MacroErgonomics Safety and Health Laboratory

Richard J. Holden, Ph.D.

Contact Information (Temporary)

Riksdalervägen 7, #1012
129 32 Hägersten
Stockholm
SWEDEN
Tel: +46 (0)72 200 6013
E-mail: rholden@wisc.edu

About Me

Rich Holden was involved in research on health care work, safety, and technology in the MacroErgonomic Safety and Health Laboratory from 2001 to 2009. He is presently an AHRQ-funded postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison. During 2009-2010 he is serving as a Guest Researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden.

Education

• BS 2003, Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• MS 2004, Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• MS 2006, Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Joint PhD 2009, Industrial Engineering and Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Select MESH Lab Publications

• Holden, R.J., Scanlon, M.C., Patel, N.R., Kaushal, R., Escoto, K.H., et al. (In Press). A human factors framework and study of the effect of nursing workload on patient safety and employee quality of working life. Quality & Safety in Health Care.
• Holden, R.J.. (In Press). To blame is human (but the fix is to engineer). Professional Safety. December 2009.
• Karsh, B., Wetterneck, T., Holden, R.J., et al. (In Press). Bar coding in medication administration. In Y. Yih (Ed.) Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
• Holden, R.J. & Karsh, B. (2009). The Technology Acceptance Model: Its past and its future in health care. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 10.1016/j.jbi.2009.07.002
• Karsh, B., Holden, R.J., Escoto, K.H., Alper, S.J., et al. (2009). Do beliefs about hospital technologies predict nurse's perceptions of quality of care? A study of task-technology fit in two pediatric hospitals. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 25, 374-389.
• Holden, R.J. & Karsh, B. (2009). A theoretical model of health information technology usage behaviour with implications for patient safety. Behaviour & Information Technology, 28, 21-38.
• Holden, R.J., Or, C.K.L., Alper, S.J., Rivera, A.J., & Karsh, B. (2008). A change management framework for macroergonomic field research. Applied Ergonomics, 39, 459-474.
• Holden, R.J., & Karsh, B. (2007). A review of medical error reporting system design considerations and a proposed cross-level systems research framework. Human Factors, 49, 257-276.
• Karsh, B., & Holden, R.J. (2007). New technology implementation in healthcare. In P. Carayon (Ed.) Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Patient Safety (pp. 393-410). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Karsh, B., Holden, R.J., Alper, S.J., & Or, C.K.L. (2006). A human factors engineering paradigm for patient safety: Designing to support the performance of the healthcare professional. Quality & Safety in Health Care, 15(Suppl I), i59-i65.
• Karsh, B., Escoto, K.H., Beasley, J.W., & Holden, R.J. (2006). Toward a theoretical approach to medical error reporting system research and design. Applied Ergonomics, 37, 283-295.

Selected Awards as a Member of MESH Lab

• NIH Pre-doctoral Fellowship
• IBM Scholarship, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
• Hertz Foundation Fellowship
• Vilas Travel Grant
• Richard S. and Harriet K. Fein Graduate Scholarship
• Best Paper Selection, IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
• Derjani-Bayeh Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Scholarship for Macroergonomic Research
• Juran Doctoral Award, Joseph M. Juran Center for Leadership in Quality
• Student Member with Honors, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
• James P. Kohn Graduate Scholarship, American Society of Safety Engineers
• Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
• Award of Excellence, Phi Kappa Phi
• Zillman Summer Travel Grant, Phi Kappa Phi
• University League Research Grant
• University Bookstore Award of Excellence
• Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship