Contact Information

Larry Gamm, Ph.D.
Director
TAMU 1266
College Station, Texas 77845
tel (979) 458-2244
gamm@tamhsc.edu

Eva Lee, Ph.D.
Co-Director
Systems Engineering
Atlanta, GA 30332-0205
tel (404) 894-4962
evakylee@isye.gatech.edu

James C. Benneyan, Ph.D.
Co-Director
334 Snell Engineering Center
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
tel (617) 373-2975
benneyan@coe.neu.edu

Harriet Black Nembhard, Ph.D.
Co-Director
310 Leonhard Building
University Park, PA 16802
tel (814) 865-4210
hbnembhard@psu.edu

CHOT RESEARCH-BASED PUBLICATIONS

(CHOT members can access these articles directly from the members portion of the website)

Quality, Safety, And Improvement Analytic Projects

Benneyan, J. C., & Taseli, A. (2010). Exact and approximate probability distributions of evidence-based bundle composite compliance measures. Health Care Management Science, 13(3), 193-209.

EK Lee, K Cha, Automated data collection and integration for cancer treatment design and clinical quality evaluation investigations. 2010 AMIA Summit on Clinical Research Informatics, San Francisco, CA, Mar 2010.

EK Lee, CH Chen, F Pietz, B Benecke, Disease propagation analysis and mitigation strategies for effective mass dispensing. American Medical Informatics Association 2010 Symposium Proceedings, 427-431. 2010.

EK Lee, HR Lee, A Quarshie, SEACOIN -- An investigative tool for biomedical informatics researchers. American Medical Informatics Association 2011 Symposium Proceedings, 750-759. 2011

Spaulding, A. C., Gamm, L. D., & Griffith, J. M. (2010). Studer Unplugged: Identifying Underlying Managerial Concepts. Hospital Topics, 88(1), 1-9.

Vest, J. R., & Gamm, L. D. (2009). A critical review of the research literature on Six Sigma, Lean and StuderGroup's Hardwiring Excellence in the United States: the need to demonstrate and communicate the effectiveness of transformation strategies in healthcare. Implementation Science, 4.

Clinical Care, Medical Home, Readmission, And Outcome Projects

Bolin, J. N., Gamm, L., Vest, J. R., Edwardson, N., & Miller, T. R. (2011). Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Will Health Care Reform Provide New Options for Rural Communities and Providers? Family & Community Health, 34(2), 93.

Ohsfeldt, R. L., Gandhi, S. K., & Fox, K. M. (2009). Medicare-eligible patients diagnosed with atherosclerosis: patterns in statin therapy and lipid monitoring. Current medical research and opinion, 25(6), 1403-1411.

JJ Sturm, DA Hirsh, EK Lee, R Massey, B Weselman, HK Simon, Practice characteristics that influence nonurgent pediatric emergency department utilization. Academic Pediatrics. 10(1): 70-74. 2010.

Vest, J. R., Bolin, J. N., Miller, T. R., Gamm, L. D., Siegrist, T. E., & Martinez, L. E. (2010). Review: Medical Homes:"Where You Stand on Definitions Depends on Where You Sit". Medical Care Research and Review, 67(4), 393.

Vest, J. R., Gamm, L. D., Oxford, B. A., Gonzalez, M. I., & Slawson, K. M. (2010). Determinants of preventable readmissions in the United States: a systematic review. Implementation Science, 5(1), 1-27.

EMR, HIE, & HIT Projects

Bell, S., Benneyan, J., Best, A., Birnbaum, D., Borycki, E. M., Gallagher, T. H., . . . Mazor, K. M. (2011). Mandatory public reporting: build it and who will come? Studies in health technology and informatics, 164, 346.

Lee, E. K., Mejia, A. F., Senior, T., & Jose, J. (2010). Improving Patient Safety through Medical Alert Management: An Automated Decision Tool to Reduce Alert Fatigue. Paper presented at the American Medical Informatics Association Symposium, Washington D.C.

Vest, J. R. (2010). More than just a question of technology: Factors related to hospitals' adoption and implementation of health information exchange. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 79(12), 797-806.

Vest, J. R., & Gamm, L. D. (2010). Health information exchange: persistent challenges and new strategies. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 17(3), 288.

Vest, J. R., & Jasperson, J. (2010). What should we measure? Conceptualizing usage in health information exchange. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 17(3), 302.

Scheduling & Logistics Projects

Kash, B., Ohsfeldt, R., & Gamm, L. An attempt to forecast hospital market share using admission data. Journal of healthcare management/American College of Healthcare Executives, 54(1), 44.

EK Lee, CH Chen, F Pietz, B Benecke, Modeling and optimizing the public health infrastructure for emergency response. Interfaces -- 2008 Wagner Prize Special Issue. 39(5): 476-490, 2009.