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Joshua R. Vest

Health Professions · Indiana University

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Mid career · publishing since 2002
Electronic Health Records SystemsHealthcare Systems and TechnologyFood Security and Health in Diverse PopulationsHealthcare Policy and ManagementPrimary Care and Health Outcomes

Publications

220

Citations

5,259

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

25

Publishing since 2002

Research summary
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Joshua R. Vest studies how health care systems can identify and respond to patients' non-medical needs, such as food, housing, and social circumstances that affect health (often called health-related social needs). Much of the work involves using electronic health records, health information exchange, and computer-based decision-support tools to screen for these needs and predict which patients face the greatest social risks. The research also examines health care organizations and policy, including topics like home health agency ownership and emergency department use.

Health-related social needs screeningElectronic health records and health information exchangeClinical decision support and risk predictionEmergency department care and useHealth care policy and management

Publication activity has been steady over the last decade, with output typically in the mid-teens per year (averaging about 12 over the last five years) after a dip in 2022.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

Current awards run through September 2029 — about 3 years of funding on record from today. Awards are often renewed, so this is what is currently public, not a forecast.

  • ActiveNIH RF1AG095083through Sep 2029 · $2.8M awarded

    Measuring social needs among older adults: psychometrics and policy

  • ActiveNIH R01HS028008through Oct 2026 · $381k awarded

    Predictive modeling for social needs in emergency department settings

4 earlier awards
  • NIH R01HS028636Sep 2021 – Aug 2026 · $397k awarded

    Computable social factor phenotyping using EHR and HIE data

  • NSF 2052691May 2021 – Apr 2022 · $20k awarded

     IUCRC Planning Grant Indiana University: Center for Population Health Analytics & Technology [CPHAT]

  • NIH R21HS024717Apr 2017 – Mar 2020 · $120k awarded

    The impact of enterprise health information exchange on organizational performance and local health care markets

  • NIH R01HS024556Sep 2016 – Sep 2019 · $118k awarded

    Use of push and pull health information exchange technologies by ambulatory care practices and the impact on potentially avoidable health care utilization

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 250 mid career Health Professions PIs within our index
Citations: 5,259cohort median 563
h-index: 37cohort median 11
Publications / year (recent): 11.8cohort median 3.2

Typically publishes in teams of ~5 · 23% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 70 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 11.8/year recently
2017: 11 publications172018: 17 publications182019: 22 publications22192020: 17 publications202021: 15 publications212022: 7 publications222023: 18 publications232024: 16 publications242025: 14 publications252026: 4 publications26
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 2 collaborators at the same institution2018: 1 collaborator at the same institution2019: 1 collaborator at the same institution2020: 0 collaborators at the same institution2021: 4 collaborators at the same institution2022: 0 collaborators at the same institution2023: 2 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 0 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association×12
  • AMIA×9
  • PubMed×8
  • JAMIA Open×7
  • Applied Clinical Informatics×5
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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