Research

CHIDS researchers have a proven publication track-record with several papers accepted for journal publication and presentations at industry conferences.  The following are examples of some of the research produced related to the health care delivery process.

Completed Research

» Angst, C. M., & Agarwal, R. (2006). Getting Personal About Electronic Health Records: Modeling the beliefs of personal health record users and non-users, Working Paper.
» Angst, C. M., Agarwal, R., & Downing, J. (2006). An Empirical Examination of the Importance of Defining the PHR for Research and for Practice, Working Paper.
» Angst, C. M. & Agarwal, R. (2006). Overcoming Personal Barriers to Adoption When Technology Enables Information to be Available to Others, Working Paper.
» Ma, M., & Agarwal, R. (2006). "With a Little Help from Strangers: Social Support and Smoking Cessation in Online Communities," (Working Paper). College Park, MD: Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS).
» Kuruzovich, J., Angst, C. M., Faraj, S., & Agarwal, R. (2006). Wireless Communication’s Role in Patient Response Time: A Study of Vocera Integration with a Nurse Call System. (White Paper). College Park, MD: Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS)
» Angst, C. M., & Agarwal, R. (2005). Cognitive Schemas and Electronic Personal Health Records: Making “Sense” of New IT in Health Care, Working Paper.
» Yale, K. P., Fannin, M. & Angst, C. M. (2005). The Role of Health Information Technology in Medicare and Medicaid Disease Management. Presented at SINI – Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics, Baltimore, MD, July 22, 2005
» Agarwal, R. & Angst, C. M. (2006). Technology-Enabled Transformations in Health Care: Early Findings on Personal Health Records and Individual Use, In D. Galletta & P. Zhang (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Applications (Vol. 5). Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
» Angst, C.M. & Angst, W.P. (2005). Putting the Power at Consumers' Fingertips: Distribution of Personal Health Records for Maximum Utility. Presented at TEPR, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 14-18, 2005.
» Yun, S., Faraj, S., Xiao, Y., & Sims, H. P. (2005). "Leadership and Coordination in a Trauma Resuscitation Team," Advances in the Interdisciplinary Study of Work Teams, Vol. 8. JAI Press.
» Angst, C. M., & Agarwal, R. (2005). Gestational Use and Its Effect on Early System Use and Usage Growth Trajectories: A Longitudinal Analysis Investigating Change in Technology Use Over Time. Working Paper.
» Angst, C. M., & Agarwal, R. (2006). Patients Take Control: Empowering People with Personal Health Records, Working Paper.
» Lacroix, Z., Raschid, L., and Vidal, M. (2004). Efficient Techniques to Explore Paths in Life Science Data Sources. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, March 2004.
» Fienberg, S. E. and Shmueli, G. (2004). Statistical Issues and Challenges Associated with Rapid Detection of Bioterrorist Attacks. Statistics in Medicine, December.
»  Angst, C. M. (2004). Patients' Perceived Value of Using a Personal Health Record. Presented at TEPR, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May 17-21, 2004.
» Angst, C. M., & Agarwal, R. (2004). Central and Peripheral Routes to Faithful Technology Usage. Presented at DIGIT 2004, December 12, 2004.
» Agarwal, R, Angst, C. M., & Sambamurthy, V. (2004). It’s Not To Whom You Go, It’s Who You Know: Social Referents and Normative and Informational Influence in Technology Acceptance Attitudes and Behaviors. Presented at INFORMS, CIST Conference, Denver, CO, October 23-27, 2004.
» Angst, C. M. (2002). An Apple (or PC) a Day - Keeps the Doctor Away: Usage of an electronic tool for personal health management: A ‘Task-Technology Fit’ theory application. Presented at CERAM Ph.D/Faculty Consortium, Nice, France, Oct. 28.

Research In Progress

» Investigation of IT and coordination in medical trauma centers.
» Investigating Second-Order Technology Determinism: A field study of clinicians’ use of mobile computing in a hospital setting.
» Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model to inform innovation exploitation in the presence of privacy concerns: An investigation of individuals’ receptiveness to electronic health records.
» Putting the power at consumers’ fingertips: Distribution of personal health records for maximum utility
» Using data mining techniques to predict bio-terrorism
» Chronic care improvement initiatives and the future of the Medicare program