Department / Division:
Pediatrics / Neonatology

Address:
DUMC 31182
Durham, NC 27710

Office Telephone:
919-668-2166

Fax Telephone:
919-668-5545

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

• Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, 2003

• Neonatology, Duke University Medical Center, 2006

• 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

Representative Publications:
Horvath M., Cozart H., Ahmad A., Langman M., Ferranti J.  "Sharing Adverse Event Data Using Business Intelligence Technology."  Journal of Patient Safety. 5 (1): 35-41.  March, 2009. (2009)

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)

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 J., Cozart H. “Re-Evaluating the safety profile of Pediatrics.  A comparison of Computerized Surveillance and Voluntary Safety Reporting in the pediatric environment” Pediatrics. 121(5):e1201-7, 2008 May (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, 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

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