I am an assistant professor in the Information School at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where I am part of the Collaborative Computing Group.
I am also an honorary associate in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, affiliate faculty in the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and affiliate faculty in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics.
My research spans the areas of health informatics and human-computer interaction. I study how people interact with electronic health records (EHRs), how we can use traces of EHR activity to study collaborative workflows in healthcare, and how people tell stories with data.
Selected Publications google scholar
JHM 2025 journal
Employing EHR usage data to improve care requires clinician engagement and trust.
Adam Rule, Robert El-Kareh.
JAMIA 2024 journal
Guidance For Reporting Analyses of Metadata on Electronic Health Record Use.
Adam Rule, Thomas Kannampallil, Michelle R Hribar, Adam C Dziorny, Robert Thombley,Nate C Apathy, Julia Adler-Milstein.
JGIM 2022 journal
Gender Differences in Primary Care Physicians’ Electronic Health Record Use over Time: an Observational Study.
Adam Rule, Christina M. Shafer, Mark A. Micek, Jeffrey J. Baltus, Christine A. Sinsky, Brian G. Arndt.
JAMIA 2022 journal
Using event logs to observe interactions with electronic health records: an updated scoping review shows increasing use of vendor-derived measures.
Adam Rule, Edward R Melnick, Nate C Apathy.
JAMIA 2022 journal
Frequent but fragmented: use of note templates to document outpatient visits at an academic health center.
Adam Rule, Michelle Hribar.
JAMA Network Open 2021 journal
Length and Redundancy of Outpatient Progress Notes Across a Decade at an Academic Medical Center.
Adam Rule, Steven Bedrick, Michael Chiang, Michelle Hribar.
JAMIA 2020 journal
Using Electronic Health Record Audit Logs to Study Clinical Activity: A Systematic Review of Aims, Measures, and Methods.
Adam Rule, Michelle Hribar, Michael Chiang.
CHI 2018 conf · pdf · video
Exploration and Explanation in Computational Notebooks.
Adam Rule, Aurélien Tabard, Jim Hollan.
Honorable Mention
News
Dec 21, 2023
Out now in JAMIA, guidance for reporting analyses of EHR metadata.
Jun 21, 2023
Out now in JAMA Network Open, differences in EHR use by FTE.
Dec 6, 2022
Out now in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, gender differences in EHR use.
Aug 23, 2021
Excited to be joining the iSchool at UW-Madison as an Assistant Professor.
Teaching
Spring 2025 - LIS 612
Spring 2025 - LIS 612 (Online)
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