The Kay Center publishes its research in a variety of formats. These documents represent a collaboration of doctoral researchers, Kay Center faculty, and our visiting scholars combined with the expertise of leaders from a cross-section of industry, government and the academic community.

We invite you to explore the knowledge presented here. In our various publications you will find information ranging from the challenges of disability determination in America to the adoption of personal health records within various sectors of the nation’s workforce. Perhaps you will even find something that inspires you to take action and transform public policy through your own research.

Recent Research

Journal Articles

2011

Feldman, S., and Horan, T. (2011). The Dynamics of Information Collaboration: A Case Study of Blended IT Value Propositions for Health Information Exchange in Disability Determination, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 12: Issue. 2, Article 1.

Botts, N., Horan, T., and Thoms, B. (2011). Personal Health Cyberinfrastructure for the Underserved: HealthATM Design Requirements for Patient Activation and Care Coordination, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Special Edition on Cyberinfrastructure, Pages S115-S122.

Chismar, W., Horan, T., Hesse, B., Feldman, S., and Shaikh, A. (2011). Cyberinfrastructure for Public Health and Health Services: Toward Use-Inspired Research and Practice Collaboration, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Special Edition on Cyberinfrastructure, 2011;40(5S2):S108–S114.

Hilton, B., Horan, T., Schooley, B., and Burkhard, R. (2011). SafeRoadMaps: Communication of Location and Density of Traffic Fatalities through Spatial Visualization and Heat Map. Analysis, Information Visualization, 10: 82-96, doi:10.1057/ivs.2010.14

Reynoso, J., Ryan, T., Olfman, O., Horan, T. (2011). An Information Systems Design Theory for an Expert System for Training, Journal of DataBase Management, accepted for publication.

Feldman, S., and Horan, T. (2011). Collaboration in Electronic Medical Evidence Development: A Case Study of Social Security Administration’s MEGAHIT System. International Journal on Medical Informatics, accepted for publication

Feldman, S., Horan, T., Al-Buhairan, F., Lytle, N., and Tulu, B. (2011). Information Systems for Disability Determination, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, accepted for publication

2010

Schooley, B., Horan, T., and Marich, M. (2010). Managing IT collaboration in Multi-Organizational Time-Critical Services. MIS Quarterly Executive, 9:3,117-131.

Horan, T., Botts, N., Burkhard, R. (2010). A Multidimensional View of Personal Health Systems for Underserved Populations. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 12(3):e32.

Burkhard, R., Schooley, B., Dawson, J. and Horan, T. (2010). When your Employer Provides Your Personal Health Record: Exploring Employee Perceptions of an Employer-Sponsored PHR System. Communications of the AIS, Vol. 27, Article 19.

Marich, M., Schooley, B., and Horan, T. (2010). A Normative Enterprise Architecture for Guiding End-to-End Emergency Response Decision Support, International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 2:2, 1-18.

Schooley, B., Horan, T., Lee, P., West, P. (2010). Rural Veteran Access to Health Care Services: Investigating the Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Overcoming Spatial Barriers. Perspectives in Health Information Management. Spring, 1-20.

2009

Burkhard, R., Horan, T., Hilton, B., Leih, M. (2009). Can Information Systems Foster Emotional Intelligence? A Design Theory Based Approach. Journal of International Technology and Information Management. 18:1, 99-128.

Horan, T., Daniels, S. and Feldman, S. (2009). The Prospective Role of Personal Health Records in Streamlining and Accelerating the Disability Determination Process. Disability and Health Journal. Vol. 2, 153-157

Tulu, B. and Horan T. (2009). The Electronic Disability Record: Purpose, Parameters, and
Model Use Case. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 16: 7-13.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

2011

Feldman, S., Horan, T. (2011, accepted). Cyberinfrastructure for Secondary Use of EHR Data: SSA’s Use of the Nationwide Health Information Network. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. January 4-8, 2011.

Schooley, B., Hilton, B., Abed, Y., Lee, Y., Horan, T. (2011, Accepted). Process Improvement and Consumer-Oriented Design of an Inter-organizational Information System for Emergency Medical Response.Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS), Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii, January 4-7, 2011.

Olusola, S., Schooley, B., Hilton, B., and Horan, T. Sharing Behavior In Emergencies: An Instantiation of a Utility Focused Prototype of a Secure Mobile Near Real-Time Content Device, Proceedings of the 16th Annual America Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), August 12-15, Lima, Peru.

2010

Botts, N., Thoms, B., Noamani, A., and Horan, T. (2010). Cloud Computing Architectures for the Underserved: Public Health Cyberinfrastructures through a Network of HealthATMs. Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Kauai, HI.

Hilton, B., Horan, T., McClintock, R. (2010). Visualizing the Spatial Density of Traffic Fatalities: SafeRoadMaps National Heat Maps. Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting. Jan 10-14, Washington D.C.

Schooley, B., Horan, T., Hilton, B., McClintock, R., Lee, Y, and Horan. (2010). CrashHelp: Iterative Design, Development, and Evaluation of a GIS Tool for Managing Emergency Medical Responses to Motor Vehicle Crashes. ISCRAM2010: 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. May 2-5, Seattle, WA. Best Paper Award.

2009

Lytle, N., Feldman, S., and Horan, T. (2009). Medical Evidence Information Flows for Disability Determination: An In-depth Claimant Perspective. American Medical Informatics Association. Nov 14-18, San Francisco, CA.

Botts, N., Thoms, B. and Horan, T. (2009). HealthATM: Interactive Services for Underserved Populations. American Medical Informatics Association. Nov 14-18, San Francisco, CA

Feldman, S. and Horan, T. (2009). Electronic Health Information Systems for People with Disabilities. American Public Health Association – 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition. Nov 7-11, Philadelphia, PA.

Feldman, S. and Horan, T. (2009). Intelligent Request and Release of Information for Disability Determination. Presented at the California Health Informatics Association-AHIMA Annual Conference. Jun 14-17, Palm Springs, CA.

Feldman, S., Horan, T., Al-Buhairan, F., Lytle, N., and Tulu, B. (2009). Health Information Technology Tools for Vulnerable Populations: Improving the Disability Determination Process. Poster presented at the American Medical Informatics Association Spring Congress. May 28-30, Orlando, FL.

Hilton, B., Horan, T., and Schooley, B. (2009). Making Traffic Safety Personal: Visualization and Customization of National Traffic Fatalities. Visual Information Communications International (VINCI’09), Sep 24-25, Sydney, Australia.

Hilton, B., Horan, T., and Schooley, B. (2009). Devising and Deploying SafeRoadMaps: Communicating Public Health Issues Related to Rural and Urban Road Transportation Safety Through GIS-based Mashups. Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting. Jan 11-15, Washington D.C.

Marich, M., Schooley, and Horan, T. (2009). Research, Design, and Validation of an Normative Enterprise Architecture for Guiding End-to-End Emergency Response Services. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Aug 6-9, San Francisco, CA.

Schooley, B., Horan, T., Marcus, B., McClintock, R. (2009). Health Outcomes for Motor Vehicle Accident Victims Treated at the Mayo Clinic. Poster presented at American Medical Informatics Association 2009 Annual Symposium. Nov 17, San Francisco, CA.

Schooley, B., Horan, T., Marich, M., Hilton, B. (2009). Integrated Patient Health Information Systems to Improve Traffic Crash Emergency Response and Treatment. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual IEEE Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS), Jan 6-9, Waikoloa Village, HI.

Myungiae, K., Horan, T., Hana, O. (2009). Applying Multi-Layered Analysis Framework on the Public Sector ICT Provision: An Illustration from a Municipal Wireless Network. 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Jan 2009, pp. 1-10.