Prof. Ofir Ben-Assuli

Associate Dean for Research

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Prof. Ben-Assuli is an associate professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at Ono Academic College in the fields of Bio-Informatics, Data Mining, Health Analytics, Information Systems and Information Systems Policy; Business-technology consultant for management and operation of ‎technological systems. He is currently the chair of the Israel Association for Information Systems (ILAIS), A Chapter of the Association for Information Systems.
He has published, in well-established journals including:  MIS Quarterly, European Journal of Information Systems, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Health Policy, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making and the Journal of Medical Systems.
He serves at the Editorial Board Associate Editor at several journals and among them: Health Policy and Technology journal.
Prof. Ben-Assuli has been awarded several international and Israeli grants for his research. He received funding from the U.S. – Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), the German-Israeli Foundation (GIF), the National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research (NIHP), among others. Prof. Ben-Assuli has also been awarded several prizes for excellence in research and among them: the best paper of the year in Decision Sciences journal.
In the past, he developed Information Systems for MLL and worked in a variety of technological positions at the computer communications company Rad-Binat, among other positions.

Education

Ph.D

Medical Information Systems, Information Systems Department, Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv ‎University- 2011

M.B.A

magna cum laude, School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem- 2005

B.A

magna cum laude, in economics and computer science, Ben-Gurion University of the ‎Negev- 2002

Teaching Areas

Mathematics for Business Administration; Decision Support Systems; Data Mining, Decision-Making and Implementation in Information Systems and Information Systems Policy.

Research interests

Bio-Informatics, Data Mining in the Medical Arena, Econometrics, Health Analytics, Economics of Health, Medical Decision-Making, Information Systems Policy and Value of Information in the Decision-Making Process.

Selected Publications

Ben-Assuli, O., Padman, R., (2019, Accepted), Trajectories of Repeated Readmissions of Chronic Disease Patients: Risk Stratification, Profiling, and Prediction, MIS Quarterly.
Ben-Assuli, O., Vest. J., (2019, Accepted), Data Mining Techniques Utilizing Latent Class Models to Evaluate Emergency Department Revisits, Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Gefen, D., Ben-Assuli, O., Stehr, M., Rosen, ,B., Denekamp, Y., (2019, In Press), Governmental Intervention in Hospital Information Exchange (HIE) Diffusion: A Time-series Analysis Using the Bass Model, European Journal of Information Systems
Ben-Assuli, O., Kumar, N., Arazy O., Shabtai, I., (2019, In Press), The Use of Analytic Hierarchy Process for Measuring the Complexity of Medical Diagnosis, Health Informatics Journal
Ben-Assuli, O., Padman, R., Shabtai, I., (2019, In Press), Exploring Trajectories of Emergency Department Visits using a Laboratory-based Indicator of Serious Illness, Health Informatics Journal
Gefen, D., Miller, J.L., Ben-Assuli, O., Shlomo, N., Robertson, N., Klempfner, R., (2019, In Press), Applying Text Analysis to Identify Possible Adverse Drug Interactions: The Case of Adalat (Nifedipine), Health Informatics Journal
Vest, R.J., Ben-Assuli, O., (2019), Prediction of emergency department revisits using area-level social determinants of health measures and health information exchange information, International Journal of Medical Informatics, vol. 129, pp. 205-210
Ben-Assuli, O., Heart, T., Shlomo, N., Klempfner, R., (2019), Bringing Big Data Analytics Closer to Practice: a Methodological Explanation and Demonstration of Classification Algorithms, Health Policy and Technology, vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 7-13
Flaumenhaft, Y., AND Ben-Assuli, O., 2018, Personal Health Records, Global Policy and Regulation Review, Health Policy, vol. 122, pp. 815-826, .
Ben-Assuli, O., AND Padman, R., 2018, Analyzing Repeated Hospital Readmissions using Data Mining Techniques, Health Systems, vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 120-134.
Revels, S., Kumar, S., Ben-Assuli, O., (2017), "Predicting Obesity Rate and Obesity-Related Healthcare Costs using Data Analytics Health Policy and Technology", Health Policy and Technology, vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 198-207
Heart. T., Ben-Assuli, O., Shabtai, I., (2017), "A review of PHR, EMR and EHR integration: A more personalized healthcare and public health policy", Health Policy and Technology, vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 20-25
Lederman, R., Ben-Assuli, O., (2017), "Editorial: Patient-centered health information technology: Preparing for a new era", Health Policy and Technology, vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 1-2.
Ben-Assuli, O., Ziv. A., Sagi, D., Ironi, A., Leshno, M., (2016), "Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation of EHR: Simulation of an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in the Emergency Department", Journal of Medical Systems, vol. 40, Issue 6: 141, pp. 1-13.
Ben-Assuli, O., AND Leshno, M., (2015), “Assessing Electronic Health Record Systems in Emergency Departments: Using a Decision Analytic Bayesian Model”,Health Informatics Journal, vol. 22, Issue 3, pp. 712-729.
Ben-Assuli, O., Sagi, D., Leshno, M., Ironi, A., Ziv. A., (2015), “Improving Diagnostic Accuracy Using EHR in Emergency Departments: A Simulation-Based Study”, The Journal of Biomedical Informatics, vol. 55, pp. 31-40.
Ben-Assuli, O., (2015), "Electronic health records, adoption, quality of care, legal and privacy issues and their implementation in emergency departments", Health Policy, vol. 119, Issue 3, pp. 287-297.
Ben-Assuli, O., Shabtai, I., AND Leshno, M., (2015), “Using Electronic Health Record Systems to Optimize Admission Decisions: The Creatinine Case Study”, Health Informatics Journal, vol. 21, Issue 1, pp. 73-88.
Ben-Assuli, O., Shabtai, I., Leshno, M., Hill, S., (2014), "EHR in Emergency Rooms: Exploring the Effect of Key Information Components on Main Complaints",Journal of Medical Systems, vol. 38, Issue 4, pp. 1-8.
Ben-Assuli, O., Leshno, M., (2013), "Using Electronic Medical Records in Admission Decisions: A Cost Effectiveness Analysis", Decision Sciences, vol. 44, Issue 3, pp. 463 – 481 (Best Paper of the Year!).
Ben-Assuli, O., Shabtai, I., AND Leshno, M., (2013), "The impact of EHR and HIE on reducing avoidable admissions: controlling main differential diagnoses", BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, vol. 13 (49).
Ben-Assuli, O. (2012), "Assessing the Perception of Information Components in Financial Decision Support Systems", Decision Support Systems, vol. 54, Issue 1, pp. 795-802.
Ben-Assuli, O., Leshno, M., and Shabtai, I., (2012), “Using Electronic Medical Record Systems for Admission Decisions in Emergency Departments: Examining the Crowdedness Effect”, Journal of Medical Systems, vol. 36, Issue 6, pp. 3795-3803.

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