A PhD student ZHAO Yao and her supervisor, Assistant Professor LEE Dongwon, from the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management (ISOM), co-authored a research paper that shines. The paper (also with Professor Hillol BALA, Associate Professor of Information Systems from Kelley School of Business, Indiana University) received the 2nd Runner-Up Best Completed Research Paper title at the 21st Workshop on e-Business (WeB).
As suggested by the title “Do Healthcare Professionals Improve Productivity from Healthcare Information Exchange? The Role of Rurality and Size of Hospital”, the research paper examines the impact of the electronic health information sharing between healthcare providers on physicians’ and nurses’ productivity. By utilizing data envelopment analysis (DEA) to construct physicians’ productivity and applying differences-in-differences (DID) approach, the team found that healthcare information exchange (HIE) adoption has a positive and significant effect on physicians’ and nurses’ productivity only for urban and large hospitals but not for rural and small hospitals, which further suggests the HIE adoption might lead to or expand the efficiency gap between urban (and large) hospitals and rural (and small) hospitals.
The Workshop on WeB is a premier annual one-day conference on e-Business and e-Commerce held in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) organized by the Association for Information Systems (AIS) in Copenhagen, Denmark.