Cedric J. Priebe III - Pediatrics Faculty Profile

Cedric J. Priebe III
Pediatrician • Assistant Professor, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1988
401-277-3615
Cedric_Priebe@Brown.edu

As Chief Information Officer for the Care New England Health System, Dr. Cedric Priebe is responsible for the development and productive use of clinical information systems at Butler Hospital, Kent Hospital and Women & Infants Hospital. To address the breadth of clinical information and work flow challenges inherent in the adoption of information technology tools by clinical users, the Care New England Clinical Informatics Group (CIG) was established upon Dr. Priebe’s arrival to Providence in 2005. Among the areas of focus of the CIG are the implementations of the Cerner Millennium system at Kent Hospital and Women & Infants Hospital and the Avatar system at the Butler Hospital, collectively branded as the CNErgy Projects. These projects will upgrade and replace several administrative systems that support patient care and several clinical systems including nursing documentation, laboratory management, result repository, operating room management, and order communication. New areas of functionality being implemented in the CNErgy Project include Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), bedside medication administration with bar-code scanning, and digital diagnostic image archive and communication (PACS).

Dr. Priebe’s particular areas of research interest and investigation in medical informatics include the effectiveness of automated in-process decision support to improve safety and quality of patient care. He is also serving as co-chair of the Rhode Island Quality Institute project to create a statewide network for clinical information exchange funded by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

As an attending in the Women & Infants newborn nurseries, Dr. Priebe is able to participate in medical education of pediatric residents and Brown medical students.

Selected Publications
• “Workflow automation with electronic medical records”. in Norris T et al. ed. Informatics in Primary Care, First Edition, NewYork: Springer-Verlag, Inc., 2002.
• Johnson CE, Bachur R, Priebe C, Barnes-Ruth A, Lovejoy FH Jr, Hafler JP. Developing residents as teachers: process and content. Pediatrics 1996; 97: 907-16.