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Eric W. Ford, MPH, Ph.D.

Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration

Director, Health Organization Management Program

Director, Center for Health Innovation, Education & Research

Rawls Professor in Healthcare Management

 
Contact Information

Office: Business Administration 1002
Phone: (806) 742-1535
Fax: (806) 742-3434
E-mail: eric.ford@ttu.edu

Websites: TTU Experts

Biography

Eric W. Ford (Ph.D. University of Alabama at Birmingham) is the Rawls Professor of Healthcare Organization Management and the Director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation, Education and Research.  Eric’s research interests have focused on strategic management, health care organizations, and information technology systems. Currently, he is part of two Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grants. One is studying the Regional Health Information Organization for rural Louisiana. The second is studying the Leapfrog Group’s patient safety initiatives in hospitals. He has published in The Academy of Management Executive, The Journal of American Informatics Association, Medical Care Research and Review, Health Care Management Review, Public Health, Business Economics, The Journal of Management Education, and The Journal of Health Care Management, among others.

Current CV

Recent Publications

 

Publications (Most Recent First)
Technological iatrogenesis: New risks necessitate heightened management awareness (full text)
Hospitals Responses to Leapfrog in Local Markets (full text)
Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) Adoption in U.S. Hospitals: Can the Federal Mandate Be Met? (full text)
The Impact of Health Networks and Systems Configurations on Patient Safety Initiative Responses (full text)
The Effect of Information Technology (IT) Investments on Firm-Level Performance in the Healthcare Industry (full text)
Promise and Problems with Supply Chain Management Approaches to Health Care Purchasing (full text)
Incomplete EHR Adoption: Late Uptake of Patient Safety and Cost Control Functions (full text)
The Influence of Payer- Mix on EHR Adoption by Physicians (full text)
A Collaborative Product Commerce Approach to Value-based Health Plan Purchasing (full text)
Entrepreneurship in the Board Room: Board Roles in Managing Innovation and Risk. Advances in Healthcare Management (full text)
People, Places, and Life Transitions: Consequential Experiences in the Lives of Management Laureates (full text)
The Effect of Managed Care Penetration and other Factors on the use of CPOE by Physicians in the Ambulatory Setting (full text)
Community Based Coalitions’ Capacity for Sustainable Action: The Role of Relationships (full text)
Assessing Managed Care Organization Sponsored Disease Management Programs from a Value Purchasing
Perspective (full text)
Predicting the Adoption of Electronic Health Records by Physicians: When will Health Care be Paperless? (full text)
Communication Clarity in Strategic Management Date Sources. Strategic Organizations (full text)
Health Departments’ Implementation of Public Health’s Core Functions: An Assessment of Health Impacts (full text)
Strategic Management and Performance Differences: Nonprofit versus For-Profit Health Care Organizations (full text)
Tracing The Evolution of Pluralism in Two Community-Based Coalitions (full text)
Experiencing Job Burnout: The Roles of Positive and Negative Traits and States (full text)
Sustainable Network Advantages: A Game Theoretic Approach to Community-Based Health Care Coalitions (full text)
High Performance Public Health: Assessing Agencies' Strategic Management Capabilities (full text)
Mitigating Risks, Visible Hands, Inevitable Disasters, and Soft Variables: Management Research that Matters to Managers (full text)
The Structure of State Health Agencies: A Strategic Analysis (full text)
Community of Scholars: An Exploratory of Management Laureates (full text)
The Future of Defined Contribution Health Plans (full text)
Economic Implications of Defined Contribution Health Plans (full text)
Shovels, Trowels, and Ice Cream Scoops: In Search of the Right Tool to Explain Scientific Management (full text)
From Medpartners to Caremark RX, Inc: Prescription for Success (full text)
The Information Superhighway - Are Management Faculty Still Parked in the Driveway? (full text)
Creating a Healing Environment: The importance of the Service Setting in the New Consumer-Oriented Healthcare System (full text)
Attitudes of Organized Labor Officials toward Health Care Issues: An Exploratory Survey of Alabama Labor Officials (full text)
Benchmarking Best Practices in HIM Education (full text)