Radha Mahapatra

[Radha Mahapatra]

Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management

Last Updated: September 22, 2021

about me

Research Interests

Healthcare Information Systems
ICT for Development (ICT4D)
Reducing Health Disparities by using mobile technologies
Software Development Methodologies
Agile Project Management
Data Quality

Teaching Interests

Data Warehousing & BI
Healthcare Information Systems
IT Management

Biography

Radha Mahapatra earned a BS in Electrical Engineering, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in Information Systems. He teaches data warehousing & Business Intelligence, healthcare IS, and IT Management. His research interests include reducing health disparities, healthcare IS, ICT for development, agile software development processes, and data quality. He is passionate about using IT to improve the conditions of marginalized populations around the world. His research publications have appeared in various journals including MIS Quarterly, Journal of AIS, and Communications of the ACM. He is currently Chair of Information Systems and Operations Management Department.

Education

- 1994 PhD in Management Information Systems
  Texas A&M University College Station
- 1986 MBA in Business Administration
  Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- 1983 BS in Electrical Engineering
  National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India

Memberships

- Aug 1994 to Present Association for Information Systems
  Founding member, Conference Organizer

Awards and Honors

- 2010 2009-10 Distinguished Research Publication Award sponsored by UTA College of Business
- 2005 2004-05 Distingusihed Professional Publication Award sponsored by UTA College of Business
- 2002 2001 Distinguished Research Publication Award sponsored by UTA College of Business
- 2000 Faculty Member of the Year Award 2000 sponsored by UTA AITP Student Chapter

News Articles

- Sept 2017 Equities
  Telemedicine
- Sept 2017 Health Medicine Network
  Telemedicine
- Sept 2017 Pharmacy Choice
  Telemedicine
- Sept 2017 UPI (United Press International)
  Telemedicine
- Aug 2017 The New Indian Express
  Telemedicine to improve healthcare
- Mar 2014
  e! Science News
  
  Two UT Arlington College of Business professors have written a paper that claims the success of having software programmers work in pairs greatly depends on the ability level of those individual programmers, e! Science News, ECN and Only Software Blog reported. The paper also concluded that using design patterns can greatly improve the quality of software programs and the productivity of programmers. Radha Mahapatra and Sridhar Nerur, professor and associate professor in the Information Systems and Operations Management Department of the College of Business, published the paper on software programming aids in MIS Quarterly this month
- Mar 2014 Phys.org
  Two UT Arlington information systems professors prove correct pairing of computer programmers can lead to much more successful programming, Phys.org, Science Codex, Science Daily and several other websites reported. Professor Radha Mahapatra and Associate Professor Sridhar Nerur, both in the UT Arlington Information Systems and Operations Management Department of the College of Business, recently published “Distributed Cognition in Software Design: An Experimental Investigation of the Role of Design Patterns and Collaboration” in the prestigious MIS Quarterly. The paper also said use of design patterns can greatly improve the success of software programming.

Support & Funding

This data is entered manually by the author of the profile and may duplicate data in the Sponsored Projects section.

- May 2020 to Dec 2021 Improving Diabetes Management among Medically Underserved Populations through the Use of Mobile Technologies sponsored by UTA College of Business - $10000
  Radha Mahapatra (Funded)
- Sept 2017 to Aug 2018 Reducing Health Disparities Among Minority Patients – Using Mobile Technologies to Improve Diabetes Care Management sponsored by Research Enhancement Program Grant, Office of Research - $15000
  (Funded)
- June 2017 to Aug 2018 Reducing Health Disparities Among Minority Patients - Using Mobile Technologies to Improve Diabetes Care Management sponsored by University of Texas at Arlington - $15000
  (Funded)
- Sept 2016 to Aug 2017 Advancing Big Data Analytics Through High-Performance Computing sponsored by State Farm - $40000
  (Funded)

Publications

2017

Book Chapter
Influence of Technology Affordance on the Adoption of Mobile Technologies for Diabetes Self-management
[Dantu, Ramakrishna, Mahapatra, Radha, Wang, Jingguo]. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE. 10347, "Springer".

In Process

Journal Article
Impact of Health Information Quality on Care Delivery - A Provider Perspective
[Manzar, Rashid, Mahapatra, Radha, Wang, Jingguo, Bhadauria, Vikram]. Journal of Management Information Systems : JMIS. In Preparation; Not Yet Submitted.

Journal Article
Information and Communication Technologies for Development: Curating Key Research Themes Using Text Mining
[Bhadauria, Vikram, Mahapatra, RadhaKanta , Nerur, Sridhar]. Communications of the AIS (Association for Information Systems). Submitted.

2020

Journal Article
Performance Outcomes of Test Driven Development - An Experimental Investigation
[Vikram, Bhadauria, Mahapatra, Radha, Nerur, SridharP]. Journal of the Association of Information Systems.

2019

Journal Article
User Engagement in the Era of Hybrid Agile Methodology
[Schmitz, Kurt, Mahapatra, Radha, Nerur, Sridhar]. IEEE Software.

2015

Journal Article
Adoption and Use of Open Source Software by Large Corporations: The Case of MySQL
[Mahapatra, Radha, Manzar, Rashid, Bhadauria, Vikram]. Journal of Database Management. 26(4), 17.

Journal Article
Task Mental Models and Software Developer’s Performance: An Experimental Investigation
[Balijepally, Venu, Nerur, SridharP, Mahapatra, Radha]. Communications of the AIS (Association for Information Systems). 36(4),
http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol36/iss1/4

2014

Journal Article
Distributed Cognition in Software Design – An Experimental Investigation of the Role of Design Patterns and Collaboration
[Mangalaraj, G., Nerur, SridharP, Mahapatra, Radha, Price, K. ]. MIS Quarterly. 38(1),
http://aisel.aisnet.org/misq/vol38/iss1/14/

2001

Journal Article
Business data mining–a machine learning perspective
[Bose, Indranil, Mahapatra, Radha]. 39(3), 211. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-7206(01)00091-X

1998

Journal Article
Evaluation of intranets in a distributed environment
[Lai, VincentS., Mahapatra, Radha]. Decision Support Systems. 23(4), 347. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0167-9236(98)00064-5

1997

Journal Article
Exploring the research in information technology implementation
[Lai, VincentS., Mahapatra, Radha]. 32(4), 187. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-7206(97)00022-0

2020

Conference Proceeding
An mHealth Application to Promote Diabetes Self-care Behavior among Medically Underserved Population
[Murad, Mohammad, Mahapatra, Radha, Dantu, Ramakrishna, Alenius, Matthew]. Proceedings of AMCIS 2020. "Association for Information Systems ".

2019

Conference Proceeding
Diabetes Self-care Management using Mobile Applications among Medically Underserved Population
[Dantu, Ramakrishna, Murad, Mohammad, Mahapatra, Radha]. AMCIS Proceedings. "AIS".

2018

Conference Proceeding
ICT4D: Exploring Emergent Themes
[Bhadauria, Vikram, Mahapatra, Radha, Nerur, Sridhar]. AMCIS 2018. "Association for Information Systems".

Conference Proceeding
Mobile Health Privacy Concerns – A Systematic Review
[Koffi, Bouabre, Yazdanmehr, Adel, Mahapatra, Radha]. "Association for Information Systems".

2017

Conference Proceeding
A Collaborative Approach to Creating ICT-based Sustainable Development
[Mahapatra, Radha, Sahoo, Sahadev]. "Americas Conference on Information Systems".

Conference Proceeding
Mobile Clinical Decision Support Systems – A Systematic Review
[Dwivedi, Rahul, Ghahramani, Fereshteh, Mahapatra, Radha]. "Americas Conference on Information Systems".

2016

Conference Proceeding
Adoption of Mobile Technologies in Diabetes Self-Management: An Affordance Perspective
[Dantu, Ramakrishna, Mahapatra, Radha, Wang, Jingguo]. "Decision Sciences Institute".

Conference Proceeding
Sustainable Healthcare Solutions for the Rural Poor in Developing Economies
[Mahapatra, Radha, Sahoo, Sahadev]. "Decision Sciences Institute".

Conference Proceeding
Assessing the Effectiveness of Mobile Technologies for Diabetes Self-Management
[Dantu, Ramakrishna, Mahapatra, Radha, Wang, Jingguo]. "Americas Conference on Information Systems".

2015

Conference Proceeding
Locus of Fluctuations – An Examination of Project Disruptions
[Schmitz, Kurt W , Mahapatra, Radha, Nerur, SridharP]. "International Reserach Workshop on IT Project Management".

Conference Proceeding
e-Mahtari – Improving Maternal Healthcare in Rural India through ICT
[Mahapatra, Radha, RadhaRani, Sahoo]. "Americas Conference on Information Systems".

2014

Conference Proceeding
Social Media Use in Physician-Patient Interaction – A Fit Perspective
[Dantu, Ramakrishna, Wang, Jingguo, Mahapatra, Radha]. "Americas Conference on Information Systems".

Presentations

- November 2016
  Dantu, Ramakrishna, Mahapatra, Radha, Wang, Jingguo, , "Adoption of Mobile Technologies in Diabetes Self-Management: An Affordance Perspective". (November 19, 2016).
- November 2016
  Mahapatra, Radha, Sahoo, Sahadeva, "Sustainable Healthcare Solutions for teh Rural Poor in Developing Economies". (November 19, 2016).
- December 2015
  Nerur, Sridhar (Author), Mahapatra, Radha (Author), "Locus of Fluctuations: an Examination of Project Disruptions", Fort Worth, TX. (December 12, 2015).
- August 2014
  Mahapatra, Radha, Dantu, Ramakrishna, Wang, Jingguo, "Social Media Use in Physician-Patient Interaction – A Fit Perspective", AMCIS , Savannah, GA. (August , 2014).
- August 2013
  Mahapatra, Radha, Dantu, Ramakrishna, "Adoption of Telemedicine – Challenges and Opportunities", AMCIS , Chicago, IL. (August , 2013).
- January 2012
  Mahapatra, Radha, Nerur, SridharP, Balijepally, V., "Effect of Task Mental Models on Software Developer’s Performance – An Experimental Investigation", 45th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Maui, HI. (January , 2012).
- November 2010
  Mahapatra, Radha, Nerur, SridharP, Balijepally, V., "Are Two Heads Better than One in Software Development – Experiments in Paired Development", INFORMS , Austin, TX. (November , 2010).

Students Supervised

- May 2017
  Dissertation Committee Co-Chair
  Rashid Manzar,
  A Study of the Impact of Health Information Quality on Care Delivery Quality and Satisfaction from the Care Provider’s Perspective
- Aug 2016
  Dissertation Committee Chair
  Raghu Raman,
  Appearance vs. Reality – Dashboards on Mobile Devices, an Experimental Study
- Aug 2016
  Dissertation Committee Co-Chair
  Ramakrishna Dantu,
  Role of Mobile Technologies in Diabetes Self-Management: Technology Affordance Perspective
- Aug 2016
  Dissertation Committee Co-Chair
  Lulu Zhang,
  Effects of Diagrammatic Representation on Software Evolution Programming Performance – An Experimental Investigation Using UML Diagrams, ABD
- Aug 2015
  Dissertation Committee Member
  Indika Dissanayake,
  Understanding and Exploiting Contestants’ Characteristics and Behaviors in Crowdsourcing Contests
- Dec 2013
  Dissertation Committee Co-Chair
  Kurt Schmitz,
  Disruption of Information Technology Projects: The Reactive Decoupling of Project Management Methodologies

Courses

Service to the University

- June 2018 to Present Committee Member
  
  Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
- Aug 2003 to Sept 2018 Committee Member
  
  CoB Ph.D. Graduate Studies Committee
- Aug 2003 to Sept 2018 Faculty Advisor
  
  IS Ph.D. program
- Aug 2015 to Aug 2018 Chairperson
  
  COB P&T Committee
- Aug 2014 to Aug 2018 Chairperson
  
  ISOM P&T Committee
- Sept 2004 to Aug 2018 Committee Member
  
  Promotion & Tenure Committee, INSY Department
- May 2017 to Dec 2017 Chairperson
  
  ISOM Faculty Search Committee
- Aug 2014 to Apr 2015 Committee Member
  
  ISOM Faculty Search Committee
- 2008 to 2013 Chairperson
  
  INSY Assurance of Learning Committee

Service to the Profession

- Oct 2019 to Feb 2020
  Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer
  IEEE
  Reviewed manuscript submitted to IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

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Radha Mahapatra

[Radha Mahapatra]

Research Interests

Research Interests

Teaching Interests

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Biography

Biography

Education

Education

Memberships

Awards and Honors

News Articles

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Support & Funding

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Publications

Presentations

Students Supervised

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Service to the University

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