Atiye Cansu Erol

Biography

Atiye (pronounced as “attyeay”) is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University. She uses empirical methods to investigate the economic and societal effect information technologies have on our lives.

Her research focuses specifically on the impact of digital technologies on health care provision for vulnerable populations and, the factors that operate at the organizational level (e.g., complementarities between adoption in different facilities) as well as the individual level (e.g., privacy) that facilitate or inhibit the use or benefit of these technologies. In her previous work, she analyzed the benefits of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) adoption by long-term care providers, showing the value of extending the health IT network beyond hospitals. In her later work, she explores the potential of health IT in alleviating the maternal mortality crisis, analyzing the use of telehealth as a potential remedy. Her most recent work investigates the role of physical privacy in enhancing or limiting the utilization of telehealth for mental health by new mothers, a population that is susceptible to significant mental health issues.

Atiye completed her PhD in Operations, Information and Decisions at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania working with Prof. Lorin Hitt. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Koç University in Istanbul, Türkiye. Prior to joining Wharton, she worked as the Strategy and Business Development Consultant of Siemens Healthineers’ Turkey region and as a management consultant at EY (Ernst & Young), where she took part in large scale ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) transformation projects.

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Education

Research Interests

• Economics of healthcare IT, business value of IT
• Health equity, IT for disadvantaged populations
• Economics of privacy

Research Affiliations

• Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics – Associate Fellow
• Mack Institute - Research Fellow

Research

• Offline Privacy Concerns in Mental Health Care Delivery Through Telehealth
  Working paper (with Lorin Hitt & Lynn Wu)
• Does EMR Adoption by Nursing Homes Decrease Hospitalization Costs?
  Under preparation for resubmission to Information Systems Research (with Lorin Hitt & Prasanna Tambe)
  • Best Student Paper, CIST 2020
  • Best Student Paper Runner-up, CHITA 2020
• Investigating Racial Disparities in Maternal Health in the Telehealth Era
  Working paper (with Lorin Hitt & Lynn Wu)
• An Analysis of Cloud and AI Use at Hospitals
  Early-stage project in collaboration with Microsoft

Achievements and Awards

• Meta – People’s Expectations and Experiences with Digital Privacy (Finalist), 2023
  Research proposal selected as finalist (with Lynn Wu)
  Project: “Consumer reactions to potential privacy violations in mobile health”
• Mack Institute Research Fellowship, 2021
  Research Grant - $8,000
• CIST (Conference on Information Systems and Technology), 2020
  Best Student Paper Award
  “Does EMR Adoption by Nursing Homes Decrease Hospitalization Costs?”
• CHITA (Conference on Health IT and Analytics), 2020
  Best Student-Authored Paper Runner-Up
  “Does EMR Adoption by Nursing Homes Decrease Hospitalization Costs?”
• ICIS (International Conference on Information Systems), 2020
  Best Reviewer Award
  Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, and Intelligent Augmentation track
• Wharton PhD Fellowship, 2018-2023
• INFORMS, Undergraduate Operations Research Prize Competition, 2016
  Honorable Mention
  “A Reformulation of the Appointment Scheduling Problem with Customer Choice Behavior and Multiple Customer Types”