Monica Chiarini Tremblay is an Assistant Professor in the Decision Sciences and Information Systems Department in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University in Miami. She has both research and consulting experience in the areas of data analytics and business intelligence, particularly in the context of health-care. She is currently is the Principal Investigator on a grant entitled  "Evaluation of the Implementation of the Statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) for the State of Florida" which is funded by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). She is a subcontractor on a grant awarded to Our Kids of Miami Dade and Monroe by the Health Foundation of South Florida entitled "Evaluation of Outcomes Through the Use of Electronic Medical Passports at Our Kids". She is also working as a co-investigator in two Veterans Administration, Health Services Research and Development funded studies: "Using Knowledge Discovery Strategies to Identify Fall-related Injuries in the VA", and "Using Text Mining to Differentiate Between Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom Veterans". She is also a co-investigator in "Consortium for Healthcare Informatics Research", a national initiative for the Veterans Administration, Health Services Research and Development. Along with two other faculty members at FIU, Dr. Tremblay was also awarded funding from the Central and North Florida HIMSS to lead a group of graduate students in a study entitled "Stakeholder Distrust as a Barrier to Health Information Exchange Participation". 

 

Dr. Tremblay is frequently invited as an expert panelist in the area of health informatics. She also serves an advisor on several committees including the Technical Advisory Panel for the Health Council of South Florida (HCSF) Miami Matters, and the steering committee (Workforce Development Sub-Committee) of the South Florida Regional Extension Center (SFREC). Additionally, Dr. Tremblay serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for the Healthcare technology and Dissemination Sciences Study Section of the Agency of Healthcare Quality (AHRQ), which is part of the National Institute of Health (NIH).

 

 

 

Associate Professor

Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems

College of Business Administration

Email: deckardg@fiu.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gloria Deckard is an Associate Professor and has been affiliated with health care management programs in both faculty and administrative roles for nearly 25 years.  In January 2010, she joined the Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems in order to a work with the faculty in developing a Master of Science degree in Health Informatics and Management Systems.  This degree proposal is currently under review by the Florida Board of Governors and will begin in the spring  semester in 2012.  Immediately prior to joining this Department, Dr. Deckard was Chair and Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health at Florida International University.

 

 

She has participated in several evaluation studies of community health care programs including the Miami-Dade County Evaluation of the Training and Implementation of Point of Care EHR Demonstration Project for the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), Evaluation of HealthConnect in our Community with the Urban Institute and Evaluation of Community Access Programs with the University of Florida and the Jackson Health Foundation.  Her efforts in these evaluations included the development, implementation and analysis of evaluation surveys, the identification of evaluation measures and both quantitative and qualitative analysis of data.