Description of Research Expertise

Most Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were originally designed to capture data related to the care of adults primarily in hospitalized settings. Dr. Luberti's focus since the early 2000's has been to assist in the design, development, and implementation of various EHR systems, with the intention of measuring and improving patient outcomes, specifically in the pediatric population and in ambulatory settings.
Recently, he led efforts in the development and integration of novel, patient-facing, pediatric screening tools into the Electronic Health Record (EHR) at CHOP, specifically focusing on screeners of pediatric well-being. His research also focuses on computerized decision support (CDS) tools and integration of scored results and management resources into the EHR to improve patient outcomes.
- Jenssen BP, DiFiore G, Powell M, Luberti AA et al. Accelerating Innovation in Primary Care to Support Adolescent Health Discussions. Pediatrics. 2024;154:1.
- Jenssen BP, Ramachandran J, DiFiore G, Luberti AA et al. Meeting Adolescents Where They Are: Hybrid Virtual-in-Person Visits for Routine Preventive Care. Annals of family medicine. 2023;21:376-376.
- Campbell IM, Karavite DJ, Mcmanus ML, Luberti AA et al. Clinical decision support with a comprehensive in-EHR patient tracking system improves genetic testing follow up. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2023;30:1274-1283.

Description of Clinical Expertise

Dr. Luberti is board-certified in Pediatrics and is a primary care pediatrician in the CHOP Care Network, with a focus and expertise in resident and medical student education.
Dr. Luberti's area of clinical expertise has been in the field of pediatric nurse triage. In the 1990’s, determination of best location of care of children after-hours was increasingly performed by nurses using standardized protocols. Dr. Luberti's research and operational expertise has been to determine the efficacy of this non-physician driven system of pediatric care management.
- Kempe A, Luberti A, Belman S, Hertz A, Sherman H, Amin D, Dempsey C, Chandramouli U, MacKenzie T. Outcomes associated with pediatric after-hours care by call centers: a multicenter study. Ambul Pediatr. 3(4):211-7, Jul-Aug 2003.
- Scarfone, RJ., Luberti, AA., Mistry, RD. Outcomes of Children Referred to an Emergency Department by an After-Hours Call Center. Pediatric Emergency Care. 20(6):367-372, June 2004.
- Fishe JN, Luberti AA, Master CL, Robinson RL, Grady MF, Arbogast KB, Zonfrillo MR., After-Hours Call Center Triage of Pediatric Head Injury: Outcomes After a Concussion Initiative. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2016 Mar;32(3):149-53.

Description of Other Expertise

Clinical Informatics--Fellowship and Education:
Dr. Luberti is board-certified in the medical subspecialty of Clinical Informatics through the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM). As Medical Director of Informatics Education since 2012 in the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics at CHOP hosting various monthly informatics educational offerings for clinicians, researchers, students, and information technology professionals.

In 2012, Dr. Luberti launched the nationally renowned, ACGME-accredited, 2-year Fellowship Program in Clinical Informatics. In 2024, the Program has officially partnered with the Institute for Biomedical Informatics at PSOM and Faculty from both CHOP and Penn contribute to the mentorship of numerous research and project-based, rotational and didactic educational activities of the fellows. Dr. Luberti also leads informatics educational offerings for CHOP and Penn Resident Physicians and PSOM Medical Students, including an "Area of Concentration in Clinical Informatics " and Elective courses (ITD 331).
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- Mai MV, Luo BT, Orenstein EW, Luberti AA. A Model for Clinical Informatics Education for Residents: Addressing an Unmet Need, Appl Clin Inform 2018 Apr,9(2):261-267.
- Orenstein EW, Rasooly IR, Luberti A, Bonafide CP, et al. Influence of simulation on electronic health record use patterns among pediatric residents. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2018 Nov 1;25(11):1501-1506.
- Palma JP, Hron JD, Luberti AA. Early experiences with combined fellowship training in clinical informatics. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2020;27:788-792.
- Mai MV, Orenstein EW, Manning JD, Luberti AA, Dziorny AC. Attributing Patients to Pediatric Residents Using Electronic Health Record Features Augmented with Audit Logs. Applied clinical informatics. 2020;11:442-451.

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Global Health Informatics:

Since 2009, in conjunction with the Botswana UPenn Partnership (BUP), Dr. Luberti has been involved in informatics capacity building in developing countries, specifically Botswana, through support of the "PEPFAR2" grant through the CDC (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief). The goal is to provide mentoring and in-service technical assistance to improve capacity and sustainability of health care workers in Botswana in the areas of complications of HIV, HIV-TB co-infection, MDR-TB, and cervical cancer screening in HIV infected women. Specifically Dr. Luberti has been involved in informatics curriculum development and faculty capacity building. Some of these efforts have resulted in research and mentored collaborations, specifically related to mobile telemedicine initiatives.
More recently, Dr. Luberti has been the recipient of a Fulbright Specialist Program Scholarship (2013-2018) from the US State Department, with the focus of "Capacity Building in Health Informatics at the University of Botswana". The goal is to increase the capacity of the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) at the University of Botswana (UB) to deliver the Health Informatics undergraduate courses independently. The program empowers graduates across disciplines to utilize technology and data in the management of patients and health information.
In 2020, with the generous support of the CHOP Research Institute, Dr Luberti was one of the founding faculty of the "Global Health Informatics Program". Under the leadership of Dr. Sansanee Craig and in collaboration with the CHOP Global Health Program, he launched an initiative to support informatics educational, clinical, research, and advocacy efforts in low-resource settings.
- Littman-Quinn R, Luberti AA, Kovarik C. mHealth to revolutionize information retrieval in low and middle income countries: introduction and proposed solutions using Botswana as reference point. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:894-8.
- Ha YP, Tesfalul MA, Littman-Quinn R, Antwi C, Green RS, Mapila TO, Bellamy SL, Ncube RT, Mugisha K, Ho-Foster AR, Luberti AA, Holmes JH, Steenhoff AP, Kovarik CL., Evaluation of a Mobile Health Approach to Tuberculosis Contact Tracing in Botswana, Journal of Health Communication 00: 1–7, 2016.
- Faulkenberry JG, Luberti A, Craig S. Electronic health records, mobile health, and the challenge of improving global health. Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care. 2022;52:101111-101111.