Appari [Page 1 of 7] Ajit Appari Assistant Professor, Division of Management, Policy, and Community Health Faculty Affiliate, Fleming Center for Healthcare Management University of Texas School of Public Health 1200 Pressler Street RAS W-310, Houston, TX 77030 Email : ajit.appari@uth.tmc.edu ; Phone: (713) 500 9428 ; Skype: aappari Last Updated: June 2013 EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy (Major: Business Administration/Management Information Systems), 2008, Syracuse University Master of Technology (Major: Quality, Reliability and Operations Research), 1996, Indian Statistical Institute, India Bachelor of Technology (Major: Production Engineering and Management), 1993, National Institute of Technology, University of Calicut, India CONTINUING EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS The Dartmouth Institute Professional Development Seminar, Fall 2012 Emerging Scholars Consortium/ Professional Development Workshop, Health Care Management Division, Academy of Management, Boston August 3 7, 2012 SYNERGY Certificate Program in Translational Research Methods, Dartmouth College, June 11 15, 2012 Advanced Methods in Health Services Research, Dartmouth College, Spring 2011 EMPLOYMENT 2013 present Assistant Professor, University of Texas School of Public Health 2013 present Faculty Affiliated, George McMillian Fleming Center for Healthcare Management, University of Texas School of Public Health 2008 2013 Research Fellow, Center for Digital Strategies at Tuck, Dartmouth College 2008 2013 Postdoc Affiliate, The Institute for Security, Technology, and Society, Dartmouth College 2002 2008 Teaching Assistant/ Instructor, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University 1999 2002 Principal Software Engineer, Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab., India 1998 1999 Software Quality Engineer, Accord Software & Systems Pvt. Ltd, India 1997 1998 Quality Consultant, SQC&OR Division, Indian Statistical Institute, India 1996 1997 Quality Engineer, Paharpur Cooling Towers Ltd., India RESEARCH INTERESTS Economics of Health Information Technology and Health Care Delivery; Organizational Impact of Information Technology in Improving Health Care Delivery process and outcome quality, and efficiency of care delivery; Health Information Privacy and Security; Organizational Behavior; and Healthcare Market Structure
Appari [Page 2 of 7] PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles (healthcare) Appari A, Johnson ME, and Anthony DL. (2013) Meaningful Use of EHR Systems and Process Quality of Care: A Panel Data Analysis of US Acute-Care Hospitals, Health Services Research, 48(2-part1): 354-75. Appari A, Carian EK, Johnson ME, and Anthony DL. (2012) Medication Administration Quality and Health Information Technology: A National Study of US Hospitals, JAMIA, 19(3): 360-367 [recognized as Editor s Choice of article]. Appari A, and Johnson ME. (2010) Information Security Risk and Privacy in Healthcare: Current State of Research, International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, 6(4): 279-314. Journal Articles (dissertation based papers) Benaroch M, and Appari A. (2011) Pricing E-Service Quality Risk in Financial Services, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 10(5): 534-544. Benaroch M, and Appari A. (2010) "Financial Pricing of Software Development Risk Factors," IEEE Software, 27(5): 65-73. Appari A, and Benaroch M. (2010) Monetary Pricing of Software Development Risks: A Method and Empirical Illustration (with Benaroch M.), Journal of Systems and Software, 83(11): 2098-2107. Work In Progress (healthcare) Appari A. (2013) Organizational Structure, Market Factors, and Outcomes Quality in Home Health Care: A Longitudinal Study, Target: Medical Care Appari A, Johnson ME, Anthony DL. (2013) Information Technology and Patient Safety: Evidence from National Data, Submitted: American Journal of Managed Care Appari A, Johnson ME, Anthony DL. (2013) Health Information Technology and Hospital Performance on Imaging-use Measures, Submitted Health Services Research [received Best Abstract award from the Health Information Technology Interest Group Meeting, June 22, 2013, Baltimore, MD] Appari A. (2013) Organizational Structure, Market Factors, and Outcomes Quality in Home Health Care: A Longitudinal Study, AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Baltimore, MD Anthony DL, Appari, A, and Johnson ME. (2012) Institutionalizing Compliance: Strategies, Environments, and Competing Logics in the US Healthcare, Submitted: Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Appari A. EHR Use and Quality of Home Health Care: Insights from a Panel Study of Health System Affiliated Home Health Agencies, Target: Health Services Research Appari A. Relationship of Hospital Outpatient Imaging (In)Efficiency with Use of Digital PACS and Image Sharing Capability: A Study of Mammography Follow-up Rates at US Hospitals, Target: Medical Care Appari A. The Quality Benefits of EHR Systems in Ambulatory Care: A Market Level Analysis of Health System Affiliated Physician Practices, Target: Health Services Research Conference Proceedings (peer-reviewed) / Presentations Appari A. (2013) Organizational Structure, Market Factors, and Outcomes Quality in Home Health Care: A Longitudinal Study, AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting June 23-25; and Long Term Care Interest Group Meeting June 22, Baltimore, MD.
Appari [Page 3 of 7] Appari A, Johnson ME, Anthony DL. (2013) Health Information Technology and Hospital Performance on Imaging-use Measures, AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting June 23-25; and Health Information Technology Interest Group Meeting June 22, Baltimore, MD [received Best Abstract award from the HIT Interest Group]. Appari A, Johnson ME, Anthony DL. (2012) Health Information Technology and Hospital Patient Safety Performance - A Cross-sectional Study of US Acute Care Hospitals, Third Workshop on Health IT and Economics, Washington DC. Appari A, Johnson ME, Anthony DL. (2012) Meaningful Use of EHR Systems and Patient Safety: A National Study of US Hospitals, Academy of Management Healthcare Management Professional Development Workshop, Boston. Appari A, Johnson ME, Anthony DL. (2012) Meaningful Use of EHR Systems and Patient Safety: A National Study of US Hospitals, (Poster Presentation) AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Orlando, FL. Appari A, Johnson ME, Anthony DL. (2012) EHR Meaningful Use Capability and Process Quality: Evidence from a Panel Analysis of US Acute-Care Hospitals, (Poster Presentation) AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Orlando, FL. Appari A, Anthony DL, and Johnson ME. (2011) Medication Administration Quality and Health Information Technology: A National Study of US Hospitals, Second Workshop on Health IT and Economics, Washington DC. Appari A, Carian EK, Anthony DL, and Johnson ME. (2011) Medication Quality and Health Information Technology, AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Seattle, WA. Appari A, Johnson ME, Anthony DL. (2011) Meaningful Use of EHR Systems and Hospital Quality, 13th Annual Healthcare Organizational Research Association Conference, Seattle, WA. Appari A, Anthony DL, and Johnson ME. (2010) Impact of Health Information Technology Portfolio on Hospital Quality: A National Study of U.S. Acute Care Facilities", (Poster presentation) AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Boston, MA. Anthony DL, Appari A, and Johnson ME. (2010) Institutional and Market Forces in Organizational Change: HIPAA Compliance in Acute Care Hospitals, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. Anthony DL, Appari A, and Johnson ME. (2010) Institutional and Market Forces in Organizational Change: HIPAA Compliance in Acute Care Hospitals, A Poster Presentation at the Production and Operations Management Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Appari A, Johnson ME, and Anthony DL. (2009) The Neo-Institutional View of HIPAA Compliance in Home Health Care, Workshop on Information Security and Privacy, Phoenix, AZ. Appari A, Johnson ME, and Anthony DL. (2009) HIPAA Compliance in Home Health: A Neo-Institutional Theoretic Perspective, Proceedings of Security and Privacy in Medical and Home-Care Systems An ACM Workshop, Chicago, IL. Appari A, Anthony DL, and Johnson ME. (2009) HIPAA Compliance: An institutional Theory Perspective, Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, CA. Appari A, Anthony, D., and Johnson ME. (2009) HIPAA Compliance: An Examination of Institutional and Market Forces, Workshop on Economics of Information Security, London, UK. Appari A, Anthony DL, and Johnson ME. (2008) Which Hospitals are Complying with HIPAA: An Empirical Investigation of US Hospitals, Workshop on Information Security and Privacy, Paris, France. Appari A, Anthony DL, and Johnson ME. (2008) Information Security Investments in the Healthcare Sector: An Exploratory Study, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington DC. Benaroch M, and Appari A. (2008) Pricing IT Investment Risks Involving Customer Adoption Benchmarks, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington DC. Appari A, and Benaroch M. (2006) A Formal Model and Methodology for Measuring IT Investment Risks, Academy of Management Annual meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Appari A, and Benaroch M. (2006) Pricing the Risks of IT Investments: A Multifactor Approach, Journal of Information Systems-New Scholars Research Workshop, Scottsdale, AZ. Appari [Page 4 of 7] Appari A, and Benaroch M. (2005) A Viable Approach for Measuring the Risk-Return Relationship of IT Investments, Proc. of 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Omaha, NE. Other Articles Appari A. (2006) "Bridging the Gap between IT Managers and Business Managers," review of the book Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment, by Steve Tockey, in IEEE Software 23(5): 100-101. RESEARCH SUPPORT Present/ Past Funding Postdoc Investigator. Trustworthy Information Systems for Healthcare (PI: David Kotz, Co-PI: Eric Johnson, Denise Anthony, Sean Smith); National Science Foundation (2010-2013) Postdoc Investigator. Exploring the Relationship between Health Information Technology and Hospital Quality (PI: Denise Anthony); Rockefeller Faculty Research Grant - Dartmouth College (2010-2011) Postdoc Investigator. Information Risk in Data-Oriented Enterprises (PI: Eric Johnson, Sean Smith); Department of Homeland Security-National Cyber Security Division (2008-2010) Postdoc Investigator. Information Technology in Healthcare (PI: Denise Anthony); National Institute of Science and Technology (2008) Principal Investigator. Information Technology Investment Risks; Robert H. Brethen Operations Management Institute-Syracuse University (2005 and 2006) Proposals Investigator. Utilization Trends of Preventive Care Services and EHR Use in Texas Healthcare Markets (PI: Revere); Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-R03 grant (Submitted June 2013). Principal Investigator. Diffusion of Health IT and its Relationship with Quality of Care at Home Health Agencies; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-R03 grant (To be submitted in 2013). Principal Investigator. Creation of Information Market for IT Security Assets, Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection - Research Fellowship (Submitted April 2010; Not Awarded) Principal Investigator. Do Health IT Adopters Provide Better Quality? A Contextual Study of U.S. Acute-Care Hospitals, The Commonwealth Fund (Submitted March 2010; Not Awarded) Principal Investigator. Healthcare Records Management and HIPAA compliance, Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection - Research Fellowship (Submitted February 2009; Not Awarded) INVITED TALKS Hospitals, University of Oklahoma, College of Public Health, Oklahoma City, November 2012. Hospitals, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, October 2012. Hospitals, New Jersey Institute of Technology, February 2012.
Appari [Page 5 of 7] Hospitals, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, January 2012. Medication Administration Quality and Health Information Technology Use, School of Informatics, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, March 2011. Meaningful Use of EHR and Hospital Quality, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, December 2010. Information Security in Healthcare: Current State of Research and Future Directions, University of Akron, June 2008. A Multifactor Risk-Cost Premium Model for Pricing Software Development Risks, George Mason University, February 2008. A Multifactor Risk-Cost Premium Model for Pricing Software Development Risks, University of Massachusetts at Boston, February 2008. A Multifactor Risk-Cost Premium Model for Pricing Software Development Risks, University of Alabama at Birmingham, April 2007. TEACHING (ACADEMIC) University of Texas School of Public Health Graduate Course (Planned): Information Technology in Healthcare Management (Fall 2013); Operations, Technology, and Decision Management in Health (Spring 2014: PhD level) Dartmouth College Undergraduate/Graduate Course (Guest Lectures): Security and Privacy (Theme Economics of Information Security) Syracuse University, Martin J. Whitman School of Management Undergraduate Courses (As Instructor): Introduction to Information Systems for Managers (Fall 2006; Fall 2007: two sections); Principles of Database Management (Spring 2005 & 2006) Undergraduate Courses (As Teaching Assistant): Introduction to Information Systems for Managers (Fall 2002 & 2004, Spring 2003); Principles of Database Management (Spring 2004) Graduate Courses (As Teaching Assistant): Customer Relationship Management with SAP (Spring 2007), Introduction to IT and e-commerce (Spring 2007); Decision Support Technologies (Fall 2002, 2003, 2004 & 2005*); Strategic Management of Information Technology (Fall 2002, 2003 & 2004*); Database Management Systems (Fall 2004, Summer 2005*, Spring 2005) [*: online executive MBA] Undergraduate Courses (Guest Lectures): Introductory Statistics for Management (Theme Estimation of Confidence Interval); Introduction to E-Commerce for Managers (Theme Software Development Lifecycle) TEACHING (NON ACADEMIC) Trained over 50 middle level managers, engineers and shop floor workers on application of Industrial Statistics in manufacturing industries in India Developed and delivered training to over 100 new employees of Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab on organization s Software Development Practices, Quality Management, Metrics Management, and Project Management
Appari [Page 6 of 7] STUDENTS Doctoral Students at UT School of Public Health Sally Barlow, Dissertation Committee Member LEADERSHIP AND SERVICES Institutional Services (UTHealth only) Member, Information Technology Council, UT School of Public Health, 2013 present. Editorial Services Guest Editor for Electronic Commerce Research and Applications [theme: ehealth and Healthcare Service Transformation; target publication date: Summer-2014] Referee for International Journals and Conferences Health Services Research, American Journal of Managed Care, MIS Quarterly, Electronics Commerce Research and Applications, Information and Management, IEEE Transactions on Information and Systems Security, Journal of Information Sciences, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computers & Industrial Engineering, Referee for International Conferences AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Workshop on Health IT and Economics, International Conference on Information Systems, America s Conference on Information Systems, Workshop on Economics of Information Security, Workshop on Information Security and Privacy, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Program Committee / Other Services for Conferences Review Panel Member: Health Information Technology theme for The AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 23-25 2013, Baltimore, MD Discussant: The AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 2013, Baltimore, MD Discussant: The Third Workshop on Health IT and Economics, October 5-6, 2012, Washington DC Discussant: The 13 th Healthcare Organizational Research Association Conference, June 9-10, 2011, Seattle, WA Program Committee (Track: Minimalism & Agility in Information Systems Development). The 5 th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Sept 12-14, 2010, Tel Aviv, Israel Conference Administration: The 7 th Workshop on Economics of Information Security, June 25-28, 2008, Hanover, NH Session Chair: Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 11-16, 2006, Atlanta, GA Industry Experience and Consulting During the period 1996-2002 contributed significantly to several organizations in the leadership capacity, and as a consultant in implementation and management of quality systems in compliance with international standards like ISO 9001, and Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model; metrics management; and
Appari [Page 7 of 7] process/product quality improvement. In addition, at Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab, a subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc. (a Fortune 100 company), developed a tool for software metrics management, and performed user testing for web based applications. Performed leadership role in software process improvement and digitization of business processes toward the goal of achieving CMM level-5 rating at Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab, a subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc. (a Fortune 100 company) Consulted Honeywell Power Systems, Albuquerque for implementing software quality management system complying with requirements of SEI CMM Level 2 Consulted on implementation of statistical quality control and quality improvement projects to several leading manufacturing organizations in India including auto-component, heavy equipment, lube oil, and poly-fiber manufacturers Community Services Offered voluntary services to Honeywell Community Outreach programs on development of vocational training curriculum for underprivileged children of Bangalore (India) and conducted medical camps for villages nearby Bangalore HONORS AND AWARDS 2013 Best Abstract award, Health Information Technology Interest Group Meeting, June 22, 2013, Baltimore, MD 2012 Article published in JAMIA, 19(3) issue received Editor s Choice designation 2005 06 Teaching Fellow, Syracuse University 2005 Inducted to PHI BETA DELTA, Honor Society for International Scholars 2002 05 Teaching Assistantship, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University 2000 Individual Contribution Award for defining R&D Process, Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab., India Individual Excellence Award for Significant Contribution toward Process Improvement and Process Automation, Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab., India 1994 96 Graduate Assistantship, Indian Statistical Institute, India 1989 93 Parent Teacher Association Scholarship, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India 1987 National Merit Certificate (High School Examination), Government of India PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 2009 present Member, AcademyHealth [and Special Interest Groups on Health Information Technology, Health Economics, Long Term Care] 2012 present Member, Academy of Management [and Division of Health Care Management] 2005 06 Member, Academy of Management [and Division of Organizational Communications and Information Systems] 2003 11 Member, Association of Information Systems