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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Minnesota State University Moorhead will host and organize the <b>2nd Symposium on Healthcare Advancements in Research & Practice (SHARP 2.0)</b> on <b>April 28-29, 2011</b> (<b>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=MsoPlainText>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=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Submission due for brief abstracts or posters: March 25<sup>th</sup> (Monday), 2011 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Notification to Authors: April 1<sup>st</sup> (Friday), 2011<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Last date for registration: April 8<sup>th</sup> (Friday), 2011<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Submissions could be based on a completed study, work-in-Progress or study presented or published elsewhere. Selected papers from the symposium <b>(presentation or posters)</b> will be invited to develop a complete manuscript for publication in the <b>Special Issue of Annals of IS on 'Healthcare Informatics and Delivery'</b> . Proposals for panels are also invited.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>SHARP 2.0 Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Ashish Gupta, Minnesota State University Moorhead, <a href="mailto:gupta@mnstate.edu">gupta@mnstate.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Ramesh Sharda, Oklahoma State University, <a href="mailto:ramesh.sharda@okstate.edu">ramesh.sharda@okstate.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>John Osborn, Mayo Clinic, <a href="mailto:osborn.john@mayo.edu">osborn.john@mayo.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b>Confirmed presentations include (partial list):<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Improved Decision Making in the Presence of Pandemic Influenza<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Keynote-Richard Larson, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Simulating the health system through model composition<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Paul Maglio, PhD, IBM Research- Almaden <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Readiness of Health Care Reform: Sanford Health Perspective<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Lisa Carlson, CFO, Sanford Health <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Keynote-Thoralf Sundt, MD, Incoming chief of cardiac surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The effect of timing of different pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions on mitigating the effects of a pandemic.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Anna Teytelman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Lean Journey at Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP) – Mayo Clinic<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Fazi Amirahmadi, PhD, Mayo Clinic<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>SE/OR within the Mayo Clinic, The expanding role of Operations Research in<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Helping Clinics and Hospitals Solve Complex Resource Problems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Todd R. Huschka, Health Care Policy and Research, Mayo Clinic <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Electronic Healthcare Records (HER) Potential, Complexity and Challenges<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Joseph Barjis, PhD, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Modeling Sepsis Management & Medical Handoffs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Yue Dong, MD, Multidisciplinary Center for Simulation and Metric Lab, Mayo Clinic <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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=MsoPlainText>Indranil R. Bardhan, Mark F. Thouin, University of Texas at Dallas, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Integrating Flexible Clinical Pathways into Clinical Decision Support Systems using Context and Rules<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Akhil Kumar and Wen Yao, Pennsylvania State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Simulation As A Method for Process Design And Transformation In a Hospital<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Diederik Rothengatter, Jos van Hillegersberg, Christiaan Katsma<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>University of Twente, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Smart Medication Management System and Multiple Interventions for Improving Medication Adherence<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Upkar Varshney, Georgia State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Execution for High Performance Health Care<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Daniel B. McLaughlin , University of St. Thomas, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Living with Multiple Sclerosis: Lifestyle Decisions Based on Patient Historical Data<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Ronald Freeze, Emporia State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>T.S. Raghu & Ajay Vinze, Arizona State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Integrating IT and Process Redesign to Improve Healthcare Delivery<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Diane M. Strong, Sharon A. Johnson, Bengisu Tulu, Isa Bar-On<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Healthcare Delivery - the Balance of Art and Science: An Industrial and Systems Engineering Perspective<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Shengyong Wang, University of Akron, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Investigating the Role of Information Technology in Healthcare Alliance Networks: A Focus on Hospital Performance<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Evelyn Thrasher, Western Kentucky University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Managing process change in health IT implementations<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Amit Deokar and Surendra Sarnikar, Dakota State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Computational Models for Investigating Success and Failure in Treating Patients with Type 2 Diabetes<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Gregory W. Ramsey, Morgan State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Paul Johnson, University of Minnesota, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Patrick O’Connor, Health Partners Research Foundation, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Patient Health Record systems: Trust and Privacy Perspective<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Han Li, Ashish Gupta, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Jie Zhang, Midwestern State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Improving ICU Roundings<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Ashish Gupta, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Ramesh Sharda, Oklahoma State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Yue Dong, Brian Pickering, Ognjen Gajic, Mayo Clinic, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Ashish Gupta, PhD</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Associate Professor </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>School of Business</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Minnesota State University Moorhead</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Moorhead MN 56563</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Phone: (218) 477-4651</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><a href="http://www.mnstate.edu/gupta/"></a></span><span style='color:#C00000'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>