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Soni H, Morrison H, Vasilev D, Ong T, Wilczewski H, Allen C, Hughes-Halbert C, Ritchie JB, Narma A, Schiffman JD, Ivanova J, Bunnell BE, Welch BM. User experience of a family health history chatbot: A quantitative analysis. Health Informatics J. 2024 Apr-Jun;30(2):14604582241262251. doi: 10.1177/14604582241262251. PubMed PMID: 38865081; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11391477.
Wilczewski H, Paige SR, Ong T, Soni H, Barrera JF, Welch BM, Bunnell BE. Providers' Perspectives on Telemental Health Usage After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Retrospective Analysis. JMIR Form Res. 2022 Nov 11;6(11):e39634. doi: 10.2196/39634. PubMed PMID: 36322787; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9662289.
Soni H, Ivanova J, Wilczewski H, Bailey A, Ong T, Narma A, Bunnell BE, Welch BM. Virtual conversational agents versus online forms: Patient experience and preferences for health data collection. Front Digit Health. 2022;4:954069. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2022.954069. eCollection 2022. PubMed PMID: 36310920; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9606606.
Paige SR, Ong T, Wilczewski H, Barrera JF, Welch BM, Bunnell BE. Clinical and Information Services Needed by Telemental Health Providers. Telemed J E Health. 2023 Jan;29(1):141-145. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2021.0457. Epub 2022 May 26. PubMed PMID: 35617706; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9918345.
Wilczewski H, Paige SR, Ong T, Barrera JF, Soni H, Welch BM, Bunnell BE. Perceptions of Telemental Health Care Delivery During COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study With Providers, February-March 2021. Front Psychiatry. 2022;13:855138. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.855138. eCollection 2022. PubMed PMID: 35444579; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9013879.
Ong T, Wilczewski H, Soni H, Nisbet Q, Paige SR, Barrera JF, Welch BM, Bunnell BE. The Symbiosis of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy and Telemental Health: A Review. Front Virtual Real. 2022;3. doi: 10.3389/frvir.2022.848066. Epub 2022 Feb 25. PubMed PMID: 37483657; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10361704.
Ritchie JB, Frey LJ, Lamy JB, Bellcross C, Morrison H, Schiffman JD, Welch BM. Automated Clinical Practice Guideline Recommendations for Hereditary Cancer Risk Using Chatbots and Ontologies: System Description. JMIR Cancer. 2022 Jan 31;8(1):e29289. doi: 10.2196/29289. PubMed PMID: 35099392; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8845001.
Vogt EL, Welch BM, Bunnell BE, Barrera JF, Paige SR, Owens M, Coffey P, Diazgranados N, Goldman D. Quantifying the Impact of COVID-19 on Telemedicine Utilization: Retrospective Observational Study. Interact J Med Res. 2022 Jan 28;11(1):e29880. doi: 10.2196/29880. PubMed PMID: 34751158; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8797150.
Ritchie JB, Welch BM, Allen CG, Frey LJ, Morrison H, Schiffman JD, Alekseyenko AV, Dean B, Hughes Halbert C, Bellcross C. Comparison of a Cancer Family History Collection and Risk Assessment Tool - ItRunsInMyFamily - with Risk Assessment by Health-Care Professionals. Public Health Genomics. 2022;25(3-4):80-88. doi: 10.1159/000520001. Epub 2021 Dec 6. PubMed PMID: 34872100; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9167897.
Ong T, Wilczewski H, Paige SR, Soni H, Welch BM, Bunnell BE. Extended Reality for Enhanced Telehealth During and Beyond COVID-19: Viewpoint. JMIR Serious Games. 2021 Jul 26;9(3):e26520. doi: 10.2196/26520. PubMed PMID: 34227992; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8315161.
Ritchie JB, Bellcross C, Allen CG, Frey L, Morrison H, Schiffman JD, Welch BM. Evaluation and comparison of hereditary Cancer guidelines in the population. Hered Cancer Clin Pract. 2021 Jul 17;19(1):31. doi: 10.1186/s13053-021-00188-9. PubMed PMID: 34274008; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8285854.
Bunnell BE, Kazantzis N, Paige SR, Barrera J, Thakkar RN, Turner D, Welch BM. Provision of Care by "Real World" Telemental Health Providers. Front Psychol. 2021;12:653652. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.653652. eCollection 2021. PubMed PMID: 34025519; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8138039.
Ponathil A, Ozkan F, Bertrand J, Agnisarman S, Narasimha S, Welch B, Chalil Madathil K. An empirical study investigating the user acceptance of a virtual conversational agent interface for family health history collection among the geriatric population. Health Informatics J. 2020 Dec;26(4):2946-2966. doi: 10.1177/1460458220955104. Epub 2020 Sep 16. PubMed PMID: 32938275.
Welch BM, Allen CG, Ritchie JB, Morrison H, Hughes-Halbert C, Schiffman JD. Using a Chatbot to Assess Hereditary Cancer Risk. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2020 Sep;4:787-793. doi: 10.1200/CCI.20.00014. PubMed PMID: 32897737; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7529541.
Allen CG, Ritchie JB, Morrison H, Lauzon SD, Nichols M, Schiffman JD, Hughes Halbert C, Welch BM. A thematic analysis of health information technology use among cancer genetic counselors. J Genet Couns. 2021 Feb;30(1):170-179. doi: 10.1002/jgc4.1306. Epub 2020 Jul 8. PubMed PMID: 32643297; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8290863.
Ritchie J, Welch B. Categorization of Third-Party Apps in Electronic Health Record App Marketplaces: Systematic Search and Analysis. JMIR Med Inform. 2020 May 29;8(5):e16980. doi: 10.2196/16980. PubMed PMID: 32469324; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7293052.
Ritchie JB, Allen CG, Morrison H, Nichols M, Lauzon SD, Schiffman JD, Hughes Halbert C, Welch BM. Utilization of health information technology among cancer genetic counselors. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2020 Aug;8(8):e1315. doi: 10.1002/mgg3.1315. Epub 2020 May 28. PubMed PMID: 32468681; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7434745.
Ponathil A, Ozkan F, Welch B, Bertrand J, Chalil Madathil K. Family health history collected by virtual conversational agents: An empirical study to investigate the efficacy of this approach. J Genet Couns. 2020 Dec;29(6):1081-1092. doi: 10.1002/jgc4.1239. Epub 2020 Mar 3. PubMed PMID: 32125052; NIHMSID:NIHMS1570359.
Newlin T, McCall T, Ottmar P, Welch B, Khairat S. Assessing the Satisfaction of Citizens Using Teleconsent in Clinical Research. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2018;247:685-689. PubMed PMID: 29678048; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12983460.
Khairat S, Ottmar P, Sleath B, Welch B, Qanungo S, Nichols M, Obeid JS. Facilitating the Informed Consent Process Using Teleconsent: Protocol for a Feasibility and Efficacy Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2018 Oct 17;7(10):e11239. doi: 10.2196/11239. PubMed PMID: 30333095; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6234333.
Welch BM, Wiley K, Pflieger L, Achiangia R, Baker K, Hughes-Halbert C, Morrison H, Schiffman J, Doerr M. Review and Comparison of Electronic Patient-Facing Family Health History Tools. J Genet Couns. 2018 Apr;27(2):381-391. doi: 10.1007/s10897-018-0235-7. Epub 2018 Mar 6. Review. PubMed PMID: 29512060; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5861014.
Welch BM, Harvey J, O'Connell NS, McElligott JT. Patient preferences for direct-to-consumer telemedicine services: a nationwide survey. BMC Health Serv Res. 2017 Nov 28;17(1):784. doi: 10.1186/s12913-017-2744-8. PubMed PMID: 29183372; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5704580.
Aziz A, Pflieger L, O'Connell N, Schiffman J, Welch BM. Compatibility of Family History Cancer Guidelines With Meaningful Use Standards. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2017;1. doi: 10.1200/CCI.17.00076. Epub 2017 Nov 7. PubMed PMID: 30148247; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6107299.
Agnisarman S, Narasimha S, Chalil Madathil K, Welch B, Brinda F, Ashok A, McElligott J. Toward a More Usable Home-Based Video Telemedicine System: A Heuristic Evaluation of the Clinician User Interfaces of Home-Based Video Telemedicine Systems. JMIR Hum Factors. 2017 Apr 24;4(2):e11. doi: 10.2196/humanfactors.7293. PubMed PMID: 28438724; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5422657.
Rogers H, Madathil KC, Agnisarman S, Narasimha S, Ashok A, Nair A, Welch BM, McElligott JT. A Systematic Review of the Implementation Challenges of Telemedicine Systems in Ambulances. Telemed J E Health. 2017 Sep;23(9):707-717. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2016.0248. Epub 2017 Mar 15. PubMed PMID: 28294704.
Narasimha S, Madathil KC, Agnisarman S, Rogers H, Welch B, Ashok A, Nair A, McElligott J. Designing Telemedicine Systems for Geriatric Patients: A Review of the Usability Studies. Telemed J E Health. 2017 Jun;23(6):459-472. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2016.0178. Epub 2016 Nov 22. PubMed PMID: 27875667.
Narasimha S, Agnisarman S, Madathil K, Gramopadhye A, Welch B, Mcelligott J. An Investigation of the Usability Issues of Home-based Video Telemedicine Systems with Geriatric Patients. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2016 Annual Meeting. 2016 September; 60(1). doi: 10.1177/1541931213601412.
Agnisarman SO, Chalil Madathil K, Smith K, Ashok A, Welch B, McElligott JT. Lessons learned from the usability assessment of home-based telemedicine systems. Appl Ergon. 2017 Jan;58:424-434. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2016.08.003. Epub 2016 Aug 12. PubMed PMID: 27633239.
Welch BM, Marshall E, Qanungo S, Aziz A, Laken M, Lenert L, Obeid J. Teleconsent: A Novel Approach to Obtain Informed Consent for Research. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2016 Aug 15;3:74-79. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2016.03.002. Epub 2016 Mar 31. PubMed PMID: 27822565; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5096381.
Aziz A, Kawamoto K, Eilbeck K, Williams MS, Freimuth RR, Hoffman MA, Rasmussen LV, Overby CL, Shirts BH, Hoffman JM, Welch BM. The genomic CDS sandbox: An assessment among domain experts. J Biomed Inform. 2016 Apr;60:84-94. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.12.019. Epub 2016 Jan 15. PubMed PMID: 26778834; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4948866.
Welch BM, O'Connell NS, Qanungo S, Halbert-Hughes C, Schiffman JD. Collecting Family Health History using an Online Social Network: a Nationwide Survey among Potential Users. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2015;2015:1316-25. eCollection 2015. PubMed PMID: 26958272; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4765590.
Hughes Halbert C, Welch B, Lynch C, Magwood G, Rice L, Jefferson M, Riley J. Social determinants of family health history collection. J Community Genet. 2016 Jan;7(1):57-64. doi: 10.1007/s12687-015-0251-3. Epub 2015 Aug 18. PubMed PMID: 26280996; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4715811.
Fillmore CL, Rommel CA, Welch BM, Zhang M, Kawamoto K. The perils of meta-regression to identify clinical decision support system success factors. J Biomed Inform. 2015 Aug;56:65-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2015.05.007. Epub 2015 May 18. PubMed PMID: 25998518; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4866642.
Welch BM, Dere W, Schiffman JD. Family health history: the case for better tools. JAMA. 2015 May 5;313(17):1711-2. doi: 10.1001/jama.2015.2417. PubMed PMID: 25868012.
Welch BM, O'Connell N, Schiffman JD. 10 years later: assessing the impact of public health efforts on the collection of family health history. Am J Med Genet A. 2015 Sep;167A(9):2026-33. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.37139. Epub 2015 May 1. PubMed PMID: 25939339.
Obeid J, Welch B, Lenert L. A Telemedicine Platform for Remote Electronic Informed Consent. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science. 2015 March; San Francisco, CA.
Qanungo S, Obeid J, Laken M, Lopez C, Lenert L, Welch B. Expanding Access to Telemedicine in Research and Clinical Care Across South Carolina. [Poster]. Columba, SC: Care Coordination Institute Annual Symposium; 2015 March.
Lin Y, Staes CJ, Schields DE, Kandula V, Welch BM, Kawamoto K. Design, Development, and Initial Evaluation of a Terminology for Clinical Decision Support and Electronic Clinical Quality Measurement. AMIA Annual Symposium proceedings. 2015.
Welch BM. Doxy.me- A simple, free, and secure telemedicine solution for health care and research participation. AMIA Annual Symposium. 2014 November; Washington, DC.
Lin Y, Welch BM, Tippets TJ. Identification of Common Concepts for Clinical Decision Support and Mapping to the Health Level 7 Virtual Medical Record Data Model. AMIA Annual Symposium. 2014 November; Washington, DC.
Welch BM, Rodriguez-Loya S, Eilbeck K, Kawamoto K. Clinical decision support for whole genome sequence information leveraging a service-oriented architecture: a prototype. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2014;2014:1188-97. eCollection 2014. PubMed PMID: 25954430; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4419907.
Welch BM, Eilbeck K, Del Fiol G, Meyer LJ, Kawamoto K. Technical desiderata for the integration of genomic data with clinical decision support. J Biomed Inform. 2014 Oct;51:3-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2014.05.014. Epub 2014 Jun 12. PubMed PMID: 24931434.
Welch BM, Varner M, Clark E. Personalized Prenatal Care for Low-Risk Pregnancies Using a Telemedicine Strategy. ATA 2014. 2014 May; Washington, DC.
Welch BM, Loya SR, Eilbeck K, Kawamoto K. A proposed clinical decision support architecture capable of supporting whole genome sequence information. J Pers Med. 2014 Apr 4;4(2):176-99. doi: 10.3390/jpm4020176. PubMed PMID: 25411644; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4234046.
Welch BM. Doxy.me: Simple. Free. Secure. Translational Medicine Symposium. 2014 February.
Welch BM. Doxy.me: Simple. Free. Secure. Opportunity Quest. University of Utah. 2014.
Welch BM. Introduction to Telehealth. Health, Society and Policy Capstone course, University of Utah. 2014; Salt Lake City, UT.
Welch BM, Schiffman JD. Developing an online social network platform to collect family health history. AMIA Annual Symposium; 2014 November 15; Washington, DC. c2014.
Welch BM, Kawamoto K, Drohan B, Hughes KS. Clinical Decision Support: The Road to Adoption. Elsevier. In: Clinical Decision Support for Personalized Medicine Academic Press: Elsevier; 2013.
Welch BM, Hoversten KK, Varner M. Current Progress in Obstetrics and Gynecology Vol 2. In: The Obstetric Family History Tree Life Media: Tree Life Media; 2013.
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