Call for Papers and JABFM Editorial Board Member Honored with Fellowship

Call for Papers on Health Information Technology in Primary Care

The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine solicits articles that explore the value, benefits, and problems of a range of technology—from electronic health records (EHRs) to home health tools to telemedicine—for the general health of patients and pertinent to primary health care. The following topics are of high priority for this theme issue:

• Effect of EHRs on patient outcomes, quality improvement, and the doctor–patient relationship

• Value and cost of EHRs to small practices

• Effect of electronic automatic phrases and visit templates on patient outcomes

• Patient-reported perspectives, values, and outcomes with EHR

• Moving beyond documentation to prioritize and synthesize information

• Innovative ways to use technology to enhance team coordination and support

• Effect of meaningful use on clinical practice, workflows, and patient care

• Efforts to improve quality of care through the use and research of “big data” and bringing such findings to the clinical bedside

• Functionality of the EHR for point-of-care decision support or for creating useful population health registries

• Including patient-reported outcomes as part of the EHR

• Effective use of the patient portal

• Effect of technology on medication errors/reconciliation

The deadline for consideration for this theme issue is September 3, 2014. Please let us know if you plan to submit by sending an E-mail message to Phil Lupo, Senior Editorial Assistant, at jabfm{at}med.wayne.edu.

JABFM Editorial Board Member, M. Norman Oliver, MD, MA, Honored With Bishop Fellowship

M. Norman Oliver, MD, MA, the Walter M. Seward Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, has been selected by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Foundation as a Bishop Fellow for the 2014/2015 academic year.

The Bishop Fellowship program was inaugurated in 2000 to prepare senior family medicine faculty to assume positions of greater responsibility in academic medicine and health care leadership. The program was the vision of Dr. F. Marian Bishop, former president of the Foundation, who was widely regarded as one of the intellectual founders of the specialty. The program is supported by the F. Marian Bishop Charitable Trust. In addition to Dr. Oliver, more than 25 family medicine leaders have been named as Bishop Fellows.

The Bishop Fellowship works in partnership with the American Council on Education's ACE Fellowship program. As part of the Bishop Fellowship, Dr. Oliver plans to design a curriculum focused on the precise knowledge and skills he will need to become a national leader in health care delivery transformation. He plans to spend 4 weeks with health system leaders at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Utah, and the US Navy's patient-centered medical home program. He also will take a variety of courses and attend leadership development workshops to gain new knowledge and skills for population health management.

Robert Graham, MD, serves as executive director of the Bishop Fellowship program and may be contacted for further information at grahamj3{at}ucmail.uc.edu (Submitted by Tom Vansaghi, PhD).