Kevin Halbritter, MD

Vice President of Population Health
Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Department:

Medicine

Classification:

Faculty

• MD, WVU School of Medicine

• 1990          Medical Grand Rounds from West Virginia University Health Sciences Center:  Smoke Inhalation. Battigelli, Mario, M.D., MPH, Halbritter, Kevin A., M.D., and Parker, John E., M.D. West Virginia Medical Journal, 1990.

• 1993          Elnicki M, Shockcor W, Morris D, Halbritter K.  Creating an Objective Structured Clinical Examination for the Internal Medicine Clerkship Pitfalls and Benefits.  Am J Med Sci.  306(2); 1993, 94-7.

• 1993          Elnicki DM, Halbritter KA, Shockcor WT, Shumway JM, Morris DK. Students' Performances of Invasive Procedures During a Medicine Clerkship.  Acad Med.  68 (7), 1993, 582-3.

• 1994          Pfeifer MP, Sidorov JE, Layson R; Evans AT; Settle MB; Wallach PM; Adelman HM; Bolero J; Crnkovich DJ; Halbritter KA; Smith AE. The discussion of end-of-life medical care by primary care patients and physicians:  A multi-centered study utilizing structured qualitative interviews.  J Gen Intern Med. February 1994, 9(2): 82-88.

• 1996          Elnicki DM, Shumway JM, Halbritter KA, Morris DK. Interpretive and Procedural Skills of the Internal Medicine Clerkship: Performance and Supervision. 89(6); 1996, 603‑8.

• 1998          Cameron AE, Bashshur RL, Halbritter K, Johnson EM, Cameron JW, Simulation methodology for estimating financial effects of telemedicine in West Virginia., Telemed J. 1998 Summer;4(2):125-44.

• 1999          Elnicki DM, Halbritter KA, Antonelli MA, Linger B, Educational and career outcomes of an internal medicine preceptorship for first-year medical students., J Gen Intern Med. February 1999, Jun 14(6): 341-6.

• 2009          Jagannathan V, Mullett CJ, Arbogast JG, Halbritter KA, Yellapragada D, Regulapati S, Bandaru P. Assessment of commercial NLP engines for medication information extraction from dictated clinical notes. Int J Med Inform. 2009 Apr; 78(4):284-91.

• 2015          Kurczewski L, Sweet M, McKnight R, Halbritter K. Reduction of time to first action as a result of electronic alerts for early sepsis recognition. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly. 2015 Apr-Jun; 38(2) 182-7.

• 2015          Kurczewski L, Sweet M, McKnight R, Halbritter K. Reduction in time to first action as a result of electronic alerts for early sepsis recognition. Crit Care Nurse Q. 2015 Apr-Jun; 38(2):182-7.

• 2017          Ducatman AM, Tacker DH, Ducatman BS, Long D, Perrotta PL, Lawther H, Pennington K, Lander O, Warden M, Failinger C, Halbritter K, Pellegrino R, Treese M, Stead JA, Glass E, Cianciaruso L, Nau KC. Quality Improvement Intervention for Reduction of Redundant Testing. Acad Pathol. 2017 May 28;4

• 2017          Kara Zivin; Jessica White; Sandra Chao; Anna Christensen; Luke Horner; Dana Petersen; Morgan Hobbs; Grace Capreol,; Kevin Halbritter; Christopher Jones. Implementing Electronic Health Record Default Settings to Reduce Opioid Overprescribing: A Pilot Study. Pain Medicine (Accepted for publication, Oct. 2017

Phi Beta Kappa Honorary, WVU                                                            1981

Phi Lamda Upsilon National Chemistry Honorary, WVU                       1980

Phi Kappa Phi Honorary. WVU                                                              1981

Leadership Award, WVU Hospitals                                                       1994

Alpha Omega Alpha, WVU                                                                    1995

Innovation Award, WVU Hospitals                                                        1997

Quality Award, WVU Hospitals                                                             1998

Achievement in Performance Improvement Award, WVU Hospitals    1999

Masters of Change Award, WVU Hospitals                                          2001

Performance Improvement Award, WVU Hospitals                              2001

Performance Improvement Team Award, WVU Hospitals                    2013

Performance Improvement Team Award, WVU Hospitals                    2016

Professional Committees

Member, Board of Directors  Physicians Accountable Care Solutions  2015-2018

Member, Board of Directors  Mountainview Regional Rehabilitation Hospital  1997-2007

Member, Board of Directors  West Virginia Health Information Network  2012-2017

Dr. Kevin Halbritter, M.D. graduated from the West Virginia University School of Medicine and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Department of Medicine at WVU in 1988, served as Chief Resident in 1988-89, and then stayed on as faculty. He served as the Vice President of Medical Affairs at WVU Hospital from 1998 to 2009.  He was appointed to WVU Healthcare’s Executive Leadership Team for the implementation of their new electronic health record (EHR) from 2007-2009. In 2009 he was appointed to serve as the Chief Medical Information Officer for WVU Medicine. In 2017 he was appointed to the role of Vice President of Population Health at WVU Medicine. He maintains an interest in Healthcare Informatics.

Medical Specialties

• Internal Medicine

Board Certifications

• Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine

Special Training

• Residency, Internal Medicine
  West Virginia University
• Other Speciality Training, Internship
  West Virginia University