Structure and People

Organization Structure

CHIDS’ organizational structure is a functional representation of activities. Team members, affiliated faculty and student fellows perform several multi disciplinary activities related to the research categories. Administration and member relations functions are distributed across the organization and are the responsibility of specific team members. The research divisions represent a selection of the research currently underway and planned for the future.

Research Divisions

Human Factors

• Business process changes and work process impacts resulting from HIT
• Provider and consumer technology interface
• Disease management, predictive modeling, continuum of care

HIT Adoption and Dissemination

• Behavioral issues associated with technology implementation/ adoption
• Policy, regulatory, financial, and technology barriers to adoption
• Security and privacy concerns around digital health information

Health Records and HIT Interoperability

• Integration of information and decision systems
• HIT standards and certification
• Data representation and storage standards

Quality and Transparency

• Quality outcomes and measures
• Competitive market and quality tools
• Performance measures and consumer quality and transparency

IT Value and Economics

• Outcomes measures: ROI, health outcomes, efficiency, quality of care
• Supply chain analysis of health delivery systems
• Impact of health finance innovations, such as health savings accounts (HSA), high deductible health plans (HDHP), etc.

Healthcare Operations and Data Management

• Optimization of hospital resource utilization
• Lean principles in healthcare
• Ontologies for health data
• Biosurveillance