Jos Aarts

Dr Jos Aarts is Assistant Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Visiting Associate Professor of Biomedical informatics with a focus on sociotechnical issues and human-centered design in the Department of Biomedical Informatics of the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Victoria in Canada. His research interests are the impact of health IT on professional work practices and workflow, usability and safety of HIT, and medication safety and decision support systems in particular. His research papers have appeared in Health Affairs, Health Technology and Policy, the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, the International Journal of Medical Informatics, Methods of Information in Medicine and BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. Dr Aarts has been a visiting scholar at Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Ore, the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney in Australia. He is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and IFIP Working Group 8.2, Information Systems and Organizations. He is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Medical Informatics, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, and Health Technology and Policy. Dr Aarts is an elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.