Recent Works
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.
Perspectives on Firm Decision Making During Risky Technology Acquisitions
-Explores the decision making process behind how hospitals acquire CT machines.
-Using a sample of over 200 radiologists and radiology administrators, finds that uncertainty about a CT machine's performance in satisfying customer desires plays a greater role in the purchasing process than uncertainty about a CT machine's financial performance
-Written as my Wharton Ph.D. dissertation
The Increased Financial Burden of Further Proposed Orthopaedic Resident Work-Hour Reductions
-Estimates the cost of the orthopaedic resident work hour reductions caused by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's 2003 mandate
-Predicts the cost of further work hour reductions
Investing in Renminbi: Practical Approaches
-Personal finance article on means of profiting from the dollar/renminbi exchange rate
-Published in a journal distributed in both China and the U.S.
The Impact of Workload on Hospital Reimbursement: Overworked Servers Generate Lower Income
-Examines the impact of workload on the Diagnosis Related Group assignments and payments resulting from work in a hospital's trauma department
-Finds that the hospital receives lower reimbursements when its trauma department has a high workload and treats patients with infrequently seen conditions
To Our Health: The Role of IT in Healthcare
-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
The Young and Old
-My MIT application essay
