Investigator J.B. Jones, PhD, MBA

Dr. Jones directs Sutter Health’s Health Care Solutions team, and is a Principal Investigator at the Sutter Health Center for Health Systems Research (East Campus, currently operating as Sutter's Research Development and Dissemination). He creates and implements strategies that drive innovation, guide working relationships with key partners, and institute methods for rapid-cycle development at Sutter Health.

He coordinates the work of a diverse team of clinicians, data scientists, healthcare solutions analysts, investigators, product developers, finance and operations staff, and technology experts. His team is involved in all phases of the product development process, including discovery, prototyping, pilot testing, evaluating (gathering data on usability, usefulness and outcomes), and disseminating solutions for broader implementation within and outside Sutter Health.

Dr. Jones’ research focuses on key areas of digital health including the use of electronic health records (EHRs) to support innovation in care process redesign, the development of tools and processes for implementing shared decision-making and patient-reported data collection in routine care, and deploying and evaluating health IT tools in “real-world” clinical practice settings.

He pioneered the use of audit data from EHRs to develop a typology of “e-health” users. More recently, he helped lead efforts to evaluate the adoption and use of digital health solutions at Sutter Health. Dr. Jones is Principal Investigator for Sutter's cardiometabolic program (funded by AstraZeneca), the MS-Share project (funded by the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine), and MS-Mobile (funded by Genentech/Roche).

Dr. Jones received his PhD in health services research from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, his MBA from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University, and his BS in physiology from the University of California, Davis.

Sutter Health Research Enterprise
2121 N. California Ave, Suite 310
Walnut Creek, CA, 94596
(925) 287-4028
JonesJB@sutterhealth.org

Primary Research Interests

Publications

Measuring adherence and outcomes in the treatment of patients with multiple sclerosis.

Patients with MS are mostly adherent to their existing treatments. Pts with greater medication adherence may have more cost, but physical outcomes are better.

Medication burden in patients with acute coronary syndromes.

Clinicians & policy makers need to be aware of medication burden to help address medication use during the acute coronary syndrome peri-hospitalization period.

Inability of primary care providers to predict medication fulfillment of new prescriptions.

A physician’s intuition about a patient’s likelihood of filling a new medication does not reliably identify patients who do not fill new Rx's for chronic meds.

A randomized telephone intervention trial to reduce primary medication nonadherence.

Low rate of primary med nonadherence in the overall population differed from prior studies in this setting and others and should be assessed in future research.

Electronic health record-based assessment of oral corticosteroid use in a population of primary care patients with asthma: an observational study.

Oral corticosteroid prescriptions for asthma patients are frequently ordered for conditions unrelated to asthma.

The relative efficacy and safety of clopidogrel in women and men a sex-specific collaborative meta-analysis.

Clopidogrel reduces the risk of cardiovascular events in both women and men.

Lower copay and oral administration: predictors of first-fill adherence to new asthma prescriptions.

Factors associated with failing to fill an initial Rx for asthma can be addressed through simple interventions: avoid non-formulary meds and high copays.

The electronic health record audit file: the patient is waiting.

Scalable ways to quantify clinical encounter workflow elements may provide the means to develop more efficient approaches to care and improve the pt. experience

Effect of financial incentives to physicians, patients, or both on lipid levels: a randomized clinical trial.

In primary care practices, shared financial incentives for physicians and patients, resulted in statistically significant but modest reduction in LDL-C levels.

The wired patient: patterns of electronic patient portal use among patients with cardiac disease or diabetes.

There are naturally occurring groups of EHR web portal users within patients with CVD and diabetes with opportunities for patient engagement.

Shared decision making: using health information technology to integrate patient choice into primary care.

Describe experience and lessons learned to implement shared decision making process in primary care CVD management.

Beyond the threshold: real-time use of evidence in practice.

Article discusses challenge of developing clinical practice guidelines to be incorporated into EHRs and integrated into clinician workflows at point of care.

Touchscreen questionnaire patient data collection in rheumatology practice: development of a highly successful system using process redesign.

Process redesign and touchscreen technology were used to develop successful collection of patient-reported outcomes in two rheumatology settings.

Meaningful use in practice using patient-specific risk in an electronic health record for shared decision making.

Tests were made of an automated clinical care process for using quantitative risk in routine primary care.

Meta-analysis 101: what you want to know in the era of comparative effectiveness.

Authors highlight the process, strengths, and weaknesses of meta-analysis and explain how to judge the value of the results.

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder: a meta-analysis.

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors were found to be effective in treating premenstrual symptoms, with continuous dosing regimens favored for effectiveness.

Issues in the design of Internet-based systems for collecting patient-reported outcomes.

Collecting PROs via the internet has the potential to overcome many of the challenges associated with efforts to routinely use PROs in the clinical encounter.

Moderating effects of patient characteristics on the impact of financial incentives.

Findings suggest differential response based on pt. characteristics to incentives, particularly in targeted medication changes.

Medication non-adherence and therapeutic inertia independently contribute to poor disease control for cardiometabolic diseases

Evaluating the Impact of a Point-of-Care Cardiometabolic Clinical Decision Support Tool on Clinical Efficiency Using Electronic Health Record Audit Log Data: Algorithm Development and Validation

This study aimed to evaluate a Cardiometabolic Sutter Health Advanced Reengineered Encounter (CM-SHARE), a web-based application to visualize key EHR data use.

Do Patients Continue to Use Video Visits? Factors Related to Continued Video Visit Use

Electronic health record technology designed for the clinical encounter: MS NeuroShare

MS NeuroShare, a digital health solution that brings practical information to the point of care.

Using the PARAFAC2 tensor factorization on EHR audit data to understand PCP desktop work.

Results demonstrate that EHR audit log data can be rapidly processed to create higher-level constructed features that represent time-stamped PCP tasks.

CM-SHARE: Development, integration, and adoption of an electronic health record-linked digital health solution to support care for diabetes in primary care.

Describes the development, pilot testing, and fine-tuning of a Web-based digital health solution to help PCPs manage patients with cardiometabolic diseases.