I received my undergraduate and graduate degrees in India [from National Institute of Technology, in 1993; and Indian Statistical Institute, in 1996 respectively), and PhD (in 2008) from Syracuse University. Prior to 2002, I have worked in manufacturing and software industry. My corporate experience include quality management, software development, and compliance with international standards such as ISO 9001, and Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model. Besides research, my interests include photography, travel, and tennis.

Career Transition: this summer moving to University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston as a faculty in their Division of Management, Policy and Community Health.

AMA - American Medical News (amednews.com): "More complex EHRs can result in declines of quality measures," Sept 4, 2012.

Information Week: "Advanced EHRs Vs. Hospital Quality Of Care," August 23, 2012.

Becker’s Hospital Review: "Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records: Does it Improve Health Outcomes?" August 10, 2012.

U.S. News & World Reoprt: "Hospitals Should Not Adopt New Healthcare IT Program Too Quickly," August 10, 2012

"Meaningful Use of EHR Systems and Process Quality of Care: Evidence from a Panel Data Analysis of US Acute-Care Hospitals," (with Eric Johnson, and Denise Anthony) Health Services Research, 48(2, Part I): 354-375 [Lead Article for the April 2013 issue of HSR]. This article can be accessed from HSR website for free.

"Medication Administration Quality and Health Information Technology: A National Study of US Hospitals," (with Emily Carian, Eric Johnson, and Denise Anthony), JAMIA (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association), 19(3): 360-367 [Recognized as the article of Editor's Choice]. This article can be accessed from JAMIA website for free.

"Information Security Risk and Privacy in Healthcare: Current State of Research," (with Eric Johnson ), International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, 6(4), pp. 279-314, 2010.

"Organizing Compliance: The Role of Organizational, Institutional, and Market Forces in HIPAA Compliance in Acute Care Hospitals," (with Eric Johnson, and Denise Anthony).

"Information Technology and Patient Safety: Evidence from a National Cross-sectional Study," (with Eric Johnson, and Denise Anthony). Under Review.

"Organizational Structure, Market Factors, and Outcomes Quality in Home Health Care: A Longitudinal Study" (solo authored)

"Health Information Technology and Hospital Performance on Imaging-use Measures," (with Eric Johnson, and Denise Anthony)

other ongoing projects include studying organizational impact of health IT at system affiliated home health agencies, and ambulatory care providers.

"Pricing E-Service Quality Risk in Financial Services" (with Michel Benaroch ), Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 10(5): 534-544, 2011.

"Monetary Pricing of Software Project Risks: A Method and Empirical Illustration" (with Michel Benaroch ), Journal of Systems and Software, 83(11), pp. 2098-2107, 2010.

"Financial Pricing of Software Development Risk Factors," (with Michel Benaroch), IEEE Software, 27(5), pp. 65-73, 2010.

"Hospital Safety and HIT: A Cross-sectional Study of US Acute-Care Hospitals," (with Eric Johnson, and Denise Anthony) INFORMS, Phoenix, AZ, October 2012

"Hospital Safety and HIT: A Cross-sectional Study of US Acute-Care Hospitals," (with Eric Johnson, and Denise Anthony) Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE), Washington DC, October 2012.

"Meaningful Use of EHR Systems and Patient Safety: A National Study of US Hospitals," (with Eric Johnson, and Denise Anthony) Academy of Management– Health Care Management Professional Development Workshop, Boston, August 2012.

"Meaningful Use of EHR Systems and Patient Safety: A National Study of US Hospitals," (with Eric Johnson, and Denise Anthony) Poster Presentation at AcademyHealth Conference, Orlando, June 2012.

"Meaningful Use of EHR Systems and Process Quality of Care: Evidence from a Panel Data Analysis of US Acute-Care Hospitals," (with Eric Johnson, and Denise Anthony) Poster Presentation at AcademyHealth Conference, Orlando, June 2012.

"Medication Administration Quality and Health Information Technology: A National Study of US Hospitals," (with Eric Johnson and Denise Anthony) Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE), Washington DC, 2011.

"Medication Quality and Health Information Technology" (with Emily Carian, Eric Johnson and Denise Anthony) AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Seattle, 2011.

"Impact of Health Information Technology Portfolio on Hospital Quality: A National Study of U.S. Acute Care Facilities," (with Denise Anthony and Eric Johnson), (Poster Presentation) AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Boston, 2010.

"The Neo-Institutional View of HIPAA Compliance in Home Health Care,” (with Eric Johnson and Denise Anthony), the Fourth Workshop on Information Security and Privacy, Phoenix, 2009.

"HIPAA Compliance in Home Health: A Neo-Institutional Theoretic Perspective," (with Eric Johnson and Denise Anthony), Proceedings of the Security and Privacy in Medical and Home-Care Systems – An ACM CCS Workshop, Chicago, IL, 2009.

"HIPAA Compliance: An Examination of Institutional and Market Forces," (with Denise Anthony and Eric Johnson ), The Eighth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, University College London, England, 2009.

"HIPAA Compliance: An Institutional Theory Perspective," (with Eric Johnson and Denise Anthony), Proceedings of the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), San Francisco, CA, 2009.

"Which Hospitals are Complying with HIPAA: An Empirical Investigation of US Hospitals,” (with Eric Johnson and Denise Anthony), The Third Workshop on Information Security and Privacy, Paris, 2008.

"Information Security Investments in the Healthcare Sector: An Exploratory Study,” (with Denise Anthony and Eric Johnson ), A Poster Presentation at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 2008.

"Pricing IT Investment Risks Involving Customer Adoption Benchmarks,” (With Michel Benaroch), Proceedings of the INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 2008.

"A Formal Model and Methodology for Measuring IT Investment Risks,” (With Michel Benaroch), Academy of Management Annual meeting , Atlanta, 2006.

"Pricing the Risks of IT Investments: A Multifactor Approach,” (with Michel Benaroch), Proceedings of the Journal of Information Systems – New Scholars Research Workshop, Scottsdale, 2006.

"A Viable Approach for Measuring the Risk-Return Relationship of IT Investments,” (with Michel Benaroch ), Proceedings of the 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems , Omaha, 2005.

"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), 2006, pp 100 – 101.