RubenAmarasinghamMD

Internal Medicine • Dallas, TX

Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Southwestern Medical School

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5123 Harry Hines Blvd
Phhs Support Bldg B, Rm G106
Dallas, TX 75235
Phone+1 214-590-6724

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Summary

Dr. Ruben Amarasingham, MD is an internist in Dallas, Texas. He is currently licensed to practice medicine in Texas. He is an Assistant Professor at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Education & Training

University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 1999 - 2002
University of Texas Southwestern Medical SchoolClass of 1999

Certifications & Licensure

TX State Medical License 2001 - 2017

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Pragmatic Trial of Hospitalization Rate in Chronic Kidney Disease.
Vazquez, M. A., Miguel A Vazquez, George Oliver, Ruben Amarasingham, Venkatraghavan Sundaram, Kevin Chan, Chul Ahn, Song Zhang, Perry Bickel, Samir M Parikh, Barbara W...> ;The New England Journal of Medicine. 2024 Apr 4
15 citations
Using Community Partnerships to Integrate Health and Social Services for High-Need, High-Cost Patients.
Ruben Amarashingham, Bin Xie, Albert Karam, Nam Q. Nguyen, Bianca Kapoor> ;Issue Brief. 2018 Jan 5
38 citations
Vital Signs Are Still Vital: Instability on Discharge and the Risk of Post-Discharge Adverse Outcomes.
Oanh Kieu Nguyen, Anil N. Makam, Christopher Clark, Song Zhang, Bin Xie, Ferdinand Velasco, Ruben Amarasingham, Ethan A. Halm> ;Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2017 Jan 1
7 citations
Initial Development of a Computer Algorithm to Identify Patients With Breast and Lung Cancer Having Poor Prognosis in a Safety Net Hospital
Ramona L. Rhodes, Sabiha Kazi, Lei Xuan, Ruben Amarasingham, Ethan A. Halm> ;The American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care. 2016 Aug 1
45 citations
Predicting all-cause readmissions using electronic health record data from the entire hospitalization: Model development and comparison.
Oanh Kieu Nguyen, Anil N. Makam, Christopher Clark, Song Zhang, Bin Xie, Ferdinand Velasco, Ruben Amarasingham, Ethan A. Halm> ;Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2016 Jul 1
33 citations
Consensus Statement on Electronic Health Predictive Analytics: A Guiding Framework to Address Challenges.
Ruben Amarasingham, Anne-Marie J. Audet, David W. Bates, I. Glenn Cohen, Martin Entwistle, Gabriel J. Escobar, Vincent X. Liu, Lynn Etheredge, Bernard Lo, Lucila Ohno-...> ;EGEMS. 2016 Mar 7
51 citations
Electronic medical record-based multicondition models to predict the risk of 30 day readmission or death among adult medicine patients: validation and comparison to ex...
Ruben Amarasingham, Ferdinand Velasco, Bin Xie, Christopher Clark, Ying Ma, Song Zhang, Deepa Bhat, Brian Lucena, Marco D. Huesch, Ethan A. Halm> ;BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2015 May 20
20 citations
Envisioning a Social-Health Information Exchange as a Platform to Support a Patient-Centered Medical Neighborhood: A Feasibility Study
Oanh Kieu Nguyen, Connie V. Chan, Anil N. Makam, Heather Stieglitz, Ruben Amarasingham> ;Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2015 Jan 1
89 citations
Implementing Electronic Health Care Predictive Analytics: Considerations And Challenges
Ruben Amarasingham, Rachel E. Patzer, Marco D. Huesch, Nam Q. Nguyen, Bin Xie> ;Health Affairs. 2014 Jul 1
92 citations
The Legal And Ethical Concerns That Arise From Using Complex Predictive Analytics In Health Care
I. Glenn Cohen, Ruben Amarasingham, Anand Shah, Bin Xie, Bernard Lo> ;Health Affairs. 2014 Jul 1
65 citations
An Automated Model Using Electronic Medical Record Data Identifies Patients With Cirrhosis at High Risk for Readmission
Amit G. Singal, Robert S. Rahimi, Christopher Clark, Ying Ma, Jennifer A. Cuthbert, Don C. Rockey, Ruben Amarasingham> ;Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2013 Oct 1
92 citations
Allocating scarce resources in real-time to reduce heart failure readmissions: a prospective, controlled study
Ruben Amarasingham, Parag C. Patel, Kathleen T. Toto, Lauren L. Nelson, Timothy S. Swanson, Billy J. Moore, Bin Xie, Song Zhang, Kristin S. Alvarez, Ying Ma, Mark H. D...> ;BMJ Quality & Safety. 2013 Jul 31
25 citations
Identifying patients with diabetes and the earliest date of diagnosis in real time: an electronic health record case-finding algorithm
Anil N. Makam, Oanh Kieu Nguyen, Billy J. Moore, Ying Ma, Ruben Amarasingham> ;BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2013 Aug 1
157 citations
Use of administrative claims data for identifying patients with cirrhosis.
Mahendra Nehra, Ying Ma, Christopher Clark, Ruben Amarasingham, Don C. Rockey, Amit G. Singal> ;Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. 2013 May 1
35 citations
Predicting out of intensive care unit cardiopulmonary arrest or death using electronic medical record data
Carlos A. Alvarez, Christopher Clark, Song Zhang, Ethan A. Halm, John J Shannon, Carlos E. Girod, Lauren Cooper, Ruben Amarasingham> ;BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2013 Feb 27
Applying Data Analytics And Information Exchange To Improve Care For Patients
Ruben Amarasingham> ;Health Affairs. 2012 Dec 1
44 citations
An electronic medical record-based model to predict 30-day risk of readmission and death among HIV-infected inpatients.
Ank E. Nijhawan, Christopher Clark, Richard Kaplan, Billy J. Moore, Ethan A. Halm, Ruben Amarasingham> ;Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2012 Nov 1
An electronic medical record-based model to predict 30 day risk of readmission and death among HIV- infected inpatientsssss.
Nijhawan, A., Clark, C., Kaplan, R., Moore, B., Halm, E., Amarasingham, R.> ;J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2012 Aug 25
302 citations
An automated model to identify heart failure patients at risk for 30-day readmission or death using electronic medical record data.
Ruben Amarasingham, Billy J. Moore, Ying P. Tabak, Mark H. Drazner, Christopher Clark, Song Zhang, W. Gary Reed, Timothy S. Swanson, Ying Ma, Ethan A. Halm> ;Medical Care. 2010 Nov 1
19 citations
A rapid admission protocol to reduce emergency department boarding times
Ruben Amarasingham, Timothy S. Swanson, D B Treichler, S N Amarasingham, W G Reed> ;Quality & Safety in Health Care. 2010 Jun 1
211 citations
Clinical Information Technologies and Inpatient Outcomes: A Multiple Hospital Study
Ruben Amarasingham, Laura C. Plantinga, Marie Diener-West, Darrell J. Gaskin, Neil R. Powe> ;Archives of Internal Medicine. 2009 Jan 26
12 citations
Hospital characteristics associated with highly automated and usable clinical information systems in Texas, United States
Ruben Amarasingham, Marie Diener-West, Laura C. Plantinga, Aaron C Cunningham, Darrell J. Gaskin, Neil R. Powe> ;BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2008 Sep 15
Comparing the financial condition of Texas hospitals using a novel definition for the safety net.
Brett D Stauffer, Ruben Amarasingham, Sue Pickens, Ronald Anderson> ;Texas Medicine. 2008 Aug 1
15 citations
Measuring clinical information technology in the ICU setting: application in a quality improvement collaborative.
Ruben Amarasingham, Peter J. Pronovost, Marie Diener-West, Christine A. Goeschel, Todd Dorman, David R. Thiemann, Neil R. Powe> ;Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2007 May 1
10 citations
The quest for quality: perspectives from the safety net.
Ronald Anderson, Ruben Amarasingham, Sue Pickens> ;Frontiers of Health Services Management. 2007 Jan 1
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Press Mentions

Screening for Social Determinants of Health: Active and Passive Information Retrieval MethodsNovember 28th, 2022
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