Christopher Longhurst
Academic Appointments
- Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Systems Medicine
- Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
Key Documents
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital 725 Welch Rd Palo Alto, CA 94304 Tel Work (650) 736-7492 Fax (650) 498-6904Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
- Academic Offices
Administrative Contact Gabrielle Khedr Administrative Assistant Email Tel Work (650) 724-0503Not for medical emergencies or patient use
Professional Overview
Clinical Focus
- General Pediatrics
- Pediatric Hospitalist
Administrative Appointments
- Chief Medical Information Officer, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (2010 - present)
- Medical Director, Clinical Informatics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (2007 - 2010)
- Physician Lead, Clinical Informatics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (2004 - 2007)
Honors and Awards
- Top 25 Clinical Informaticist, Modern Healthcare (2010, 2011, 2012)
- Faculty Fellows Leadership Program, Stanford University School of Medicine (2010)
- Letter of Teaching Distinction, Stanford University School of Medicine, Office of the Dean (2011, 2012)
Professional Education
| Residency: | Stanford University School of Medicine CA (2004) |
| Internship: | Stanford University School of Medicine CA (2002) |
| Board Certification: | General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (2004) |
| Medical Education: | UC Davis School of Medicine CA (2001) |
| M.S.: | UC Davis, Medical Informatics (2000) |
| B.S.: | UC San Diego, Molecular Biology (1996) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Community and International Work
- Faculty Consultant, US
- Roatan Volunteer Pediatric Clinic, Honduras
Internet Links
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Clinical Informatics is the scientific field concerned with the application of information technology to the delivery of healthcare services. In my administrative role as Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH), I oversee the Clinical Informatics and Analytics departments at Packard Childrens. In this role, I am responsible for the implementation and optimization of a comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) system including computerized physician order entry (CPOE) with clinical decision support (CDS), patient-engaging technologies like personal health records (PHR), and our enterprise data warehouse (EDW).
Together with colleagues in the department, our applied informatics research focuses on rigorously evaluating the best ways to implement and optimize health information technology to benefit the patients we serve at Packard Childrens. Specific areas of focus include 1) the impact of health IT on quality/safety 2) advancing clinical decision support models through closed-loop analytics, and 3) the intersection of health IT and medical education. Results of this work have been published in peer-reviewed journals like the New England Journal of Medicine, BMJ, Pediatrics, and Applied Clinical Informatics.
Publications
- Evidence-based medicine in the EMR era. N Engl J Med. 2011; (19): 1758-9
- Decrease in hospital-wide mortality rate after implementation of a commercially sold computerized physician order entry system. Pediatrics. 2010; (1): 14-21
- Embedding time-limited laboratory orders within computerized provider order entry reduces laboratory utilization*. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2013; (4): 413-9
- Medical Education in the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Era: Benefits, Challenges, and Future Directions. Acad Med. 2013
- Health information technology and patient safety. BMJ. 2012: e1096
- Integrating the home management plan of care for children with asthma into an electronic medical record. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2012; (8): 359-65
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