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Dr. Raj Sharman

Visiting Faculty, School of Business, Bengaluru

Qualification: MS, Ph.D

Bio

Dr. Raj Sharman currently serves as Visiting Faculty at the School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru Campus. He is a Professor of Management Science and Systems, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Prof. Sharman’s research is focused on extreme events from a decision-support system perspective and on health information technology-related issues. This includes factors influencing online health information search, meaningful use of ambulatory EMR, resilience in hospital information systems, health information exchanges, health care social networks as well as a simulation based study for managing the hospital’s emergency room capacity in extreme events, active shooter incidents and mass casualty event management.

His expertise also includes information systems infrastructure management as it relates to information assurance, internet performance and distributed computing. Sharman’s papers have been published in a number of national and international journals, and he is the recipient of several grants from the university as well as external agencies, including the National Science Foundation.

He serves as an associate editor for the following journals: Journal of Information Systems Security, Journal of Information Privacy and Security, and Springer Security Informatics Journal.

Publications

Journal Article

Year : 2016

Factors Impacting the Intention to Use Emergency Notification Services in Campus Emergencies: An Empirical Investigation

Cite this Research Publication : Serkan Ada, Raj Sharman, Wencui Han, Joseph A. Brennan, Factors Impacting the Intention to Use Emergency Notification Services in Campus Emergencies: An Empirical Investigation, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016, https://doi.org/10.1109/tpc.2016.2527248

Publisher : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Year : 2016

The Complementarity and Substitutability Relationships Between Information Technology and Benefits and Duration of Unemployment

Cite this Research Publication : Winston T. Lin, Ta-Wei (Daniel) Kao, Chia-Ching Chou, Raj Sharman, N.C. Simpson, The complementarity and substitutability relationships between information technology and benefits and duration of unemployment, Decision Support Systems, Elsevier BV, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2016.06.015

Publisher : Elsevier BV

Year : 2015

Factors Impacting the Adoption of Social Network Sites for Emergency Notification Purposes in Universities

Cite this Research Publication : Wencui Han, Serkan Ada, Raj Sharman, Robin Hattersley Gray, Anand Simha, Factors impacting the adoption of social network sites for emergency notification purposes in universities, International Journal of Business Information Systems, Inderscience Publishers, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1504/ijbis.2015.066129

Publisher : Inderscience Publishers

Year : 2015

Health Information Exchange as a Multisided Platform: Adoption, Usage, and Practice Involvement in Service Co-Production

Cite this Research Publication : Yaraghi, N., Ye, D., Sharman, R., Gopal, R., Ramesh, R., “Health Information Exchange as a Multi-sided Platform:  Adoption, Usage and Practice Involvement in Service Co-Production”,  Information Systems Research (ISR), November 18, 2014.

Year : 2015

Impact of Electronic Diabetes Registry ‘Meaningful Use’ on Quality of Care and Hospital Utilization

Cite this Research Publication : Wencui Han, Raj Sharman, Arvela Heider, Nancy Maloney, Min Yang, Ranjit Singh, Impact of electronic diabetes registry ‘Meaningful Use’ on quality of care and hospital utilization, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocv040

Publisher : Oxford University Press (OUP)

Year : 2015

Exploring Factors Impacting Sharing Health-Tracking Records

Cite this Research Publication : Anton Ivanov, Raj Sharman, H. Raghav Rao, Exploring factors impacting sharing health-tracking records, Health Policy and Technology, Elsevier BV, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2015.04.008

Publisher : Elsevier BV

Year : 2015

Drivers of Information Disclosure on Health Information Exchange Platforms: Insights from an Exploratory Empirical Study

Cite this Research Publication : Niam Yaraghi, Raj Sharman, Ram Gopal, Ranjit Singh, R Ramesh, Drivers of information disclosure on health information exchange platforms: insights from an exploratory empirical study, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocv086

Publisher : Oxford University Press (OUP)

Year : 2015

Disaster Experience and Hospital Information Systems: An Examination of Perceived Information Assurance, Risk, Resilience, and HIS Usefulness1

Cite this Research Publication : Insu Park, Raj Sharman, H. Raghav Rao, Disaster Experience and Hospital Information Systems: An Examination of Perceived Information Assurance, Risk, Resilience, and HIS Usefulness1, MIS Quarterly, MIS Quarterly, 2015, https://doi.org/10.25300/misq/2015/39.2.03

Publisher : MIS Quarterly

Year : 2015

Campus Emergency Notification Systems

Cite this Research Publication : Han, W., Sharman, R., Ada, S., Rao, H. R., “Campus Emergency Notification Systems: An Examination of Factors Affecting Compliance with Alerts “,  Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), Volume 39, Number 4, December 2015, pp. 909-929.

Publisher : JSTOR

Year : 2014

Professional and Geographical Network Effects on Healthcare Information Exchange Growth: Does Proximity Really Matter?

Cite this Research Publication : N. Yaraghi, A. Y. Du, R. Sharman, R. D. Gopal, R. Ramesh, R. Singh, G. Singh, Professional and geographical network effects on healthcare information exchange growth: does proximity really matter?, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014, https://doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001293

Publisher : Oxford University Press (OUP)

Year : 2014

Factors Influencing Online Health Information Search: An Empirical Analysis of a National Cancer-Related Survey

Cite this Research Publication : Nan Xiao, Raj Sharman, H.R. Rao, Shambhu Upadhyaya, Factors influencing online health information search: An empirical analysis of a national cancer-related survey, Decision Support Systems, Elsevier BV, 2014, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2012.10.047

Publisher : Elsevier BV

Year : 2013

Network Effects in Health Information Exchange Growth

Cite this Research Publication : Niam Yaraghi, Anna Ye Du, Raj Sharman, Ram D. Gopal, R. Ramesh, Network Effects in Health Information Exchange Growth, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2013, https://doi.org/10.1145/2445560.2445561

Publisher : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Education
  • Ph. D. (Management Science and Systems Department), Louisiana State University
  • M. S. Louisiana State University
  • M. S. Indian Institute of Technology
  • B. S. Indian Institute of Technology
Expertise
  • Information Assurance
  • Disaster Preparedness and Response Management
  • Health Information Systems
  • Internet Performance
  • Database/Imaging Systems and Analytics
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