Atiye Cansu Erol, PhD

Atiye (pronounced as “attyeay”) is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. Her research focuses specifically on the impact of digital technologies on health care provision for vulnerable populations, and the factors that operate at the organizational level (e.g., complementarities between adoption in different facilities) as well as the individual level (e.g., privacy) that facilitate or inhibit the use or benefit of these technologies. In her previous work, she analyzed the benefits of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) adoption by long-term care providers, showing the value of extending the health IT network beyond hospitals.

In her later work, she explores the potential of health IT in alleviating the maternal mortality crisis, analyzing the use of telehealth as a potential remedy. Her most recent work investigates the role of physical privacy in enhancing or limiting the utilization of telehealth for mental health by new mothers, a population that is susceptible to significant mental health issues.

Prior to joining Wharton for her PhD, she worked as the Strategy and Business Development Consultant of Siemens Healthineers’ Turkey region and as a management consultant at EY (Ernst & Young) in Istanbul, where she took part in large scale ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) transformation projects.

Education

• PhD, Operations, Information and Decisions , University of Pennsylvania
• BS, Industrial Engineering, Koc University

Working Papers

• Does EMR Adoption by Nursing Homes Decrease Hospitalization Costs? (with Lorin Hitt & Prasanna Tambe)
• Offline Privacy Concerns in Mental Health Utilization Through Telehealth (with Lorin Hitt & Lynn Wu)
• Investigating Racial Disparities in Maternal Health in the Telehealth Era (with Lorin Hitt & Lynn Wu)

Honors and Distinctions

• Best Student Paper, CIST 2020
• Best Student Paper Runner-up, CHITA 2020 Best Reviewer Award, Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, and Intelligent Augmentation track, ICIS 2020
• Honorable Mention, INFORMS, Undergraduate Operations Research Prize Competition 2016