Saligrama Agnihothri | Source | Professor of Supply Chain and Business Analytics at Binghamton University, St...
Saligrama Agnihothri
Saligrama Agnihothri is a Professor of Supply Chain and Business Analytics in the School of Management at Binghamton University. Professor Agnihothri holds B.Sc. in Mathematics and M.Sc. in Statistics from Karnatak University, Dharwad, India, and M.S. in Operations Research and Ph.D. in Operations Management from the University of Rochester. His research interests include improving efficiency and quality in healthcare operations, managing field service operations, and process flexibility and cross-training decisions in services. Professor Agnihothri has published in leading Operations Management journals including Operations Research, Production and Operations management, Health Care Management Science, Journal of Hypertension, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, Decision Sciences, Interfaces, and Management Decision. He was an Associate Editor of Management Science, the leading journal in his area, for eight years and is currently in the editorial board of Production and Operations Management journal. He has developed and taught many courses in the area of Supply Chain and Business Analytics for academics and executives including Business Analytics, Decision Modeling and Risk Analysis, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Healthcare Analytics, Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement, Managing Service Operations, and Managing Design for Quality. He was awarded the School of Management Corning Glass Innovation and Research Award. He was also awarded Graduate Management Award for Excellence in Teaching by MBA students multiple times.
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Binghamton University, State University of New York
Professor of Supply Chain and Business Analytics
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Health apps track vital health stats for millions of people, but doctors aren't using the data – here's how it could reduce costs and patient outcomes
Connecting health apps to health care can enable better care for patients with chronic diseases, and it has the potential to lower skyrocketing US health spending.
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Health-tracking devices and apps are becoming part of everyday life. More than 300,000 mobile phone applications claim to help with managing diverse personal health issues, from monitoring blood glucose levels to conceiving a child.
But so far the potential for health-tracking apps to improve health care has barely been tapped. While they allow a user to collect and record personal health data, and sometimes even share it with friends and family, these apps typically don’t connect that information to a patient’s digital medical chart or make it easier for health care providers to monitor or share feedback with their patients.
As a professor and a researcher in the field of operations management, my current research focuses on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of health care delivery. My colleagues and I recently published a multiyear study showing that integrating a mobile health app with ongoing medical care can significantly improve the health of patients with hypertension – a widespread, serious and potentially deadly chronic medical condition.
But it’s not easy to use health apps this way as a regular part of medical care in the U.S.
