Raman Khanna, MD, MAS

Professor of Clinical Medicine

Dr. Raman Khanna is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF and Medical Director of Inpatient Informatics at UCSF Health. He received his BA and MD, and subsequently completed his residency, at Northwestern University, following which he completed a research fellowship and Masters in Clinical Research at UCSF.

Raman's work centers on the design and implementation of information technology applications in health care. He helped create CareWeb, a project to transform clinical communication within and between providers and their teams, and now co-chairs the Digital Diagnostics and Therapeutics Committee which seeks to improve and regulate access to the UCSF electronic Health Record via its increasingly robust APIs.

Raman is the Program Director for the Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program.

For his clinical time Raman attends on the Medicine Teaching services.

Areas of Specialization/Research Interests include:
Inter-provider communication
Information technology
Decision support
API Integration
Venous Thromboembolism

Education
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
M.A.S. in Clinical Research, 2011 - Graduate Division (Advance Training in Clinical Research), University of California, San Francisco
Publications

  1. Flynn SJ, Hsiang EY, Kantor MA, Rao MN, Khanna R. All That Beeps is Not Urgent: Hospitalist and Nurse Concordance of Assigning Priority Classification to Pages. Journal of general internal medicine 2024. PMID: 39227541


  2. Raghu Subramanian C, Yang DA, Khanna R. Enhancing Health Care Communication With Large Language Models-The Role, Challenges, and Future Directions. JAMA network open 2024. PMID: 38466311


  3. Lingham V, Chandwarkar A, Miller M, Baker C, Genes N, Hellems M, Khanna R, Mize D, Silverman H. A Systematic Approach to the Design and Implementation of Clinical Informatics Fellowship Programs. Applied clinical informatics 2023. PMID: 38057262


  4. Ravi A, Arvisais-Anhalt S, Weia B, Khanna R, Adler-Milstein J, Auerbach AD. Governance of Electronic Health Record Modification at US Academic Medical Centers. Applied clinical informatics 2023. PMID: 37553071


  5. Khanna R, Auerbach A. Just-in-Time Digital Health Interventions-Start of a New Era With Much More to Do. JAMA internal medicine 2023. PMID: 37459109


  6. Khoong EC, Sherwin EB, Harrison JD, Wheeler M, Shah SJ, Mourad M, Khanna R. Impact of standardized, language-concordant hospital discharge instructions on postdischarge medication questions. Journal of hospital medicine 2023. PMID: 37490045


  7. Grouse CK, Waung MW, Holmgren AJ, Mongan J, Neinstein A, Josephson SA, Khanna RR. Behavioral "nudges" in the electronic health record to reduce waste and misuse: 3 interventions. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2022. PMID: 36519951


  8. Khanna RR, Murray SG, Wen T, Salmeen K, Illangasekare T, Benfield N, Adler-Milstein J, Savage L. Protecting reproductive health information in the post-Roe era: interoperability strategies for healthcare institutions. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2022. PMID: 36287823


  9. Sakumoto M, Khanna R. Using Technology to Enhance Communication. The Medical clinics of North America 2022. PMID: 35725235


  10. Huppert LA, Hsu G, Elnachef N, Flint L, Frank JA, Gensler LS, Hsiao EC, Khanna RR, Qasim A, Schwartz BS, Widera E, Zapata C, Babik JM. A single center evaluation of applicant experiences in virtual interviews across eight internal medicine subspecialty fellowship programs. Medical education online 2021. PMID: 34187346


  11. Sukumar S, Zakaria A, Lai CJ, Sakumoto M, Khanna R, Choi N. Designing and Implementing a Novel Virtual Rounds Curriculum for Medical Students' Internal Medicine Clerkship During the COVID-19 Pandemic. MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 2021. PMID: 33768143


  12. Subash M, Sakumoto M, Bass J, Hong P, Muniyappa A, Pierce L, Purmal C, Ramaswamy P, Sono R, Uptegraft C, Feinstein D, Khanna R. The emerging role of clinical informatics fellows in service learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021. PMID: 33164076


  13. Huppert LA, Hsiao EC, Cho KC, Marquez C, Chaudhry RI, Frank J, Goglin SE, Hsu G, Kathpalia P, Khanna R, Kompala T, Rao MN, Bower BA, Trafas V, Santhosh L, Schwartz BS, Babik JM. Virtual Interviews at Graduate Medical Education Training Programs: Determining Evidence-Based Best Practices. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2020. PMID: 33298691


  14. Chu CD, Tuot DS, Harrison JD, Duong J, Luxenberg A, Khanna RR. Completeness and quality of text paging for subspecialty consult requests. Postgraduate medical journal 2020. PMID: 32820085


  15. Auerbach AD, Khanna R, Adler-Milstein J. Letting a Good Crisis Go to Waste. Journal of general internal medicine 2019. PMID: 31745851


  16. Jue VI, Khanna RR. The Best Laid Plans-Medication Reconciliation Optimization in Theory and Practice. Journal of hospital medicine 2019. PMID: 31577223


  17. Najafi N, Cucina R, Khanna R. Effectiveness of a Best Practice Alert to Reduce Telemetry Orders-Reply. JAMA internal medicine 2019. PMID: 31157847


  18. Ghazvinian R, White RH, Gage BF, Fang MC, Saeed R, Khanna RR. Predictive value of the present-on-admission indicator for hospital-associated hemorrhage. Thrombosis research 2019. PMID: 31163300


  19. Rojek AE, Khanna R, Yim JWL, Gardner R, Lisker S, Hauer KE, Lucey C, Sarkar U. Differences in Narrative Language in Evaluations of Medical Students by Gender and Under-represented Minority Status. Journal of general internal medicine 2019. PMID: 30993609


  20. Najafi N, Cucina R, Pierre B, Khanna R. Assessment of a Targeted Electronic Health Record Intervention to Reduce Telemetry Duration: A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA internal medicine 2018. PMID: 30535345


  21. Auerbach AD, Neinstein A, Khanna R. Balancing Innovation and Safety When Integrating Digital Tools Into Health Care. Annals of internal medicine 2018. PMID: 30326099


  22. Groningen NV, Prasad PA, Najafi N, Rajkomar A, Khanna RR, Fang MC. Electronic Order Volume as a Meaningful Component in Estimating Patient Complexity and Resident Physician Workload. Journal of hospital medicine 2018. PMID: 30156577


  23. Auerbach AD, Neinstein A, Khanna R. Balancing Innovation and Safety When Integrating Digital Tools Into Health Care. Annals of internal medicine 2018. PMID: 29582072


  24. Sankaran S, Ravi PS, Wu YE, Shanabogue S, Ashok S, Agnew K, Fang MC, Khanna RA, Dandu M, Harrison JD. An NGO-Implemented Community-Clinic Health Worker Approach to Providing Long-Term Care for Hypertension in a Remote Region of Southern India. Global health, science and practice 2017. PMID: 29284700


  25. Murray SG, Yim JWL, Croci R, Rajkomar A, Schmajuk G, Khanna R, Cucina RJ. Using Spatial and Temporal Mapping to Identify Nosocomial Disease Transmission of Clostridium difficile. JAMA internal medicine 2017. PMID: 29059280


  26. Wang MD, Khanna R, Najafi N. Characterizing the Source of Text in Electronic Health Record Progress Notes. JAMA internal medicine 2017. PMID: 28558106


  27. Luxenberg A, Chan B, Khanna R, Sarkar U. Efficiency and Interpretability of Text Paging Communication for Medical Inpatients: A Mixed-Methods Analysis. Volume 177 of Issue 8. JAMA internal medicine 2017. PMID: 28628695


  28. Elias P, Khanna R, Dudley A, Davies J, Jacolbia R, McArthur K, Auerbach AD. Automating Venous Thromboembolism Risk Calculation Using Electronic Health Record Data upon Hospital Admission: The Automated Padua Prediction Score. Journal of hospital medicine 2017. PMID: 28411291


  29. Jenkins IH, White RH, Amin AN, Afsarmanesh N, Auerbach AD, Khanna R, Maynard GA. Reducing the incidence of hospital-associated venous thromboembolism within a network of academic hospitals: Findings from five University of California medical centers. Journal of hospital medicine 2016. PMID: 27925421


  30. Khanna RR, Wachter RM, Blum M. Reimagining Electronic Clinical Communication in the Post-Pager, Smartphone Era. JAMA 2016. PMID: 26746450


  31. Khanna RR, Kim SB, Jenkins I, El-Kareh R, Afsarmanesh N, Amin A, Sand H, Auerbach A, Chia CY, Maynard G, Romano PS, White RH. Predictive value of the present-on-admission indicator for hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism. Medical care 2015. PMID: 23552437


  32. Fontil V, Bibbins-Domingo K, Kazi DS, Sidney S, Coxson PG, Khanna R, Victor RG, Pletcher MJ. Simulating Strategies for Improving Control of Hypertension Among Patients with Usual Source of Care in the United States: The Blood Pressure Control Model. Journal of general internal medicine 2015. PMID: 25749880


  33. Khanna R, Stoddard PJ, Gonzales EN, Villagran-Flores M, Thomson J, Bayard P, Palos Lucio AG, Schillinger D, Bertozzi S, Gonzales R. An automated telephone nutrition support system for Spanish-speaking patients with diabetes. Journal of diabetes science and technology 2014. PMID: 25239122


  34. Greysen SR, Khanna RR, Jacolbia R, Lee HM, Auerbach AD. Tablet computers for hospitalized patients: a pilot study to improve inpatient engagement. Journal of hospital medicine 2014. PMID: 24523051


  35. Khanna R, Maynard G, Sadeghi B, Hensley L, Medvedev S, Danielsen B, White RH. Incidence of hospital-acquired venous thromboembolic codes in medical patients hospitalized in academic medical centers. Journal of hospital medicine 2014. PMID: 24497463


  36. Shoeb M, Khanna R, Fang M, Sharpe B, Finn K, Ranji S, Monash B. Internal medicine rounding practices and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education core competencies. Volume 9 of Issue 4. Journal of hospital medicine 2014. PMID: 24493566


  37. Khanna R, Yen T. Computerized physician order entry: promise, perils, and experience. The Neurohospitalist 2014. PMID: 24381708


  38. Fontil V, Pletcher MJ, Khanna R, Guzman D, Victor R, Bibbins-Domingo K. Physician underutilization of effective medications for resistant hypertension at office visits in the United States: NAMCS 2006-2010. Journal of general internal medicine 2013. PMID: 24249113


  39. Moriates C, Novelero M, Quinn K, Khanna R, Mourad M. "Nebs no more after 24": a pilot program to improve the use of appropriate respiratory therapies. JAMA internal medicine 2013. PMID: 23877555


  40. Khanna RR, Victor RG, Bibbins-Domingo K, Shapiro MF, Pletcher MJ. Missed opportunities for treatment of uncontrolled hypertension at physician office visits in the United States, 2005 through 2009. Archives of internal medicine 2012. PMID: 22869238


  41. Khanna RR, Karliner LS, Eck M, Vittinghoff E, Koenig CJ, Fang MC. Performance of an online translation tool when applied to patient educational material. Volume 6 of Issue 9. Journal of hospital medicine 2011. PMID: 22034196


  42. Khanna R, Vittinghoff E, Maselli J, Auerbach A. Unintended consequences of a standard admission order set on venous thromboembolism prophylaxis and patient outcomes. Journal of general internal medicine 2011. PMID: 21948203


  43. Khanna R, Wachsberg K, Marouni A, Feinglass J, Williams MV, Wayne DB. The association between night or weekend admission and hospitalization-relevant patient outcomes. Journal of hospital medicine 2010. PMID: 21241035