Doctoral Student's Paper Published in IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering Journal
Adrien Badré, an exchange student from Clermont Ferrand, France, earned his Master of Science in Data Science and Analytics from OU in 2018 and is pursuing a doctorate in computer science. Badré worked on his master’s thesis under the guidance of Dr. Shima Mohebbi. His thesis, , Secure Decentralized Decisions to Enhance Coordination in Consolidated Hospital Systems, was published in the October IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering journal. The paper’s co-authors include Dr. Shima Mohebbi, , and Leili Soltanisehat, a doctoral student in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. The paper focuses on shared decision-making paradigm and patients referral, which has become a crucial solution to build a consolidated healthcare system. According to the abstract , while there is some research in the healthcare literature discussing the advantages and disadvantages of shared decision making, its efficiency has not been addressed quantitatively. In this pa...