Accomplishments: Department of Healthcare Administration and Policy
Zahra Mojtahedi (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Ying Guo (Environmental and Occupational Health), Pearl Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Parsa Khawari (Public Health), Hailey Ephrem (Public Health), and Jay Shen (Center for Health Disparities Research, Healthcare Administration and Policy) recently published a paper titled, "…
Jay Shen, Betty Burston, Soumya Upadhyay (Healthcare Administration and Policy), with their collaborating researchers in China, recently published a paper, "Epidemiological/Disease and Economic Burdens of Cervical Cancer in 2010–2014: Are Younger Women at Risk?," on Healthcare.
Kyle Henson (Healthcare Administration and Policy) is a recipient of the undergraduate Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Scholarship Award for 2023.
The HIMSS Foundation awards two $5,000 HIMSS Student Member scholarships annually: one to an undergraduate and one to a graduate student. The scholarships are for HIMSS…
Working with their research collaborators from China, Jay Shen, Betty Burston, and Soumya Upadhyay (all Healthcare Administration and Policy) have just published a paper, "Epidemiological/Disease and Economic Burdens of Cervical Cancer in 2010–2014: Are Younger Women at Risk?," in Healthcare. The study examined the epidemiological…
Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Jihye Kim (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) published an article titled, "Did Massachusetts' COVID-19 vaccine lottery increase vaccine uptake?," in the journal PLOS ONE. The authors' primary objective was to evaluate whether Massachusetts' COVID-19 vaccine lottery increased vaccine…
Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) co-published an article titled, "Telehealth and Outpatient Visits Among Individuals with Chronic Conditions by Socioeconomic Status in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Observational Cohort Study," in the Journal of Telemedicine and e-Health. The authors' primary objective was to…
Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and colleagues published an article titled "A higher Asthma Medication Ratio (AMR) predicts a decrease in ED visits among African American and Hispanic Children" in the Journal of Asthma.
Higher rates of ED visits and hospitalizations for asthma…
Jay Shen and Pearl Kim (both Healthcare Administration and Policy) and Ji Yoo and Laurie Kim (both Medicine) recently presented "Assessing Effects of the IETHTC Program on Clinical Outcomes and Cost of Care in a Healthcare Provider Shortage Area in USA” at the conference of ISPOR — a professional society for Health Economics and Outcomes…
Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) was the lead author of "Post-Acute Care Use Associated with Medicare Shared Savings Program and Disparities." The article was published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA). The authors' primary objective was to study the impact of hospital participation in…
Tim Grigsby (Social and Behavioral Health) was awarded a pilot grant through the Texas Resource Center on Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) for a project titled "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use Among U.S. Older Adults, 2015-2019."
The project is a secondary data analysis of publicly available nationally…
Soumya Upadhyay's (Healthcare Administration and Policy) paper titled "Physician Hospital Integration and its Effect on Hospital Performance: A Study of U.S. Hospitals" was among the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management's 'Best Paper' finalists and also received a Runners-Up award.
Yeunkyung Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy) was the lead author of "The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Care Utilization Among Insured Individuals With Common Chronic Conditions" in the August 2022 issue of the journal Medical Care. The article discusses the COVID pandemic and its significant impact on the U.S. health care…