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Johnbuck Creamer, MD*
Undergraduate – Case Western Reserve University Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Medical School – Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Residency – Internal Medicine (CWRU - MetroHealth)
Faculty Appointment – Assistant Professor of Medicine
Informatics Role – Director of Clinical Informatics – Inpatient Informatics
Role in Fellowship Program – Assistant Program Director
Brief Description – Dr. Creamer has served as MetroHealth’s Director of Clinical Informatics for Orders and Order Sets since 2012. This position presents a nexus of his interests in inpatient quality, evidence-based decision supports and medical education. Dr. Creamer works in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Hospital Medicine.
Selected Recent Projects
Development of Inpatient Informatics Council<>/strong>: Multidisciplinary council which meets monthly and has been expanding to include medical, surgical, pediatric, nursing, physician, APP, CI, and operational representatives to form, review and coordinate informatics efforts. Includes two recently created and filled roles for Associate Director of Clinical Informatics for Inpatient Care.
Implementation of AdmissionCare software to determine IP/Obs status at the time of hospital bed placement: Work in conjunction with Medical Director for Utilization Review, CI, IS, UR, and clinical stakeholders. Facilitated product testing; determine and advocate for user needs; creation, dissemination/presentation of training materials specific to user groups; liaise with vendor and its project teams. Strategic and tactical planning for timing and scope of product rollout, with initial rollout to medical (IM, FP, Ped) services accomplished 6/2023. Ongoing vendor liaison via its Clinical Advisory Group; ongoing support for users and further strategy development in response to patterns of software usage IP/Obs accuracy. Evaluation and strategy for eventual product rollout to surgical services.
Creation of Discharge Order Sets: Stroke and Anticoagulation order sets in progress, others to follow. Our group is coordinating disease- and treatment-specific discharge care needs in consultation with clinical subject matter experts, clinical stakeholders, and technical resources to improve discharge care including elimination of gaps in patient care and improvement of clinical user experience.
Standardization of Problem List Preference Lists and Note Templates: Effort to improve clinical documentation by promoting appropriately specific diagnosis entries via the hospital problem list; additional work to leverage outside experience in standardizing note templates also to improve clinical documentation and promote high-value clinical note content and eliminate low-value note content.
Improvement of Medication Reconciliation on Hospital Admission and Discharge: Interdisciplinary effort to increase adherence to and quality of medication reconciliation and the time of hospital admission and discharge. Subgroup of recently formed task group to eliminate errors and gaps in communication and care in transitions into hospital and post-hospital care.
* - Board Certified in Clinical Informatics
** - Board Eligible in Clinical Informatics
