Emily M. Armstrong is a Health Information Technology Project Manager at NORC. Armstrong currently leads federal projects related to testing health IT applications in federal health care delivery settings, health care quality and safety, and projects related to secondary uses of data from electronic health records (EHRs).
Armstrong is a licensed nurse and medical informatician with 15 years of experience in clinical nursing, quality improvement, and patient safety initaitives. She joined NORC in 2011 after serving as a Risk Data Manager at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. In recent roles in provider organizations, Armstrong has led several software and database implementation efforts aimed at facilitating risk management and supporting patient safety improvement strategies. She also supported work to plan and design Patient Safety Organizations sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.