Health Information Technology & EHR Adoption

Diana M.L., Harle C.A., Huerta T.R., Ford E.W., & Menachemi N. (2014) Hospitals Characteristics Associated with Achievement of Meaningful Use. Journal of Healthcare Management, 59(4):272-284.

Harle, C. A., Huerta, T. R., Ford, E. W., Diana, M. L., & Menachemi, N. (2012). Overcoming challenges to achieving meaningful use: insights from hospitals that successfully received Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services payments in 2011. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 20(2), 233-237.

Shin, D.Y., Menachemi, N., Kazley, A.S., Diana, M.L., & Ford, E.W. (2012) Payer-Mix and EHR Adoption in Hospitals. Journal of Healthcare Management, 57(6), 435-438.

Menachemi, N., Mazurenko, O., Kazley, A. S., Diana, M. L., & Ford, E. W. (2012). Market factors and electronic medical record adoption in medical practices. Health Care Management Review, 37(1), 14-22.

Kazley, A. S., Diana, M. L., & Menachemi, N. (2012). Is EHR Use Associated with Patient Satisfaction in Hospitals? Health Care Management Review, 37(1), 23-30.

Diana, M. L., Kazley, A. S., & Menachemi, N. (2012). Hospital Characteristics Related to the Intention to Apply for Meaningful Use Incentive Payments. Perspectives in Health Information Management / AHIMA, American Health Information Management Association, 9, 1h.

Zhivan, N. A., & Diana, M. L. (2011). U.S. hospital efficiency and adoption of health information technology. Health Care Management Science, 15(2), 37-47.

Kazley, A. S., Diana, M. L., & Menachemi, N. (2011). The Agreement and Internal Consistency of National Hospital EMR Measures. Health Care Management Science, 14(4), 303-313.

Diana, M. L., Kazley, A. S., & Menachemi, N. (2011). An assessment of Health Care Information and Management Systems Society and Leapfrog data on computerized provider order entry. Health Services Research, 46(5), 1575-1591.

Kazley, A. S., & Diana, M. L. (2011). Hospital computerized provider order entry adoption and quality: An examination of the United States. Health Care Management Review, 36(1), 86-94.

Burke, D. E., Wang, B., Wan, T. T. H., & Diana, M. L. (2002). Exploring hospitals' adoption of information technology. Journal of Medical Systems, 26(4), 349-355.

Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Yeager, V.A., Vest, J.R., Walker, D.M., Diana, M.L., Menachemi, N. (2017). Challenges to conducting health information exchange research and evaluation: Reflections and recommendations for examining the value of HIE. eGEMS. 5(1).

Khurshid, A., Diana, M.L. & Jain, R. (2015) Health Information Exchange Readiness for Demonstrating Return on Investment and Quality of Care. Perspectives in Health Information Management / AHIMA, American Health Information Management Association.

Yeager, V., Walker, D.M., Cole, E., Mora, A.M. & Diana, M.L. (2014) Factors Related to Health Information Exchange Participation and Use. Journal of Medical Systems. 38(8):78-87.

Khurshid, A., Diana, M.L. & Luce, S. (2012) Health Information Exchange: Metrics to Address Quality of Care and Return on Investment. Perspectives in Health Information Management / AHIMA, American Health Information Management Association, 9, 1e.

Walker, D.M., Huerta, T. & Diana, M.L. (2016). A conceptual model for achieving value for provider organizations participating in health information exchange. International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior. 19(2), 233.

Walker, D. M., & Diana, M. L. (2016). Hospital Adoption of Health Information Technology to Support Public Health Infrastructure. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 22(2), 175-181.

Evaluation Report

Louisiana Health Information Exchange Evaluation (2012-2014). $210,350 | Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum. Evaluation of Louisiana's statewide health information exchange system examining provider participation, infrastructure development, e-prescribing adoption, and utilization patterns. Report: Louisiana Health Information Exchange Program Evaluation Report (2014).

Medicaid & Healthcare Policy

Callison, K., Walker, B., Stoecker, C., Self, J. & Diana, M.L. (2021) Medicaid Expansion Reduced Uncompensated Care Costs at Louisiana Hospitals; May Be a Model for Other States. Health Affairs. 40(3), https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01677.

Zhang, Y. & Diana, M.L. (2017). Effects of Early Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plans on Health Expenditure. Health Services Research. 53(4), 2165-2184.

Cole, E. S., Campbell, C., Diana, M. L., Webber, L., & Culbertson, R. (2015). Patient-centered medical homes in Louisiana had minimal impact on Medicaid population's use of acute care and costs. Health Aff (Millwood), 34(1), 87-94.

Cole, E. S., Walker, D., Mora, A., & Diana, M. L. (2014). Identifying hospitals that may be at most financial risk from Medicaid disproportionate-share hospital payment cuts. Health Aff (Millwood), 33(11), 2025-2033. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0109

Evaluation Reports

Louisiana Medicaid Expansion Evaluation (2017-2019). $1,883,932 | Louisiana Department of Health.

Comprehensive evaluation of Louisiana's Medicaid expansion impact on 475,000+ newly enrolled beneficiaries across four domains: access to care, economic impact, health outcomes, and beneficiary/provider perspectives.

Reports

• Louisiana Medicaid Expansion and Access to Care (2019).

• Louisiana Medicaid Expansion: Cost and Economic Impact (2020).

• Louisiana Medicaid Expansion: Health Outcomes (2020).

• Provider and Beneficiary Perspectives on the Louisiana Medicaid Expansion (2020).

Louisiana 1115 Substance Use Disorder Waiver Evaluation (2018-2023). $226,991 | Louisiana Department of Health.

Five-year evaluation of Louisiana's Section 1115 Demonstration waiver addressing the opioid use disorder epidemic. Examined access to evidence-based SUD care, medication-assisted treatment expansion, care coordination, and health outcomes.

Report

Evaluation of the State of Louisiana Substance Use Disorder Section 1115 Demonstration: Summative Report (2024).

Accountable Care Organizations & Health Systems Integration

Torres, J. S. and M. L. Diana (2024). Associations Between Integration and Patient Experience in Hospital-Based Health Systems: An Exploration of Horizontal and

Vertical Forms of Integration. J Healthc Manag 69(5): 321-334. 10.1097/JHM-D-23-00266.

Walker D.M., Mora A.M., Hogan T., Diana M.L., & McAlearney, A.S. (2018) Assessing trends in hospital system structures from 2008 to 2015. Medical Care. 56(10), 831-839.

Duggal, R., Zhang, Y., & Diana, M.L. (2018) The association between ACO participation and readmission rates. Journal of Healthcare Management. 63(5), e100-e114.

Diana, M. L., Zhang, Y., Yeager, V., Stoecker, C., & Counts, C. (2019). The impact of accountable care organization participation on hospital patient experience. Health Care Management Review. 44(2), 148-158.

Diana, M.L., Walker, D.M., Mora, A.M, & Zhang, Y. (2015) Vertical integration strategies in healthcare organizations. Journal of Health Administration Education. 32(2), 223-244.

Yeager, V. A., Zhang, Y., & Diana, M. L. (2015). Analyzing determinants of hospitals' Accountable Care Organizations participation: A Resource Dependency Theory Perspective. Medical Care Research & Review. 72(6), 687-706.

Quality, Outcomes, & Patient Experience

Wisniewski, J., Diana, M.L., Yeager, V.A., & Hotchkiss, D.R. (2018) Comparison of objective measures and patients' perceptions of quality of services in government health facilities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 30(6), 472-479.

Landers, G.M., Ketsche, P., Diana, M.L., & Campbell, C. (2017) County smoke-free laws and asthma discharges: Evidence from 17 US States. Canadian Respiratory Journal. (2017), 6 pages.

Huerta, T. R., Harle, C. A., Ford, E. W., Diana, M. L., & Menachemi, N. (2016). Measuring Patient Satisfaction's Relationship to Hospital Cost Efficiency: Can Administrators Make a Difference? Health Care Management Review. 41(1), 56-63.

Kazley, A.S., Ford, E.W., Diana, M.L., and Menachemi, N. (2015). Market Factors Related to Hospital Patient Satisfaction. Journal of Hospital Administration. 4(4), 40-47.

Ford E.W., Huerta T.R., Diana M.L., Kazley A.S. & Menachemi N. (2013) Patient satisfaction scores and their relationship to hospital website quality measures. Health Marketing Quarterly 30(4):334-348.

Health Management Education & Workforce

Diana, M. L., Gelmon, S. B., Broom, K. D., Landry, A. Y., Oetjen, D., & Ullmann, S. (2026). Transforming Accreditation in Health Management Education: A Stakeholder-Driven Call to Action. Journal of Health Administration Education, 42(1), 93–116.

Diana, M. L., Campbell, C. R., Stranova, T. J., & Long, H. W. (2011). Faculty productivity expectations among CAHME-Accredited programs. Journal of Health Administration Education, 28(3), 237-248.

Masri, M. D., Oetjen, R., Campbell, C. R., Webber, L., & Diana, M. L. (2011). The Distribution of Physicians Workforce in Louisiana: Results from a Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society, 163(6), 320-324.

Ford, E. W., Huerta, T. R., Diana, M. L., & Campbell, C. R. (2009). A Student Journaling Exercise: Preparing for Competency-based Curricula. The Journal of Health Administration Education, (26)3, 1-14.

International Health Systems

Wisniewski, J. M., Yeager, V. A., Diana, M. L., & Hotchkiss, D. R. (2016). Exploring the barriers to rigorous monitoring and evaluation of health systems strengthening activities: qualitative evidence from international development partners. International Journal of Health Planning and Management. doi: 10.1002/hpm.2339

Hotchkiss, D. R., Diana, M. L., & Foreit, K. (2012). How can routine health information systems improve health systems functioning in low- and middle-income countries? Assessing the evidence base. In N. Menachemi & S. Singh (Eds.), Advances in Healthcare Management (Vol. 12, pp. 25-58).

Hernandez-Avila, J. E., Palacio-Mejia, L. S., Lara-Esqueda, A., Silvestre, E., Agudelo-Botero, M., Diana, M. L., Hotchkiss, D. R., Plaza, B., Sanchez Parbul, A. (2012). Assessing the process of designing and implementing electronic health records in a statewide public health system: the case of Colima, Mexico. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 20(2), 238-244.

Healthcare Organizational Management

Shao, H., Brown, L., Diana, M.L., Schmidt, L., Mason, K., Oronce, C., & Shi, L., (2016). Estimating the costs of supporting safety-net transformation into patient-centered medical homes in post-Katrina New Orleans. Medicine. 95(39), e4990.

Diana, M. L. (2009). Exploring information systems outsourcing in U.S. hospital-based health care delivery systems. Health Care Management Science, 12(4), 434-450.

McCue, M., & Diana, M. L. (2007). Assessing the performance of free-standing hospitals. Journal of Healthcare Management, 52(5), 299-308.

Menachemi, N., Burke, D. E., Diana, M. L., & Brooks, R. (2005). Characteristics of hospitals that outsource information system functions. Journal of Healthcare Information Management, 19(1), 63-69.