Biography
Niam Yaraghi is an Assistant Professor of Business Technology at Miami Herbert Business School at the University of Miami and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation. Niam's research is focused on the economics of health information technologies. In particular, Niam studies the business models and policy structures that incentivize interoperability and sharing of health information among patients, providers, payers and regulators. Niam's research has appeared in leading business journals including Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Production and Operations Management, as well as top-tier health policy and informatics journals including Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, and Milbank Quarterly.
He regularly consults with various companies and platforms in the healthcare industry and is a sought-after expert and speaker on issues related to health information technology in media and at industry conferences.
Niam has a B.Sc in Industrial Engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology in Iran, and a M.Sc from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He received his Ph.D. in Management Science & Systems from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Education
| Ph.D. Management Science and Systems, State University of New York at Buffalo | |
| M.Sc. , Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden | |
| B.Sc. Industrial Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran |
Health information technology
Professional Experience
| 2017 - 2020 | Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut School of Business |
Publications
ARTICLES IN BUSINESS JOURNALS
Goapl, R., Hidaji, H., Kutlu, S., Patterson, R., Yaraghi, N. Law, Economics and Privacy: Implications of Government Policies on Website and Third-Party Information Sharing at Information Systems Research (forthcoming).
Eftekhari, S., Yaraghi, N., Gopal, R., Ramesh, R. Impact of Health Information Exchange Adoption on Referral Patterns Management Science (forthcoming).
Venkatesan, S, Valecha, R., Yaraghi, N., Rao, R. Influence in Social Media: An Investigation of Tweets Spanning the 2011 Egyptian Social Movement, (MIS Quarterly 45(3): 1679-1714. 2021).
Yaraghi, N, Gopal, R., Ramesh, R. Doctor's Orders or Patient’s Preferences? Examining the Role of Physicians in Patients’ Privacy Decisions on Health Information Exchange Platforms, (Journal of the Association for Information Systems 20(7): 928-952. 2019).
Han, X., Yaraghi, N., Gopal, R. Winning at All Costs: Analysis of Inflation in Nursing Homes’ Rating System, (Production & Operations Management 27(2): 215-233. 2018).
Yaraghi, N., Du, A., Sharman, R., Gopal, R., Ramesh, R. Health Information Exchange as a MultiSided Platform: Adoption, Usage and Practice Involvement in Service Co-Production, (Information Systems Research 26(1): 1-18. 2015).
ARTICLES IN MEDICAL & HEALTH POLICY JOURNALS
Gopal, R., Hidaji, H., Patterson, R., Yaraghi, N. Dark Clouds and Silver Linings: Impact of COVID-19 on Internet Users’ Privacy, (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Open 4(4), 2021, 1–6. 2021).
Gopal, R., Han, X., Yaraghi. N. Compress the Curve: A Cross Sectional Study of Variations in COVID-19 Infections Across California Nursing Homes, (BMJ Open 11:e042804. 2021).
Yaraghi, N., West, D,. Gopal, R., Ramesh, R. (How) Did Attack Advertisements Increase Affordable Care Act Enrollments?, (PLos ONE 15(2): e0228185. 2020).
Yaraghi, N., Gopal, R. The Role of HIPAA Omnibus Rules in Reducing the Frequency of Medical Data Breaches: Insights from an Empirical Study, (The Milbank Quarterly 96(1): 144-166. 2018).
Yaraghi, N., Wang, W., Gao, G., Agarwal, R. How Online Quality Ratings Influence Patients’ Choice of Medical Providers: A Controlled Experimental Survey Study, (Journal of Medical Internet Research 20(30): e99. 2018).
Yaraghi, N. An Empirical Analysis of the Financial Benefits of Health Information Exchange in Emergency Departments, (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 22(6): 1169–1172. 2015).
Yaraghi, N., Sharman, R., Gopal, R., Ramesh, R., Singh, R. Drivers of Information Disclosure on Health Information Exchange Platforms: Insights from an Exploratory Empirical Study, (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 22(6): 1183-1186. 2015).
Yaraghi, N., Du, A., Sharman, R., Gopal, R., Ramesh, R., Singh, R., Singh, G. Professional and Geographical Network Effects on Healthcare Information Exchange Growth: Does Proximity Really Matter?, (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 21(4): 671–678. 2014).
ARTICLES IN COMPUTING & ENGINEERING JOURNALS
Han, X., Yaraghi, N., Gopal, R. Catching Them Red-handed: Optimizing the Nursing Homes’ Rating System, (ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems 10(2): 7. 2019).
Eftekhari, S., Yaraghi, N., Singh, R., Gopal, R., Ramesh, R. Do Health Information Exchanges Deter Repetition of Medical Services?, (ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems 8(1): 2. 2017).
Yaraghi, N., Tabesh, P., Guan, P., Zhuang, J. Comparison of AHP and Monte Carlo AHP Under Different Levels of Uncertainty, (IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 62(1): 122–132. 2015).
Yaraghi, N., Du, A., Sharman, R., Gopal, R., Ramesh, R. Network Effects in Health Information Exchange Growth, (ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems 4(1): 1. 2013).
Yaraghi, N., Langhe, R. Critical Success Factors for Risk Management Systems, (Journal of Risk Research 14(5): 551–581. 2011).
