, Bendz L, Horvath MM, Cozart H, Eckstrand J, Whitehurst J, Ferranti J. Characteristics of ambulatory anticoagulant adverse drug events: a descriptive study.  Thromb J.  2010 Feb 18;8(1):5. (2010) Abstract

Long AL, Horvath MM, Cozart H, Eckstrand J, Whitehurst J, Ferranti J. Tailoring adverse drug event surveillance to the paediatric inpatient.  Qual Saf Health Care.  2010 May 28. (2010) Abstract

Long AL, Horvath MM, Jansen J, Ferranti J, Cozart H. An Academic Medical Center’s Experience with the Leapfrog computerized Provider Order Entry Evaluation Tool. Patient Safety & Quality in Healthcare, 2010. Nov/Dec: p.48-54. (2010)

Ferranti J., Drummond W., Identifying Processes for Problem Solving in Complex Healthcare Information Systems.   Pediatric Informatics:  Computer Applications in Child Health.  Ed.  Lehmann, Cristoph U.; Kim, George R.  2009, Springer.
ISBN: 978-0-387-76445-0 (2009)

Eckstrand JA, Habib AS, Williamson A, Horvath MM, Gattis KG, Cozart H, Ferranti J. Computerized surveillance of opioid-related adverse drug events in perioperative care: a cross-sectional study.  Patient Saf Surg. 2009;3(1):18. (2009) Abstract

Horvath MM, Cozart H, Ahmad A, Langman MK, Ferranti J. Sharing adverse drug event data using business intelligence technology.  J Patient Saf.  2009 Mar;5(1):35-41. (2009) Abstract

Stashenko G, Krichman A, Ferranti J, Russell M, Tcheng J, Tapson V.  Adding Decision Support to Computerized Provider Order Entry Improves Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Rates. Chest 2009 136: 146S-b-147. (2009)

Ferranti J, Horvath MM, Cozart H, Whitehurst J, Eckstrand J. Reevaluating the safety profile of pediatrics: a comparison of computerized adverse drug event surveillance and voluntary reporting in the pediatric environment. Pediatrics. 2008 May;121(5):e1201-7. (2008) Abstract

Ferranti J., Horvath M., Cozart H., Whitehurst J., Eckstrand J., Ahmad A.,  A Multifaceted Approach to Safety:  The Synergistic Detection of Adverse Drug Events in Adult Inpatients.  Journal of Patient Safety. 4(3):184-190, September 2008. (2008)

Ferranti JM, Musser RC, Kawamoto K, Hammond WE. The clinical document architecture and the continuity of care record: a critical analysis.  J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 May-Jun;13(3):245-52. (2006) Abstract

Paris JJ, Ferranti J. The changing face of medicine: health care on the Internet. J Perinatol. 2001 Jan-Feb;21(1):34-9. (2001) Abstract

Paris JJ, Ferranti J, Reardon F. From the Johns Hopkins Baby to Baby Miller: what have we learned from four decades of reflection on neonatal cases?  J Clin Ethics.  2001;12(3):207-14. (2001) Abstract