Recent Works
Wharton
The Impact of Health IT on Consumers, Payers, and Providers from Adam Powell on Vimeo.
Adam Powell talks about how healthcare information technology is currently affecting the lives of consumers, payers, and providers, and how it will likely do so over the course of the next five years. The talk features an overview of industry, as well as descriptions of many specific applications. As the 2009 stimulus bill has provided $19 billion for funding health IT initiatives, the role that health IT plays in our society has the potential for drastically increasing over the coming years.
The Effect of Extracurricular, Employer-Held Social
Functions on Employee Job Satisfaction
-Proposes a means for testing whether an employee's
desire for social attachment to the workplace moderates the effect of
employer-held social functions on his job satisfaction
-Written to incorporate the micro-organizational
behavior literature
The Pros and Cons of Consolidation
-Examines the impact of the consolidation of a community hospital with two
academic hospitals on market competition and access to care in Chicago, Illinois
Managed Care Organization Investment in Personal Health Records
-Explores the adoption of online, patient-managed health records by insurers
MIT
To Our Health: The Role of IT in Healthcare
The Portable Document Format: Archiving Our Traditions
Sonic The Hedgehog 3: A Subtle Introduction to Japanese Culture
Apple: An Alternative Approach to Business
The Young and Old
-Investigates the impact that information technology has had on the quality and
cost of healthcare, while proposing potential means for further improvement
-Written as my MIT undergraduate thesis
-Examines the history of the Portable Document Format and what it means to be a portable document
-A video game review that explores the cultural connotations of Sonic and several similar games
-Explores Apple's strategy, circa 2005
-My MIT application essay
