Biography
Dr. Okafor has experience in the implementation and management of Emergency Department Information Systems (EDIS) and acts as the domain expert in projects addressing the issues associated with workflow and meaningful use of Health Information Technology (HIT) in the emergency department.
He has a masters degree in clinical informatics and completed an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) training fellowship that focused on the design, implementation, selection and evaluation of HIT from a systems and human factors perspective in order to increase healthcare quality and safety.
Over the past several years, he has directed and assisted several UT emergency medicine quality improvement projects that include computerized physician order entry, ED throughput times, timely review of time-sensitive laboratory results, and initiatives directed at decreasing recurrence of medical errors and harm reduction associated with medical error.
Education
- MD
- University of Missouri at Columbia
- MS
- Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas at Houston
- Internship
- EM, Boston Medical Center
- Residency
- EM, Boston Medical Center
Areas of Interest
Clinical Interests
Clinical informatics, Patient safety and healthcare quality improvement
Research Interests
Decreasing medical error, Information systems (EDIS), Clinical informatics