The Third Annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics
October 5-6, 2012, Washington, DC
WHITE is a health information technology (IT) summit that gathers prominent scholars in a multidisciplinary setting. Despite IT’s potential to transform healthcare delivery, significant challenges remain regarding design, implementation, utilization, and evaluation. These issues are being actively explored in fields as diverse as medical informatics, computer science, public health, business, and economics. Each field brings a unique perspective and insights; collectively, these disciplinary approaches are complementary.
The mission of WHITE is to build the foundation for a multidisciplinary health IT and economics research community, and to stimulate new ideas with both policy and business implications. Synergies generated from integration across individual disciplines will deepen our understanding of health IT design and its resultant impact. Finally, this forum provides a great venue to facilitate interaction and collaboration between academia, government, and industry.
2012 Program | Photos from WHITE 2012
White 2012 Awards
Best Paper Award
The Trillion Dollar Conundrum: Complementarities and Health Information Technology
by David Dranove, Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein
Young Researcher Award
Collaborative Information Sharing and Patients’ Health Education
by Lu (Lucy) Yan, Indiana University
Best Student-authored Paper Award
Adoption of Health Information Exchange: Understanding the Negative Externality
by Sunita Desai, University of Pennsylvania
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Program Chair | Program Co-Chair Guodong (Gordon) Gao Robert H. Smith School of Business University of Maryland |
Program Co-Chair Jeffrey S. McCullough School of Public Health University of Minnesota |
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