Tiago Colicchio, M.B.A, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Lead Implementation Scientist - Clinical Informatics Center Associate Professor Schools School of Public Health Departments Public Health Biography Tiago K. Colicchio, PhD, MBA, PMP, FAMIA, is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Economics and Systems Policy at the Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health. He is a biomedical informatician whose work focuses on the design, implementation, evaluation, and optimization of health information technology, with particular emphasis on electronic health records (EHRs), clinical decision support, and learning health systems. Dr. Colicchio earned his PhD in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Utah and previously served on the faculty of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he held appointments in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science. Dr. Colicchio’s research seeks to improve the safety, effectiveness, and usability of EHRs by leveraging clinical data, knowledge representation, implementation science, and artificial intelligence. His work has advanced understanding of how health information technology affects clinical workflows and patient outcomes, how clinician reasoning can be better represented within EHRs, and how clinical decision support systems can be redesigned to reduce alert burden while delivering more relevant information to clinicians. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in leading biomedical informatics journals, served as co-editor of the International Medical Informatics Association Clinical Decision Support Yearbook, and is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA). Before entering academia, Dr. Colicchio spent a decade leading large-scale informatics projects in the industry, managing enterprise EHR implementations, clinical systems operations, and health IT governance programs. This combination of operational leadership and academic research informs his translational approach to informatics, bridging the gap between technological innovation and real-world healthcare delivery. Research Interest Alert burden Clinical decision support Electronic health records Informatics standards and interoperability Knowledge representation Shared decision making Publications Featured Publications Transforming nephrology through artificial intelligence: a state-of-the-art roadmap for clinical integration. Cheungpasitporn W, Athavale A, Ghazi L, Kashani KB, Colicchio T, Koyner JL, Chen J, Ix JH, Nadkarni G, Neyra JA, Clin Kidney J 2026 Feb 19 2 sfag004 Bridging evidence and practice: implementation science and bundled care strategies for fluid management in critically ill neonates. Pak AC, Neyra JA, Brown JR, Travers CP, Starr MC, Harer MW, Sullivan I, MacKenzie TA, Colicchio TK, Griffin R, Askenazi DJ, Front Med (Lausanne) 2026 13 1706165 Challenges to Reduce Alert Burden Using Current Decision Support Infrastructure in Two Commercial EHR Systems: Lessons Learned and Path Forward. Colicchio TK, ElHalta D, Fiol GD, Kawamoto K, Strasberg HR, Cimino JJ, Appl Clin Inform 2025 May 16 3 575-582 Semantically oriented EHR navigation with a patient specific knowledge base and a clinical context ontology. Colicchio TK, Osborne JD, Do Rosario CV, Anand A, Timkovich NA, Wyatt MC, Cimino JJ, AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2023 2023 309-318 Formal representation of patients' care context data: the path to improving the electronic health record. Colicchio TK, Dissanayake PI, Cimino JJ, J Am Med Inform Assoc 2020 Nov 27 11 1648-1657 Health information technology as a learning health system: Call for a national monitoring system. Colicchio TK, Del Fiol G, Cimino JJ, Learn Health Syst 2020 4 1 e10207 Unintended Consequences of Nationwide Electronic Health Record Adoption: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post-Meaningful Use Era. Colicchio TK, Cimino JJ, Del Fiol G, J Med Internet Res 2019 Jun 21 6 e13313 Clinicians' reasoning as reflected in electronic clinical note-entry and reading/retrieval: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis. Colicchio TK, Cimino JJ, J Am Med Inform Assoc 2019 Feb 26 2 172-184 Identifying false-positive drug allergy alerts based on drug tolerance assertions: a retrospective study. Masud JHB, Cimino JJ, Colicchio TK, JAMIA Open 2026 Feb 9 1 ooag010 In pursuit of the alert fatigue: an assessment of drug alert burden at a large academic medical center. Masud JHB, Cimino JJ, Colicchio TK, AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2024 2024 844-853 Results 1-10 of 23 1 2 3 Next Last Books Featured Books Introduction to Health Informatics: Foundations, Applications, and Lessons Learned from the Digitization of the U.S. Health System. Colicchio TK (2020). Brazil, Artmed Honors & Awards Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA) (2025) John D Morgan FellowshipAward provided to students with outstanding performance in the field of Medical Informatics (2017) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Medical Informatics Association Health Level 7 International
