题目：An Overview of the Research Stream in Healthcare and Information Technology and Analytics

主讲人：Ritu Agarwal 教授（马里兰大学College Park分校）

时间：2017年7月10日（周一）下午13:30

地点：主楼317

主讲人介绍：

    Ritu Agarwal is Senior Associate Dean for Research, Professor and the Robert H. Smith Dean’s Chair of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the founder and Director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems at the Smith School. Dr. Agarwal has published over 100 papers on health informatics and information technology management topics in journals such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, Health Affairs, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and IEEE Transactions, and has made presentations at a variety of national and international conferences. Her current research is focused on the use of IT in healthcare settings, health analytics, technology-enabled strategic transformations in various industrial sectors, and consumer behavior in technology-mediated settings. Professor Agarwal was the Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems Research for a 6 year term from 2011 to 2016. Previously she served three year terms as Senior Editor at MIS Quarterly and Associate Editor for Management Science. She was a member of the INFORMS board as Vice President for Subdivisions from 2004 to 2006, and served as a Vice President in the Association for Information Systems from 2002 to 2005. She served as a Standing Member of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s expert review panel on Healthcare Effectiveness and Outcomes Research for the period 2010-2012.  Dr. Agarwal was the NSF ADVANCE Professor for 2012-2013 for the Smith School.  In 2011 she became a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems, and also received the University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award.  In 2013 she received the title of Distinguished Fellow from the Information Systems Society of INFORMS. She has held leadership positions in a number of major professional conferences during her career, including Program Chair for the International Conference on Information Systems.  She is the Conference Co-Chair for the International Conference on Information Systems in 2017.  She is a member of ACM, AIS, INFORMS, and the Academy of Management.

内容简介：

    It is widely recognized that today’s healthcare system faces many challenges related to poor quality of care, medical errors and high costs. Many of these problems can be mitigated through the availability of relevant and timely information at the point of care, and through the application of advanced decision and information technologies. This talk will present the main research directions in Healthcare and Information Technology and Analytics, including: 1) Healthcare Analytics: Data-driven Health Services Insights, Modeling, Operations; 2) New Models of Care: Health Information Exchange, ACO, Medical Home and Care Coordination; 3) Impact and Comparative Effectiveness of Digital Health; 4) Time, Money, and Quality of Consumer Health IT; 5) Healthcare Consumers, Quality, Transparency and Social Media.

（承办：管理工程系，科研与学术交流中心）