Research
Dr. Flórez-Arango’s research portfolio focuses on human-computer interaction, human factors, and workload reduction. He seeks to understand factors that will contribute to creating better informatics tools for education, knowledge transfer, skills development, and just-in-time job aids, i.e., embedded clinical decision support systems. He uses community-based research, participatory design, scenario-based evaluation, and TURF methods. A thought leader and expert in telemedicine in Latin America, Dr. Flórez-Arango is also interested in technologies that facilitate knowledge representation with minimal to no code, rapid content deployment, increased knowledge retention, and improved provider performance and patient outcomes. He also has broad experience designing, implementing, and evaluating technology solutions in low-resource environments. Currently, he is working on authoring tools for creating dynamic electronic patients, visual knowledge representation and automatic encoding in computer interpretable representations, and personalized health.
Current Projects:
- Augmented reality for task sharing in mental health.
Bio
Dr. Florez-Arango is a Colombian physician and health informatician with over 20 years of experience as a clinician, educator, researcher, thought leader, innovator, and entrepreneur. He aims to contribute his knowledge and expertise to help develop skills for innovative, creative, flexible, compassionate 21st-century healthcare providers capable of delivering high-quality patient-centered care in resource-constrained environments. His research explores information and communication technologies for delivering humanized clinical encounter experiences to patients and providers. His clinical expertise is in emergency medicine, with special training in prehospital care, disaster planning, and management. He is also interested in curricular innovation, development, implementation, and evaluation.
Distinctions:
- ADVANCE – Administrative Fellow – Texas A&M University (2021-2022)
- MEEl Fellow - COM (2021)
- Schull Institute Scholar (2009)
- Minority Faculty Association Scholarship - UTHSC (2007)
- Fulbright Scholar (2005-2009)
Selected Publications:
- A Framework to Develop an Immersive Virtual Reality Simulation Tool for Postpartum Hemorrhage Management Nurse Training
- E-enabled Patient-Provider Communication in Context
- Characterization of a corpus extracted from maternal electronic health records through natural language processing techniques
- Development and usability of a mobile tool for identification of depression and suicide risk in Fiji
- XML Data and Knowledge-Encoding Structure for a Web-Based and Mobile Antenatal Clinical Decision Support System: Development Study