WHITE 2011 Awards

Best paper award

• Jason Chan and Anindya Ghose: Internet’s Dirty Secret: Assessing the Impact of Technology Shocks on the Outbreaks of Sexually Transmitted Diseases 
• Amalia R. Miller and Catherine E. Tucker: Can Health Care Information Technology Save Babies?
• (First runner-up) Julia Adler-Milstein, Claudia Salzberg, Calvin Franz, E. John Orav, Joseph P. Newhouse, David W. Bates: Will Electronic Health Records Bend the Cost Curve? Evidence from Community Practices 

Young researcher award

• Leila Agha: The Effects of Health Information Technology on the Costs and Quality of Medical Care

Best student-authored paper award

• Haijing Hao, Rema Padman, Baohong Sun, and Rahul Telang: Quantifying the Influence of Opinion Leaders on Information Technology Adoption in Healthcare: A Hierarchical Bayesian Learning Model