Jeffrey Gold

Jeffrey Gold is a Senior Professor at Oregon Health & Science University, where his research focuses on digital health, health informatics, and health policy. His work examines electronic health record (EHR) usability, information overload, and documentation errors, including the impact of copy-paste practices and ambient digital scribe platforms. Recent publications investigate patient portal usability gaps, EHR use variation by specialty, and barriers to leveraging patient safety event reviews for diagnostic error reduction. His research also addresses infection control, as seen in his investigation of a Burkholderia cepacia complex pseudo-outbreak. Gold’s interdisciplinary scholarship bridges emergency medicine, nursing, and health information science to improve clinical workflows, patient safety, and health technology design.