Nicholas Riley, MD, PHD

Family Medicine

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About Me

Joined MetroHealth: 2017
Academic Affiliations: AssistantProfessor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Dr. Riley is an ambulatory family physician and fellowship-trained clinical informaticist interested in bridging the gap between operational and research informatics. His recent research has focused on expanding the role of imaging clinical decision support beyond application of appropriateness criteria and improving the completeness and clinical relevance of discrete external data (e.g. immunizations and medications) available at the point of care.

PUBLICATIONS

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PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

American Medical Informatics Association
American Academy of Family Physicians

Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program Information

Informatics Role – Director of Clinical Informatics – Ambulatory Care

Role in Fellowship Program – Assistant Program Director and Introduction to Clinical Informatics and Advanced Core Rotations Co-Director

Brief Description – During medical school, Dr. Riley spent a year commercializing a primary care-focused electronic medical record developed at the Massachusetts General Hospital Laboratory for Computer Science. In residency, he pursued elective rotations in clinical research informatics and clinical decision support.  At MetroHealth, he has built systems and processes for radiology clinical decision support, health information exchange, telehealth, and chronic disease management. He has been involved in research projects to improve lung cancer screening, reduce cardiovascular risk in HIV, reduce tobacco smoke exposure in children and build a biorepository for HIV and substance use.

SPECIFIC RESEARCH INTERESTS  

  • Health information exchange
  • Imaging clinical decision support

Selected Recent Projects

Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Ordering: In partnership with a DME vendor and stakeholders who frequently interact with DME (physical and occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, and nutrition), we have systematically reviewed, consolidated, and updated common DME orders to improve documentation completeness and reduce insurance denials while streamlining the ordering process.

Lung Cancer Screening: We have studied and refined the design of our lung cancer screening orders and workflow to better integrate this complex preventive care service into our health system. Recent improvements (2023) include an In Basket-based workflow for pended follow-up orders including remediation of inadequate smoking history and persisting exposure information between annual screenings, reducing unnecessary duplicate data entry.

Eliminating Duplicate Referrals: I built an alert that appears when a duplicate referral is being placed. It exposes existing unscheduled referrals and allows an ordering provider to easily provide the patient with scheduling information for their existing referral, helping reduce clutter in referral work queues, or document why the referral is not a duplicate (e.g., multiple referrals to the same specialty for different reasons). It has been highly effective, eliminating approximately 50% of potentially duplicate referrals.

Education & Training

Education

Medical Education

University of Illinois College of Medicine (Chicago) MD

Fellowship

MetroHealth Medical Center (Ohio) – Clinical Informatics

Residency

Fletcher Allen Health Care/U of VT Med Ctr (Vermont) – Family Medicine

Internship

Fletcher Allen Health Care/U of VT Med Ctr (Vermont) – Family Medicine

Board Certifications

American Board of Family Medicine - Family Medicine
American Board of Preventive Medicine - Clinical Informatics

Ratings & Reviews

Overall Patient Rating 4.7
62 ratings

Reviews

Patient Rating
5/5

Very courteous and thorough and doesn't leave any stone turned turned and always listens to my concerns. He's just a wonderful man. It's kept me alive for a few years now and I appreciate it. Along with a few of your other staff, of course.

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5/5

They do there job right

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He is an asome doctor.

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5/5

He's very thorough, listens well & had my test results later that day & sent me the info on mychart immediately.

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5/5

So I don't know if provider means like Metro Health or if provider means my doctor. If provider means Metro Health, they could do better. There's like billing issues that have gone, are still unresolved. There's the over-scheduled doctors. They're all about like sucking up some insurance money. But if you're asking about my doctor as my provider, he's great. He's awesome. He's knowledgeable. He's funny. He makes me very comfortable. He remembers. I have an obscene amount of health problems that he somehow remembers. My provider being my doctor is awesome. My provider, if my provider, you're referring to Metro Hospital, I don't know. They're money hungry or something. I don't know. It's typical.

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5/5

Dr Riley works so hard and provides an excellent listening and teaching experience.

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5/5

I would recommend him, he is a good professional.

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5/5

Great service. An upbeat person. Definitely serious and will hold you accountable. But that's what you'd want in a doctor too! Always willing to listen for questions and answers clearly

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5/5

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