Vijay Raghavan

Northern Kentucky University | NKU · Department of Business Informatics

The significant and apparent variance in hospital charges and inpatient care in the U.S. has perplexed the general public including many stakeholders such as the healthcare regulators and insurers. While the clinical side of inpatient care has been undergoing tremendous progress and standardization, the overall cost of healthcare has been balloonin...

Recent studies on information systems development have focused more on project management methods such as Agile and Kanban. These styles are often implemented at an organizational level. We study project leadership styles at an individual level to see whether different leadership styles can be employed with different types of employees and genders...

This study investigates the critical relationship between organizational system development policies, procedures and processes and the resulting security quality of the systems developed. We draw from a general software quality model to provide a theoretical foundation for testing this relationship. We used paper-based survey as well as online surv...

This study examines the current state of personal health records (PHRs) in electronic health care. Surveys report that the PHR usage is generally increasing, and yet, even an influential organization such as the Google decided to end its “Google Health” venture. If the potential for use and future growth is high, why are there so many obstacles to...

While adoption rates for electronic health records (EHRs) have improved, the reasons for significant geographical differences in EHR adoption within the USA have remained unclear. To understand the reasons for these variations across states, we have compiled from secondary sources a profile of different states within the USA, based on macroeconomic...

This teaching case focuses on the importance of a formal evaluation of information security practices using established frameworks. Such an evaluation is especially essential for organizations dealing with sensitive customer information. This case first presents the prevailing security practices of PenSource, a pension services company. A descripti...

In this paper we explore the impact of traditional versus online education delivery methods on student learning perceptions. We leverage and evaluate a unique concurrent face-to-face and distance learning educational context to measure and compare perceptions of different student groups. In this context the same instructor simultaneously conducts t...

Mobile devices and applications are becoming popular in today’s society. The number of applications available to both the patient and the healthcare provider is changing the way healthcare is being delivered and consumed. The integration of mobile devices into every-day lives is driving the changes in healthcare. While all areas of medicine are bei...

Adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) can provide an impetus to a greater degree of overall adoption of Information Technology (IT) in many healthcare organizations. In this study, using a Delphi technique, input from 40 CIO responses is analyzed to provide an insight into acceptance and adoption of EHRs at an enterprise level. Many useful fi...

Adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) can provide an impetus to a greater degree of overall adoption of Information Technology (IT) in many healthcare organizations. In this study, using a Delphi technique, input from 40 CIO responses is analyzed to provide an insight into acceptance and adoption of EHRs at an enterprise level. Many useful fi...

The introduction of Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems in the "real world" has been studied in information system literature. Critical success factors like management commitment and process reengineering have been identified with the eventual success of the ERP's implementation. As the implementation and use of ERPs has grown in the business...

The success of information systems in healthcare contexts is becoming increasingly important as the healthcare profession continues to adopt information systems for its internal operations. Using the DeLone and McLean model of information systems success that has found traction in a variety of research contexts, we develop a model for examining the...

This study explores whether organizations can employ job design strategies to relieve organizational stress for information technology (IT) professionals. The effect of flexible work schedule, employee support and training, and telecommuting as potential coping resources to relieve stress were studied. Perceived workload, role ambiguity, work facil...

This study explores whether organizations can employ job design strategies to relieve organizational stress for information technology (IT) professionals. The effect of flexible work schedule, employee support and training, and telecommuting as potential coping resources to relieve stress were studied. Perceived workload, role ambiguity, work facil...

There are many facets of managing security in information systems. Although there are prior studies that focus on how to build secure code from an architectural standpoint, an often overlooked aspect of security is the relationship between the systems development policies and procedures and the security of the systems developed. We focus on this re...

Student retention represents a continuous challenge that institutions attempt to address (Braxton, Bray, and Berger, 2000). In addition, the business community faces the problem of finding the talented workforce to fill the growing amount of open IT positions. In order to attract students to IT field, it is important to examine students’ motivation...

This study explores whether organizations can employ job design strategies to relieve organizational stress for information technology IT professionals. The effect of flexible work schedule, employee support and training, and telecommuting as potential coping resources to relieve stress were studied. Perceived workload, role ambiguity, work facilit...

This case study investigates outsourcing relationships between vendors and client. The investigation is focused on issues arising between the vendor and the client after the contract is signed off in general and with the intensity of communication over time and during the outsourcing relationship, in particular. Using a semi-structured interview ap...

Entity Relationship (ER) modeling (1976) is a popular approach to formulate a conceptual data model for designing properly structured databases. In spite of some criticisms of the model leading to numerous extensions added to the original ER model, it is generally believed to be a method of choice for designing common databases. Not surprisingly, E...

Entity Relationship (ER) modeling (1976) is a popular approach to formulate a conceptual data model for designing properly structured databases. In spite of some criticisms of the model leading to numerous extensions added to the original ER model, it is generally believed to be a method of choice for designing common databases. Not surprisingly, E...