CHIDS is an academic research center with collaboration from industry and government affiliates, and is designed to research, analyze, and recommend solutions to challenges surrounding the introduction and integration of information and decision technologies into the health care system. CHIDS offers the benefit of a world-class research staff and renowned scholars in technology implementation, adoption, assimilation, decision sciences and information technology. CHIDS serves as a focal point for thought leadership around the topic of health information and decision systems.

News

• CHIDS releases new research briefing: Privacy Risks, Emotion, and Consumers’ Willingness to Share Personal Health Information, by Catherine Anderson and Ritu Agarwal. This research brief discusses the key findings of our examination of consumers’ willingness to disclose personal health information (PHI) so that it may be digitized and potentially shared with others. We collected data from a nationally representative sample of over 1000 consumers.
• March 13th, 2009, CHIDS summarizes Major Healthcare Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, by Aparna Agarwal, MBA Candidate 2010.
• February 15th, 2009, Front page of Washington Post Sunday Business Section features commentary by CHIDS Director, Ritu Agarwal on the $19B Health IT component of the Stimulus Package. See story, Online Health Data in Remission, Nascent Industry Ready With Systems If Money and Standards Are Resolved , by Anita Huslin.
• CHIDS releases new research briefing: Quantifying the Economic Impact of Communication Inefficiencies in US Hospitals, by Ritu Agarwal, Daniel Sands and Jorge Diaz-Schneider. This study suggests that improving the quality of communications requires both technological solutions and a detailed clinical process understanding.
• "We are committed to a vision of healthcare where advanced information and decision technologies enable and speed up the marathon training and improve outcomes across the board": CHIDS Newsletter-Fall 2008, Vol. 2, Issue 2 released.
• Professor Agarwal presents a policy perspective on privacy at the "Leadership during Organizational Transformation" at Oakland University, October 9, 2008. [Download Presentation]

Research in Focus

• CHIDS researchers follow the adoption of a document management system Children’s National Medical Center. [Download Working Paper]
• What does health information privacy really mean? What type of health information are individuals willing to disclose for digitization purposes and to whom? Ph.D. candidate Catherine Anderson studies the complex nature of privacy concerns. [Download Working Paper]
• Does healthcare IT investment improve country health indicators? Professor Sunil Mithas and CHIDS Research Fellow Jiban Khuntia examine the link between investment and health outcomes across nations.
• Why do some hospitals choose to voluntarily disclose their quality performance online? Prof. Gordon Gao and his team explore the determinants of quality disclosure.