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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>School of Business at Minnesota State University Moorhead is pleased to host and co-organize the <b>2nd Symposium on Healthcare Advancements in Research & Practice (SHARP 2.0) on April 28-29, 2011 (Moorhead, Minnesota)</b> in collaboration with Oklahoma State University and Mayo Clinic. This symposium intends to bring together experts from industry and academics and serves to provide a forum to exchange ideas, problems and latest research findings.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Submission due for brief abstracts or posters: Feb 28th (Monday), 2011 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Notification to Authors: March 7th (Monday), 2011<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Last date for registration: March 21th (Friday), 2011<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Submissions could be based on a completed study, work-in-Progress or study presented or published elsewhere. Selected papers from the symposium (presentation or posters) will be invited to develop a complete manuscript for publication in the special issue of Annals of IS on 'Healthcare Informatics and Delivery' . For more details, please visit <a href="http://www.mnstate.edu/schoolofbusiness/sharp">www.mnstate.edu/schoolofbusiness/sharp</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SHARP 2.0 Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ashish Gupta, Minnesota State University Moorhead, gupta@mnstate.edu <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ramesh Sharda, Oklahoma State University, ramesh.sharda@okstate.edu <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John Osborn, Mayo Clinic, osborn.john@mayo.edu <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Confirmed presentations include (partial list):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Improved Decision Making in the Presence of Pandemic Influenza<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Keynote-Richard Larson, PhD (with Anna Teytelman), Massachusetts Institute of Technology <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Simulating the health system through model composition<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paul Maglio, PhD, IBM Research- Almaden <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Readiness of Health Care Reform: Sanford Health Perspective<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lisa Carlson, CFO, Sanford Health <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Keynote-Veronique Roger, MD, Director of the Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Mayo Clinic and Chair of the Department of Health Services Research (confirmation in progress) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Keynote-Thoralf Sundt, MD, Incoming chief of cardiac surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (confirmation in progress)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lean Journey at Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP) – Mayo Clinic<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fazi Amirahmadi, PhD, Mayo Clinic<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SE/OR within the Mayo Clinic, The expanding role of Operations Research in<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Helping Clinics and Hospitals Solve Complex Resource Problems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Todd R. Huschka, Health Care Policy and Research, Mayo Clinic <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Electronic Healthcare Records (HER) Potential, Complexity and Challenges<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Joseph Barjis, PhD, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Modeling Sepsis Management & Medical Handoffs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yue Dong, MD, Multidisciplinary Center for Simulation and Metric Lab, Mayo Clinic <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Health on a Cloud: Modeling Digital Flows in an E-health Eco-system<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ravi S. Sharma, Lena Stephanie, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Information Technology and its Impact on the Quality and Cost of Healthcare: A Study of U.S. Hospitals<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Indranil R. Bardhan, Mark F. Thouin, University of Texas at Dallas, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Human-Driven, Knowledge-Intensive Health Care Processes: Redefining Business Process Management <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Olivera Marjanovic, University of Sydney, Australia <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Integrating Flexible Clinical Pathways into Clinical Decision Support Systems using Context and Rules<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Akhil Kumar and Wen Yao, Pennsylvania State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Absorptive Capacity as a Precondition for Healthcare Process Improvement<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anton Manfreda, Peter Trkman, Mojca Indihar Štemberger, Andrej Kovačič<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University of Ljubljana, Slovenia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Simulation As A Method for Process Design And Transformation In a Hospital<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Diederik Rothengatter, Jos van Hillegersberg, Christiaan Katsma<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University of Twente, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Smart Medication Management System and Multiple Interventions for Improving Medication Adherence<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Upkar Varshney, Georgia State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Living with Multiple Sclerosis: Lifestyle Decisions Based on Patient Historical Data<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ronald Freeze, Emporia State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>T.S. Raghu & Ajay Vinze, Arizona State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Integrating IT and Process Redesign to Improve Healthcare Delivery<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Diane M. Strong, Sharon A. Johnson, Bengisu Tulu, Isa Bar-On<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Healthcare Delivery - the Balance of Art and Science: An Industrial and Systems Engineering Perspective<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Shengyong Wang, University of Akron, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Investigating the Role of Information Technology in Healthcare Alliance Networks: A Focus on Hospital Performance<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Evelyn Thrasher, Western Kentucky University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Patient Health Record systems: Trust and Privacy Perspective<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Han Li, Ashish Gupta, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jie Zhang, Midwestern State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Improving ICU Roundings<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ashish Gupta, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ramesh Sharda, Oklahoma State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yue Dong, Brian Pickering, Ognjen Gajic, Mayo Clinic, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rohit Sharda University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ashish Gupta, PhD<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Associate Professor <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>School of Business<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Minnesota State University Moorhead<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moorhead MN 56563<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Phone: (218) 477-4651<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>