Paulina Sockolow

Paulina Sockolow DrPH, is a public health informatician. She has been trained in the fields of health informatics and health policy and management as a National Library of Medicine/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Public Health Informatics Fellow at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2010 she became Johns Hopkins’s first graduated doctorally prepared informatician, receiving her Doctor of Public Health degree.

Sockolow’s program of research focuses on the use of health informatics to improve to improve the health of people who are vulnerable or reside in under-resourced communities. She has been awarded R21 and R01 grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to examine health information technology support for nurses during the delivery of care to older people across the transition in care and in-home healthcare. She also investigates consumers’ use of mobile health information technology for patient-centered care and self-care. Sockolow has also conducted research in cross-national comparisons of electronic health record systems.

Sockolow’s survey instrument, the Electronic Health Record Nurse Satisfaction (EHRNS), has been added to the AHRQ HIT Library Survey Compendium and is used world-wide. She has also developed and applied a health information technology evaluation framework the Health Information Technology Reference-based Evaluation Framework (HITREF).

In addition to her healthcare training, Sockolow has an applied background in informatics with over 20 years of experience. She successfully managed large projects implementing clinical information systems in academic hospitals. She also has a Master of Business Administration degree, with majors in healthcare systems and decision science, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.