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Diane M. Strong
Diane M. Strong
Foisie Business School
Professor & Interim Dept Head
Affiliated with: 
Data Science
Management Information Systems
Education: 
BS University of South Dakota 1974
MS New Jersey Institute of Technology 1978
MS Carnegie Mellon University 1983
PhD Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University 1988

WPI provides an environment that values both teaching and research, which is ideal for me. I enjoy teaching at WPI because students are interested in learning and willing to work hard. My teaching focuses on how business, healthcare, and nonprofit organizations can best use computing technologies, such as database systems, electronic health records systems, and mobile apps. Students in my classes learn to design computing applications that meet the needs of organizations. Students understand the value of learning these topics, and as a result, they work hard to learn the principles and how to apply them to real organizational problems.

I also enjoy working closely with student teams on their MQP and IQP projects, which I help them set up in sponsoring organizations. For example, one of my IQP teams developed a multilingual website for the Family Health Center of Worcester. One of my MQP teams developed a prototype dashboard for executives at The Hanover Group to help them monitor progress of computer application development projects. Another MQP team did a data analytics project for a healthcare organization that examined its physician-patient communication patterns on the patient portal. These projects involve students in finding solutions to current problems in organizations, and they keep me up-to-date with the computing concerns of organizations.

My research program supports my teaching interests. I work with organizations to help them determine how best to use computing technologies. With funding from the National Science Foundation, I and an interdisciplinary team of researchers studied of how healthcare providers can use electronic health records systems to improve the quality of, and access to healthcare, while also reducing costs. Another NSF funded project is developing a diabetes support app. The executives I meet through my research often come to WPI to talk in student classes. My students have the most recent information about how computing technologies are being used in organizations because I integrate the knowledge gained from my research into my teaching.

Office Location
Washburn Shops 219
Contact
Phone: 
+1-508-831-5573
dstrong@wpi.edu
Personal Website
Lab website
Healthcare Delivery Institute (HDI)
Diabetes App Project

Research Interests

Research Interests: 
Healthcare Information Systems and Technologies
Enterprise Systems, and their use in organizations
Data and Information Quality, Data Analytics
Affordances and Critical Realism
Task-Technology Fit, including misfits and work-arounds

Scholarly Work

Ten Potholes in the Road to Information Quality - 1997
Manage Your Information as a Product - 1998
Perceived Critical Mass Effect on Groupware Acceptance: A Revised Technology Acceptance Model - 2000
AMCIS 2002 Panels and Workshops I: Human-Computer Interaction Research in the MIS Discipline - 2002
A Framework for Evaluating ERP Implementation Choices - 2004
The AMCIS 2003 Panels on IS Education-II. The Chicken and the Egg Debate: Positioning Database Content in the Information Systems Curriculum - 2004
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Professional Highlights & Honors

Professional Highlights & Honors: 
WPI Trustees Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship
Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Society
Beta Gamma Sigma Business and Management Honor Society
Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor Society
Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society
Phi Beta Kappa

News

Researchers Creating App to Track, Analyze Dangerous Chronic Wounds
February 21, 2018
More than 1,000 Undergraduates Take the Stage at 149th Commencement
May 15, 2017
Management Information Systems Pioneer Diane Strong Receives WPI's 2017 Chairman's Exemplary Faculty Prize
May 13, 2017
Digging Deep to Improve Healthcare
February 23, 2017
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In the News

WPI granted $1.6M to develop wound-care app

The Worcester Business Journal reported on work funded by a $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new smartphone app to monitor chronic wounds. The work is led by Emmanuel Agu, associate professor of computer science and coordinator of WPI’s Mobile Graphics Research Group, with co-principal investigators professor Diane Strong and associate professor Bengisu Tulu, both of the Foisie Business School, and Peder Pedersen, a retired professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Worcester Business Journal

Patents

Sugar: A Revolutionary Diabetes Application
Other Inventor(s):
Bengisu Tulu, Emmanuel O. Agu, Peder C. Pedersen, Lei Wang, Qian He
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