COIN Team
COIN Team
-
Ellen Ahlness, PhD
- Title: Qualitative Methodologist, Research Health Science Specialist
- Contact: ellen.a.ahlnessabdulmuminov@va.gov
- Location: Seattle
- See Dr. Ahlness's Dimensions profile that includes: publications, grants, datasets, patents and clinical trials
- I am a qualitative methodologist, social scientist, and health systems researcher. I work as a qualitative methodologist at the Denver-Seattle Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value Driven Care at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle, WA.
Over the past decade my work has followed a trajectory examining the effects of policy and programs on members of historically underserved and underrepresented groups, especially Indigenous peoples. This includes developing research designs and integrating novel qualitative methods to best adapt to project needs and elevate the voices of research participants. I continue this work as a member of the COIN’s DEI committee and the Seattle Qualitative Core. More recently, my work with VA has involved subjects including Electronic Health Record Modernization, Health Professions Trainees, and cardiology care.
I approach research as a process done alongside colleagues and with participants as co-researchers. Doing work that has the potential to improve the lives of Veterans is meaningful to me on multiple levels; the research that my colleagues and COIN do improves the health and care experiences of Veterans—including those across this nation, in our communities, and in my own family.
The following images visualize Dr. Ahlness's work. The word cloud is drawn from publication titles. The research collaboration map shows research relationships (click the image to enlarge):
Recent Publications
2024
Ball SL, Kim B, Cutrona SL, Molloy-Paolillo BK, Ahlness E, Moldestad M, Sayre G, Rinne ST. Clinician and staff experiences with frustrated patients during an electronic health record transition: a qualitative case study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Apr 26;24(1):535. doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-10974-5. PMCID: PMC11046755.
PMID: 38671473
Ahlness, Ellen A. (2024) "Listening to Our Bodies: Adapting Member Checks in Community Workspaces," Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 4. Available at: https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/vol9/iss1/4
2023
Ahlness EA, Molloy-Paolillo BK, Brunner J, Cutrona SL, Kim B, Matteau E, Rinne ST, Walton E, Wong E, Sayre G. Impacts of an Electronic Health Record Transition on Veterans Health Administration Health Professions Trainee Experience. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Oct 5. doi: 10.1007/s11606-023-08283-4. Epub ahead of print.
PMID: 37798576
Ahlness EA, Orlander J, Brunner J, Cutrona SL, Kim B, Molloy-Paolillo BK, Rinne ST, Rucci J, Sayre G, Anderson E. "Everything's so Role-Specific": VA Employee Perspectives' on Electronic Health Record (EHR) Transition Implications for Roles and Responsibilities. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Oct 5. doi: 10.1007/s11606-023-08282-5. Epub ahead of print.
PMID: 37798577
Media (Posters, Cyberseminars, etc.
Posters
Ellen A. Ahlness, Brianne Molloy Paolillo, Julian Brunner, Sarah L. Cutrona, Bo Kim, Erin Matteau, Seppo Rinne, Edward Walton, Edwin Wong, George Sayre
See full-size When Learning Curves Compound:Mixed Method Analysis of Health Professions Trainee Experience during an Electronic Health Record Transition
Ellen A. Ahlness PhD, Julian Brunner PhD, Sarah L. Cutrona MD MPH, Bo Kim PhD, Brianne Molloy Paolillo PhD, Seppo T. Rinne MD PhD, Justin Rucci MD, George Sayre PsyD, Jay Orlander MD MPH, Ekaterina Anderson PhD
See full-size "Everything’s so role specific": VA employee perspectives on Electronic Health Record (EHR) transition implications for roles and responsibilities
Brianne K. Molloy-Paolillo, PhD; Sherry Ball, PhD; Adena Cohen-Bearak, MPH M.Ed.; Ekaterina Anderson, PhD; Julian Brunner, PhD; Ellen Ahlness, PhD; Deborah Levy, MD; George Sayre, PsyD; Seppo Rinne, MD, PhD
See full-size The Adverse Impact of EHR-to-EHR Transitions on Employee Well-Being: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey and Interview Data at an Early VA EHR Transition Site
Ellen A. Ahlness PhD
See full-size Making the most of mixed methods Practical considerations to support qualitative data collection and analysis from survey free text responses
Ellen A. Ahlness PhD
See full-size Are we learning? Creating and evaluating reflexivity activities to support DEI responsive health systems research teams
Seppo Rinne MD PhD; Megan Moldestad MS; Christian Helfrich PhD; Bo Kim PhD; Ekaterina Anderson PhD; Ellen Ahlness, PhD; Sherry Ball, PhD; Julian Brunner PhD; Adena Cohen Bearak MPH MEd; Sarah Cutrona MD MPH; Brianne Molloy Paolillo PhD; Jay Orlander MD; Justin Rucci MD; George Sayre PsyD
See full-size Improvement opportunities for VA’s electronic health record transition: A mixed methods evaluation of clinician experiences
HSR Cyberseminars
- Revisiting Focus Groups: A Systematic Approach to Collaboration beyond Operational Partners in Generating Evaluation Recommendations
- by Ellen Ahlness, PhD; Sherry Ball, PhD
- Seminar date: 7/18/2023
- Revisiting Focus Groups: A Systematic Approach to Collaboration beyond Operational Partners in Generating Evaluation Recommendations
- “I knew it was going to be hard”: Findings and Recommendations from Columbus VAMC Clinician and Staff Experiences with EHRM (intranet only)
- by Ellen Ahlness, PhD; Sherry Ball, PhD
- Seminar date: 3/22/2023
- Health Professions Trainees’ Experiences with VA's Electronic Health Record Modernization: Spotlighting User Voices and Initial Findings from the SCHOLAR QUERI Evaluation (intranet only)
- by Ellen Ahlness, PhD; Sherry Ball, PhD
- Seminar date: 10/26/2022
