Healthcare

Recognizing the role and importance of Healthcare in today’s economy and the value information technology can bring to it, CABIT researchers have made Healthcare a key focus of our research and collaborative endeavors. At CABIT we are actively pursuing critical issues in three areas that can immediately benefit from our expertise: Public Health – as relates emergency preparedness and response, Knowledge Management focused on demand surge management by focusing on Health-grids and information supply chain efficiencies, and Security and Privacy drivers of policy to support the Governor’s initiative for the Arizona Health-E Connection. CABIT associates have partnered with the Maricopa County Department of Public Health and the Arizona Department of Health Services. CABIT Associates have also worked to assist Community Health Centers integrate their networks and bring efficiencies to the process. In collaboration with our partners from IBM and CHW we expect to push the frontiers for healthcare delivery and management. Our efforts with GITA (AZ Government IT Agency) and the State CIO, have allowed a proactive participating in the AZ Health-E Connection undertaking initially from a project management perspective, and now more from a policy and technology orientation related to Security and Privacy. CABIT associates have also developed a case series that is used in Business School and Public Health settings for training and education of future managers for Healthcare and Technology.

Key Personnel

Hina Arora
Orneita Burton
Minu Ipe
Raghu Santanam
Benjamin Shao
Ajay Vinze

Funded Projects

Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC)

Publications

H. Arora, T.S. Raghu, A. Vinze and P.Brittenham, 2006. "Using the Autonomic Computing Paradigm for Disease Outbreak Monitoring and Response," Third IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2006), Dublin, Ireland. http://www.autonomic-conference.org/

H. Arora, T.S. Raghu. A. Vinze and P. Brittenham, 2006. "Optimizing Surge Capacity during Disease Outbreaks: An Autonomic Resource Allocation Approach", (Technical Report).

H. Arora, T.S. Raghu, A. Vinze and P. Brittenham, 2005. "Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance through Autonomic Health Grids", Integrating the Digital Healthcare Enterprise, Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Omaha, Nebraska. http://amcis2005.isqa.unomaha.edu/

Burton, O., Ipe, M., and Vinze, A., 2006."Organizational adaptations in national security: the impact of bioterrorism on surveillance processes and resources." Forthcoming in Handbooks in Information Systems: National Security, Elsevier.

Applegate, L., Vinze, A., and Ipe, M., 2005. "County Department of Public Health: Organizing for Emergency Preparedness and Response," Harvard Business School Case, Case # N9-806-089.

Applegate, L., Raghu, T. S., Vinze, A., and Ipe, M., 2006. " Emergency Preparedness and Response at Arizona Department of Public Health: Implementing a Disease Surveillance System," Harvard Business School Case.