Nilmini Sunethra Wickramasinghe

Goal: To be a valuable contributing member of an energetic academic institution in the pursuit of excellence in research, teaching and service.

Dr. Nilmini Wickramasinghe researches and teaches in several areas within Information Systems including IT for competitive advantage, knowledge management, e-commerce and m-commerce and organizational impacts of technology. In addition, Dr Wickramasinghe specializes in the impacts of technologies on the healthcare industry and various aspects of medical informatics. She is well published in all these areas having written books, numerous refereed scholarly papers and encyclopedia entries. Dr Wickramasinghe regularly presents her work throughout North America as well as in Europe and Australiasia. Currently, Dr Wickramasinghe is the US representative of the Health Care Technology Management Association (HCTM), an international organization that focuses on critical healthcare issues and the role of technology within the domain of healthcare, the associate director of the Center for Management Medical Technology (CMMT) at Illinois Institute of Technology, a center for research, education, outreach and dissemination of leading edge issues in the area of healthcare management and holds an associate professor position at the Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Academic Details : Graduate(August 1995-April 1999) Ph.D.

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Ph.D. at Weatherhead School of Management in Management of Infor­mation and Decision Systems (MIDS dept) with concentration in Healthcare issues. I received full funding to complete my Ph.D. studies at CWRU.

Thesis Title: IS/IT as a Tool to Achieve Goal Alignment in the Context of the Knowledge Worker in the Health Care Industry

Advisor/chair: Michael Ginzberg Dean & Chaplin Tyler Professor of Business, College of Business, University of Delaware

Minor advisor: J. B. Silvers Professor of Banking and Finance
Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professor of Management
Associate Dean for Resource Management and Planning
Director of Research, Health Systems Management Program Case Western Reserve University.

Graduate (March 1994 - July 1995) MBA

MBA at Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne, Australia. The major focus was Technology Management and MIS (Management of Information Systems) issues.

Graduate (July 1992 - July 1993) GradDipMgSt.

Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies at
Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne,
Australia.

Tertiary education (March 1988 - July 1992) BSc

Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia Bachelor of Science combined major in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Other Qualifications

SAP Certification from SAP 2003 for the fundamentals of SAP

A.mus.A ( Associate Music Australia ) violin performance

A.mus.A ( Associate Music Australia) piano performance

Obtained from the Australian Music Examination board in conjunction with The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Language Skills

Knowledge of: French, German, Dutch, Japanese, Latin and Sinhala.

Secondary School (1980 - 1987)

Lauriston Girls' School -graduated in 1987; 7 subjects were taken for HSC/VCE: Chemistry, English, Mathematics A, Mathematics B, Music A, Music B, and Physics.

Work History: September 2005 - :Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for the Management of Medical Technologies Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology.

29th December 2000 to August 2005: Assistant Professor Computer & Information Science. James J Nance College of Business Administration Cleveland State University. CSU has several joint programs with large organizations such as NASA Glen, FBI and Cleveland Clinic Foundation in which I have been involved. Teaching: graduates and undergraduates in the areas of IT for Competitive Advantage, e-Commerce and Knowledge Management. Also teaching e-commerce for the MBA program at the Cleveland Clinic. In addition, I teach the joint program in Germany at die Berufsakademie, Heidenheim in e-business and have developed a new program in Healthcare. Research: actively conducting research in e-commerce and knowledge management and in particular how these areas impact the US healthcare environment and the healthcare environment globally. Other areas of research include m-commerce, ERP and the impacts of technology on both strategy and an organizations human infrastructure. Service: active in numerous capacities including but not limited to reviewing, organizing conferences and mini tracks and presenting at numerous forums both nationally and internationally.

1st September 2000 to 29th January 2001: Senior Lecturer in Management Information Systems at The University of Melbourne, Department of Accounting and Business Systems, School of Economics & Commerce. As well as my regular lecturing (both undergraduate and graduate students) and research activities, I designed and developed new courses in: 1) Knowledge Management Systems and 2) E-commerce.

June 1st 1999-September 1st 2000: Lecturer in Management Information Systems at The University of Melbourne, Department of Accounting and Business Systems, School of Economics & Commerce.

Jan 1996 to May 1999: Research associate for Prof J.B. Silvers, Health Systems Management Centre, Weatherhead School of Management, CWRU – primarily working on Value Project which traced the changes in value to various areas in the Health Care industry in an at­tempt to understand the full impact of managed care. This project was funded by a $245,778 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition, I was attending the Steering Committee meetings for the implementation of 2 major information systems at University Hospitals, Cleveland.

Jan 1999 to May 1999:Co-Instructor MBAC 423 Stream I, II, III - three core MBA courses on Technology, Design and Management. The special feature of this course is that it was a totally wired course. The first of its kind to be introduced at CWRU.

Aug 1998 to Dec 1998: Teaching Assistant MGMT 462-a MBA class taught in Budapest, Hungary where CWRU has a joint Interna­tional Management

Program. This course concerned issues per­taining to Technology and Science

Jan 1997 to Dec 1998: Teaching MIDS 309 - an undergraduate course designed by myself to introduce students to various aspects of IT (information technology). In particular, the focus is on competitive issues, organisational issues, ethical issues, and management issues of IT.

Aug 1995-Dec 1995: Teaching assistant for MBA classes at Weatherhead School of Management, CWRU.

Dec 1994 - Feb 1995: Worked at Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne directly with Professor Peter Weill (now at Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Director of CISR, Sloan Senior Research Scientist Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) on the IBM Infrastructure Research Project as the research consultant. This project was a major international study. At the end of this period the unpublished docu­ment I produced, synthesised findings from the literature on strategy and how various compa­nies conveyed strategic intent, formed the foundation for the project and enabled hy­potheses to be generated which led to several other research projects that served to extend and augment several aspects of these findings. It also contributed to the book "Leveraging The New Infrastructure: How market leaders capitalize on information technology” by Weill & Braodbent, published by Harvard Business School Press in May1998 and is now in its third printing.

Research Interests: 1) Information systems/information technology management – espe­cially issues with respect to strategy, change management and impact of technology on organizations

2) Healthcare and information systems/information technol­ogy/information management/knowledge management

3) Information systems/information technology and the knowledge worker, knowledge management and knowledge management systems

4)Integration of ERP and E-Commerce and the role for Knowledge Management

5)e-business and mobile business

Teaching Interests: 1) Healthcare Management especially Information systems issues including knowledge management, e-commerce and ERP systems

2) Medical Informatics

3) Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems

4) E-commerce

5) MIS and IT for Competitive Advantage

6) Organisational impacts of technology

Hobbies/Interests: Music - played in several orchestras including The University of Melbourne Conservatorium Orchestra, leader of

School orchestra and String ensembles as well as having been solo instrumentalist on several occasions.

Other - learning Japanese, Dutch and Finnish, dog obedience training, or­nithology- breeding zebra finches, philately, gardening, badminton, playing chess and completing cross-stitch needle point.

Associations: Member of -

1. Health Care Technology Management Association (HCTM) – founding board member representing the US.

2. Founding member of SIG Health at AMICS

3. Member of the IAADS (International Academy of Advanced Decision Support)

4. Member of Healthcare Information Management Systems Science (HIMSS)

5. Member of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

6. Member of the Information Integrity Coalition

7. Editorial Board Member for Int. J. Electronic Health (IJEH)

8. Editorial Board Member for Int. J. Services and Standards (IJSS)

9. Program Committee member ICECR

10. Organising Committee for IFIP TC 8

11. Organising Committee for ECIAR 2000-2004

12. Organising Committee for The Hospital of the Future Conference Jly 2002, Chicago IL

13. Reviewer for Health Care Management Science (HCMS)

14. Reviewer for Decision Sciences Journal

15. Guest reviewer for Encyclopaedia of Information Systems, Academic Press, 2002

16. Ad hoc reviewer for Prentice Hall, McGrawHill

17. Ad hoc reviewer for the Communications for the ACM, GITMA, J. Org Comp & E-com, JAIS, HICSS, Bled Electronic Commence Conference, AMCIS, AIS, AoM

18. Ad hoc Reviewer for Idea Group Inc. publications

19. Associate Editor for ACIS 2000,2001,2002

20. Asia Pacific IS Representative for University of Melb. 1999, 2000

21. Invited member of INET and ITAC colloquium to focus on developing an appropriate m-health architecture and infrastructure.

22. Member of CSU biomedical and Health Institute (BAHI)

23. Alumni of Case Western Reserve University, Ohio , USA

24. The University of Melbourne Alumni Association.

25. Member of Internet Chess Club

University Committees:

2003-2004 College of Business Representative for University Space Committee

2002-2006 Department representative for College DBA Committee

2001-2003 Member of Departments hiring/search committee

2002-2004 Member of Departments curriculum revision committee

2002-2004 Member of college DBA special focus action group

2003 Department committee member for NEOSA student chapter

Publications: Refereed Journals [1][2][3][4]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2005 “A Framework for Designing the Enterprise-wide E-Commerce Portal for Evolving Organizations” with S. Sharma and J Gupta in press Electronic Commerce Journal.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2005 Creating Germane Knowledge In Dynamic Environments” with D. von Lubitz Intl. J. Innovation and Learning (IJIL)

Wickramasinghe, N. 2005 “Supporting Knowledge Creation With E-Mail” with S. Lichtenstein forthcoming Int. J. Innovation and Learning [*]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2005 “an assessment and Strategic Guidelines for e-commerce in the Asia-Pacific Region” with R. Scherer, R. Javalagi and S. Sharma in press Int. J of Management

Wickramasinghe, N. 2005 “Realizing The value Proposition for Healthcare By Incorporating KM strategies and Data Mining Techniques with the use of information communication technologies" with E. Geisler and J. Schaffer. In press Int. J. Healthcare Technology and Management

Wickramasinghe, N. 2005 “Knowledge Creation: A meta-Framework” in press International J. Innovation and Learning [*]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2005 “Key Considerations for Ensuring High Quality HIPAA Compliant e-health” with S. Sharma in International J. Services and Standards (IJSS) vol 1 no. 3 pp. 319-335.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “A Wireless Trust Model for Healthcare” with S. Misra Int. J. e-Health (IJEH) vol1. no.1 pp. 60-77.[*]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “Building systems around Revers Value Chain – A New System Development Approach” with S. Sharma and M. Singh in press Int. J. of Management and Enterprise Development (IJMED). [*]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “An Integrative Framework for HIPAA-Compliant I*IQ Healthcare Information Systems” with A. Fadlalla International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance vol 17. no. 2 pp. 65-74.[%]

Wickramasinghe, N 2004 “A Framework for Building A Learning Organization in the 21st Century” with S.Sharma forthcoming in International Journal of Innovation and Learning (IJIL). [*]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004"Key Factors That Hinder SMEs in Succeeding in Today's Knowledge Based Economy" International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development (IJMED) with S. Sharma and N. Ahmed vol 2 no 3. pp. 221-240. [*]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “Enabling Innovative Healthcare Delivery Through the Use of the Focused Factory Model: The Case of the Spine Clinic of the Future” with Bloomendal, H., A. de Bruin and K. Krabbendam in International Journal of Innovation and Learning (IJIL). Vol 2 no. 1 pp.90-110[*]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 "How M = EC2 in Healthcare" with S. Goldberg International Journal of Mobile Communications (IJMC) vol 2. no. 2 pp140-156.[*]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “e-commerce adoption in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Asia: a study of the early stages of e-commerce uptake” in Int. J. Internet and Enterprise Management with S. Sharma and N. Ahmed vol 2 no. 3 pp 221-240.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “A Framework For Assessing E-Health Preparedness” with A. Fadlalla, E. Geisler, and J. Schaffer. Americas Conference on Information Systems in press International J. Electronic Healthcare (IJEH)

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004“Making Explicit the Implicit Knowledge Assets in Healthcare” with G. Davison Health Care Management Science. Vol 7. no. 3 Aug pp. 185-196[*]

Wikramasinghe, N. 2004 "A Standardized Mobile Internet (Wireless) Environment For Mobilizing Healthcare” with S. Sharma and S. Goldberg

International Journal Healthcare Technology and Management Issue1/2 vol 6 pp 232-249. [*]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2003 “Security of a Mobile Transaction: a Trust Model” with S. Misra in Electronic Commerce Research Journal vol 4 no 4 pp. 359-372[%]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2002 “Managing Managed Care: the enabling role of IS/IT” R. Lamb Journal of Management in Medicine. Vol. 16 No. 2/3 pp.238-250[%]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2003 "IS/IT The Prescription To Enable Medical Group Practices To Manage Managed Care" with J.B. Silvers Health Care Management Science vol. 6 no 2 pp-75-86[*]

Wickramasinghe, N 2003" Do We Practise What We Preach: Are Knowledge Management Systems in Practice Truly Reflective of Knowledge Management Systems in Theory?" Business Process Management Journal vol. 9 no. 3 pp.295-316. [*]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2002 "Enterprise-wide systems enabling physicians to manage care", with R. Lamb International Journal Healthcare Technology and Management vol 4 Nos. 3/4 pp.288-302. [*]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2002 "Integrating e-commerce and knowledge management - What does the Kaiser experience really tell us" with G. Mills International Journal of Accounting Information Systems., vol 3. Issue 2. pp 83-98. [*]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2001 " Integrating Knowledge Workers and the Organization: The Role of IT” with M.Ginzberg in International Journal Healthcare Quality Assurance, vol 14, no 6 and 7, pp 245-253. [*]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2001 "MARS: The Electronic Medical Record System The Core of the Kaiser Galaxy" with G. Mills International Journal Healthcare Technology Management, vol. 3 nos 5/6 pp.406-423[*]

Wickramasinghe, N. 2000 ‘IS/IT as a Tool to Achieve Goal Alignment : a theoretical framework’ International J. HealthCare Technology Management Vol2. No. 1/2/3/4/, pp.163-180. [*]

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Wickramasinghe N, in press, “Networkcentric Healthcare: Entering the Network”, with D. von Lubitz in Proceedings IPSI Conference on E-business, Education, and Healthcare (Ed. V. Milutinovic), Svety Stefan, Montenegroress, Networkcentric Healthcare: Entering the Network, in Proceedings IPSI Conference on E-business, Education, and Healthc, October 2005

Wickramasinghe, N. 2005 “A Framework for Delivering m-health excellence” with S. Goldberg 18th Bled e-commerce conference proceedings.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2005 “Cutting Through the Gordian Knot of Inefficient Healthcare Processes with the IC” with J. Schaffer IRMA conference San Diego conference proceedings.

Wickramasinghe,N. 2004 “A Framework For Assessing E-Health PRepardeness” with A. Fadlalla, E. Geisler, and J. Shcaffer. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) Aug 5-8 CD-ROM. This paper was nominated for Best Paper

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “e-health a Global Phenomenon” with D. Vogel, N. Al-Qirim, and F. Hampe. 17th Bled e-commerce Conference, Slovenia June 21-23. CD-ROM.

Wickramasinghe, N 2004 “How M=EC2 in Healthcare” with S. Goldberg Int. Conference on Information Technology (ITCC) 5-7 Las Vegas pp. 252-257.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 " The KM Infrastructure: Making Implicit Knowledge Assets Explicit" with S.Sharma and A. Fadlalla. Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37) January 5-9, 2004, Hawaii (CD-ROM), Copyright 2004 by the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).

Wickramasinghe, N.2003 “Measuring Socio-economic Effects of E-Commerce – A Study” with S. Sharma, C. Chen and S. Misra International Conference on E-Commerce Research (ICECR) CD-ROM, Nov 2003.

Wickramasinghe, N 2003 “Knowledge Management and Data Mining: Strategic Imperatives for Healthcare” with A. Fadlalla, E. Geisler & J. Schaffer 3rd Hospital Of the Future Conference at Warwick, U.K.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2003 “Making explicit the implicit knowledge assets in healthcare: the case of multidisciplinary teams in care and cure environments” with G. Davison AMCIS 4th-6th Aug.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2003 “The Adoption of New Technology” Academy of Management Aug. with S. Perlusz and U. Gattiker. This paper won Best Paper

Wickramasinghe, N. 2003 “The wireless the panacea for healthcare” with S. Goldberg . Proceedings of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-35) January 6-10, 2003, Hawaii (CD-ROM), Copyright 2002 by the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).

Wickramasinghe, N.2002 ” A Framework To Assess The Feasibility And Sustainability Of Electronic Business Models “ with S. Sharma & S. Misra forthcoming at the 5th ICECR conference Montreal Oct.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2002 “Mobilizing Healthcare” with S. Goldberg Proceedings of the 5th ICECR conference Montreal Oct.

Wickramasinghe N. 2002 "Mobilizing Health Care" with S. Goldberg appears in the proceedings of the 2nd Hospital of the Future Conference Chicago 27-29 July.

Wickramasinghe N. 2002 "Actions Speak Louder Than Words: how we propose to care for your spine" with H. Bloemendal, A. de Bruin & K. Krabbendam appears in the proceedings of the 2nd Hospital of the Future Conference Chicago 27-29 July.

Wickramasinghe, N 2002 "Why India is not positioned well in e-commerce Race?" with S. Sharma & F. Kitchens appears in proceedings of GITM 2002 World Conference.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2002 "e-knowledge in Healthcare: a Strategic Imperative" Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-35) January 8-11, 2002, Hawaii (CD-ROM),

Copyright 2002 by the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).

Wickramasinghe, N. 2002 "Practising What We Preach: Are Knowledge Management Systems in Practice Really Knowledge Management Systems?" Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-35) January 8-11, 2002 Maui, Hawaii (CD-ROM), Copyright 2002 by the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).

Wickramasinghe, N 2001 "m-commerce the mobile vision of e-commerce" IFIP TC 8 Conference Salzburg 22-23 June.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2001 'Knowledge Management Systems: A Health Care Initiative With Lessons For Us All' with G. Mills in the proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Information Systems Bled Slovinia, June 27-29. pp. 763-774.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2001‘The occurrence of self-monitoring in the medical group practice’ with R. Lamb in Management of Healthcare and Medical Technology Conference Proceedings Enschede, The Netherlands 22-24 April.

Wickramasinghe, N 2001 "The Hidden & The Manifest: Unravelling The Mystique of Knowledge Management Systems", University of Leicester, UK Managing Knowledge Conference 10-11 April.

Wickramasinghe, N “IS/IT Enabling Medical Group Practices In A Managed Care Environment” with J.B. Silvers in the Proceedings of the 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-34) January 3-6, 2001 Maui, Hawaii (CD-ROM), Copyright 2001 by the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).

Wickramasinghe, N. 2000 “Integrating ERP with E-commerce: The Challenges and the Importance” with A. Fairchild, D. McCubbery Denver & A. Ragowsky in the 13th Bled E-commerce Proceedings.

Book Chapters:

Wickramasinghe, N. in press “Healthcare Network Centric Operations:

Key Policy Implications for Governments and Regulators” with D. von Lubitz

For Global E-Government: Theory, Applications and Benchmarking”

edited by Dr. Latif Al-Hakim and Dr. Khalid S. Soliman to be published in
2006.

Wickramasinghe, N. in press “M-health: A New Paradigm for Mobilizing Healthcare Delivery” with S. Goldberg For Web-mobile-based Applications for Healthcare Management”edited by Dr. Latif Al-Hakim and Dr. Khalid S. Soliman to be published in 2006.

Wickramasinghe, N., E. Geisler, and J. Schaffer 2005 “Assessing e-Health” forthcoming in Spiel and Schuring Eds E-Health Systems Diffusion and Use: The Innovation, the User and the USE IT model, Idea Group, Hershey.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “M-Health: A New Paradigm For Mobilzing Healthcare Delivery” with S. Goldberg in S. Barnes Eds Unwired Businesses : Cases in Mobile Business, Idea Group, Hershey.

Wickramasinghe, N 2004 “Knowledge Management in Healthcare” with Sushil K. Sharma, Jatinder N.D. Gupta pp.1-13 in Wickramasinghe et al Eds Creating Knowledge Based Healthcare Organizations Idea Group Inc. Hershey.

Wickramasinghe, N 2004 “E-health with Knowledge Management” with Sushil K. Sharma, pp. 110-123 in Wickramasinghe et al Eds Creating Knowledge Based Healthcare Organizations ,Idea Group Inc., Hershey.

Wickramasinghe, N 2004 “Evidence Based Medicine a New Approach in the Practice of Medicine” with Sushil K. Sharma and Harsha Reddy, pp. 125-135 in Wickramasinghe et al Eds Creating Knowledge Based Healthcare Organizations forthcoming to be published by Idea Group Inc., Hershey.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “Realizing Knowledge Assets in the Medical Sciences with Data Mining: an Overview” with A. Fadlalla pp. 164-177 in Wickramasinghe et al Eds Creating Knowledge Based Healthcare Organizations forthcoming to be published by Idea Group Inc., Hershey.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004. "From Data to Decisions: Knowledge Discovery Solutions for Intelligent Enterprises" with S. Sharma pp. 234-244 in Intelligent Enterprises of the 21st Century Eds J. Gupta & S.Sharma, Idea Group Publishing.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “Information Technology Assessment for Knowledge Management” with S. Sharma and J. Gupta pp. 29-49 in Creating Knowledge Based Organizations Eds J. Gupta & S.Sharma, Idea Group Publishing.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “What should SME’s do to succeed in today’s knowledge economy” with S. Sharma and J. Gupta pp.289-303 in Nabeel Al Quirm et als eds Electronic Commerce in Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises: Frameworks, Issues and Implications to be published by Idea Group Inc.

Wickramasinghe, N 2004 “Obstacles to SMEs for e-Adoption in Asia” with S. Sharma pp.112-133 in ebusiness, egovernment & Small and Medium Enterprises: Opportunities and Challenges Eds Al-Qirim et al. Idea Group Publishing.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2003 “Mobile Commerce – The Challenges” with S. Perlusz, D. Vogel and H. Winklhofer in Anderson et al. Eds Seeking Success In E-Business Kluwer academic Publishing Boston.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2001 "Enabling Medical Group Practices" J.B. Silvers pp. 198-213 in T. Spil & R. Stegwee Eds Strategies for Management Healthcare Information Systems, Idea Publishing Hershey, PA.

“University Hospitals of Cleveland Implementing the TDS” with Nathan Levitan & Betty Vandenbosch, in Prentice Hall Case Series in IS, Joyce Elam (Ed.), April 1997.

“University Hospitals of Cleveland Implementing the TDS”, in MMT: Theory, Practice and Cases, Geisler, E. & O. Heller (Eds.), Kluwer Book Series on MMT, March 1997.

Cases:

“University Hospitals of Cleveland: Implementing the TDS System” with Nathan Levitan & Betty Vandenbosch, Weatherhead School of Man­agement, CWRU, 1996.

“Kiethley 1” for CMOST (Centre for Management of Science & Tech­nology), Weatherhead School of Management

CWRU, 1995.

“Kiethley 2” for CMOST(Centre for Management of Science & Tech­nology), Weatherhead School of Management CWRU, 1995.

Revised “Geelong and District Water Board Information Technology Management”, with Prof. Peter Weill, Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne, 1994.

Teaching Note: “Geelong and District Water Board Information Technology Management”, 1994. Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne.

Encyclopaedia Entries:

Wickramasinghe, N 2005 “A Holistic Approach to Knowledge Management” in Ed. J. Wang Encyclopaedia of Knowledge Management Idea Group, Hershey.

Wickramasinghe, N 2005 “Knowledge Discovery Solutions for Intelligent Enterprises” in Ed. M. Khosrow-Pour Encyclopaedia Information Systems Idea Group, Hershey.

Wickramasinghe, N 2005 “Obstacles for SMEs for E-Adoption in the Asia Pacific Region” in Ed. M. Khosrow-Pour Encyclopaedia Information Systems Idea Group, Hershey.

Wickramasinghe, N 2004 “Incorporating the People Perspective in Data Mining” in Ed. J. Wang Encyclopaedia of Data Warehousing and Mining Idea Group, Hershey.

Presentations:

Wickramasinghe, N. 2005 “Healthcare-MIS Curriculum” AMCIS –Omaha, panel presentation

Wickramasinghe, N. 2005 Panel on “e-health: even the thousand mile journey has a first step” chair and discussant at the 18th Bled e-commerce conference.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2005 “A Framework for Delivering m-health excellence” with S. Goldberg 18th Bled e-commerce conference. (presenter and session chair)

Wickramasinghe, N. 2005 “Cutting Through the Gordian Knot of Inefficent Helathcare Processes with the IC” with J. Schaffer IRMA conference San Diego.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “Actualizing the Knowledge Spiral Through Data Mining – A Clinical Example” with J. Schaffer and A. Fadlalla. MedInfo 7-11Sept.

Wickramasinghe,N. 2004 “A Framework For Assessing E-Health PRepardeness” with A. Fadlalla, E. Geisler, and J. Schaffer. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) Aug 5-8.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “Applying the Intelligence ContinuumTM To Create Rationale Processes for Healthcare” with J. Schaffer presented at Deakin University, Melbourne Australia July 16.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “e-health a Global Phenomenon” with D. Vogel, N. Al-Qirim, and F. Hampe. 17th Bled e-commerce Conference, Slovenia June 21-23. CD-ROM.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “Harvesting Health Care Knowledge with the Intelligence ContinuumTM” with J. Schaffer presented at die Berfufsakademie, Heidenheim, Germany May 19.

Wickramasinghe, N 2004 “How M=EC2 in Healthcare” with S. Goldberg Int. Conference on Information Technology (ITCC) April 5-7 Las Vegas.

Wickramasinghe, N 2004 “Issues of Security for Mobile Healthcare Delivery” with S. Misra, a Research Seminar, International Week 2004, Groupe ESC Clermont, Clermont-Ferrand, France, March 29, 2004.

Wickramasinghe, N 2004 “Security Challenge in a Mobile Healthcare Setting” with S. Misra & S. Goldberg, The 5th Annual Conference of the National Business and Economics Society, Hawaii, March 10-13, 2004

Wickramasinghe, N 2004 “Data Mining and Knowledge Management 101-
Applying the Intelligence Continuum™ to Create Rationale Processes for Health Care” with J. Schaffer presentation to the HIMSS Data Warehousing/Data Mining SIG, February 25, Orlando, FL.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 " The KM Infrastructure: Making Implicit Knowledge Assets Explicit" with S.Sharma and A. Fadlalla. 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37) January 5-9, 2004, Hawaii

Wickramasinghe, N. 2003 “Actualizing the Knowledge Spiral with Data Mining” at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Dec.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2003 “Security Challenges In A Mobile Healthcare Setting With Wired Equivalent Security” with S. Misra and S. Goldberg presentation to ITAC Ontario Wireless IT Committee. Nov.

Wickramasinghe, N 2003 “Knowledge Management and Data Mining: Strategic Imperatives for Healthcare” with A. Fadlalla, E. Geisler & J. Schaffer 3rd Hospital Of the Future Conference at Warwick, U.K.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2003 “Making explicit the implicit knowledge assets in healthcare: the case of multidisciplinary teams in care and cure environments” with G. Davison AMCIS 4th-6th Aug.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2003 “KM and DM for Healthcare” presentation at Inst. IS Research, Dept. of Informatics University of Koblenz-Landau, May.

Wickramasinghe, N 2003 “Actualizing the Knowledge Spiral in Healthcare” to the healthcare group at Universitaet Duisburg-Essen Wirtschaftsinformatik

Wickramasinghe, N. 2003 “The wireless the panacea for healthcare” with S. Goldberg . Proceedings of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-35) January 6-10, 2003, Hawaii.

Wickramasinghe, N.2002 “Wireless: Panacea or Placebo for Healthcare” at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Dec.

Wickramasinghe, N.2002 ” A Framework To Assess The Feasibility And Sustainability Of Electronic Business Models “ with S. Sharma & S. Misra at the 5th ICECR conference Montreal Oct.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2002 “Mobilizing Healthcare” with S. Goldberg Proceedings of the 5th ICECR conference Montreal Oct.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2002 “Practising What we Preach” Aug at Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Wickramasinghe N. 2002 "Mobilizing Health Care" with S. Goldberg appears in the proceedings of the 2nd Hospital of the Future Conference Chicago 27-29 July.

Wickramasinghe N. 2002 "Actions Speak Louder Than Words: how we propose to care for your spine" with H. Bloemendal, A. de Bruin & K. Krabbendam appears in the proceedings of the 2nd Hospital of the Future Conference Chicago 27-29 July.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2002 “Mobile commerce: where are we and where are we going” panel chair and discussant with C. Carlson, F. Hempe, R. Scudder & D. Vogel 15th Bled E-commerce conference June

Wickramasinghe, N. 2002 “Mobile Commerce Core Issues” panel chair and participant with D.Scudder, S. Misra & V. Paananen. EICAR Berlin.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2002 “Wireless in healthcare” June at Universitat GH Essen, Germany.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2002 "Reversing the Value Chain" paper with S. Sharma & M. Singh presented at The University of Melbourne's Accounting and Business Systems Seminar series

Wickramasinghe, N. 2002 "e-knowledge in Healthcare: a Strategic Imperative" 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Science Jan 8-11th

Wickramasinghe, N. 2002 "Practising What We Preach: Are Knowledge Management Systems in Practice Really Knowledge Management Systems?" 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Science Jan 8-11th

Wickramasinghe, N. 2001 " Why Security is Such a Big Deal in an e-commerce Environment" the Fourth International Conference on Electronic Commerce Research Dallas, Texas 4 Oct 2001.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2001Panel Chair and discussant for "m-commerce the mobile vision of e-commerce" IFIP TC 8 Conference Salzburg 22-23 June (other panel members : Doug Vogel, Stefano Perlusz & Heidi Winklehoffer)

Wickramasinghe, N. 2001Presentation of paper Wickramasinghe, N & G. Mills 'Knowledge Management Systems: A Health Care Initiative With Lessons For Us All' at the 9th European Conference on Information Systems Bled Slovinia, June 27-29.

Wickramasinghe, N. 20011st Health Care Technology Management Conference 22-24 April Enschede, The Netherlands. ‘The occurrence of self-monitoring in the medical group practice’

Wickramasinghe, N 2001 "m-commerce the mobile vision of e-commerce" IFIP TC 8 Conference Salzburg 22-23 June.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2001 'Knowledge Management Systems: A Health Care Initiative With Lessons For Us All' with G. Mills the 9th European Conference on Information Systems Bled Slovinia, June 27-29.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2001‘The occurrence of self-monitoring in the medical group practice’ with R. Lamb at Management of Healthcare and Medical Technology Conference Enschede, The Netherlands 22-24 April.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2001 “IS/IT Enabling Medical Group Practices In A Managed Care Environment” with J.B. Silvers 34th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science Maui 3-6th Jan

Wickramasinghe, N. 2000. First International Research Symposium on Accounting Information Systems, Brisbane. ‘A framework for Knowledge Management.’

Wickramasinghe, N. 2000 ‘The Triumvirate Business System for the 21st Century’The University of Adelaide, Australia August.

13th e-Commerce Conference Bled, Slovenia – Panel chair and discussant with A. Fairchild, Greiner International , Belgium; D. McCubbery Denver State

University; A. Ragowsky Wayne State University “Integrating ERP with E-commerce: The Challenges and the Importance”

Wickramasinghe N. 2000 ‘IS/IT facilitating a Knowledge Worker Agent’ National University Singapore Symposium June.

Wickramasinghe, N. 2000 ‘IS/IT enabling goal alignment’ The University of Sydney, NSW to present at their seminar series May

Wickramasinghe, N. 2000 ‘The impact of a Knowledge Worker Agent’, The Australian National University, Canberra to present at their Seminar series April

Wickramasinghe, N. 1999 ‘IS/IT as a tool to achieve goal alignment’ Department of Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Seminar Series July 99.

Wickramasinghe, N. 1999 4th International Management Healthcare Technology Meeting held May 3-5 1999. “IS/IT as a tool to achieve goal alignment: a theoretical framework”

Posters: Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “Actualizing the Knowledge Spiral Through Data Mining – A Clinical Example” with J. Schaffer and A. Fadlalla. MedInfo 7-11Sept.

Projects: Guest Editor 2005 for Int. J. Health Care Technology Management special issue focussing on “The Future of Technology in Healthcare” with D. von Lubitz

Guest Editor 2005 for International Journal Risk Assessment and Management special issue focussing on “operations other than war (OOTW)” with D. von Lubitz

Guest Editor 2005 for International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management special issue focussing on “environment and healthcare” with D. von Lubitz

Guest Editor 2004 for Int. J. Health Care Technology Management special issue focussing on “e-Knowledge in healthcare” with V. Wilson and E.Geisler.

Mini track co-chair “e-knowledge in healthcare” AMCIS 2004 with E. Geisler and S. Sharma

Mini track co-chair “e-knowledge in healthcare” AMCIS 2005 with e. Geisler

Member of project team to build a Spine Unit in the Netherlands. This is the first of its kind and my primary role is the design and development of the HMISS.

Developing the IC for healthcare with J. Schaffer at the Cleveland Clinic

Collaborating with INET and ITAC to develop a robust m-health infrastructure and architecture.

Books:

Wickramasinghe, N. 2004 “Creating Knowledge-Based Healthcare Organizations” with J. Gupta and S.Sharma Idea Group Publishers, Hershey.

AWARDS: University Research Merit Award April 2004.

Grants:
2003 “Knowledge Management and Data Mining Strategic Imperatives for Healthcare” Summer Research Grant College of Business, CSU. with A. Fadlalla

2001-2002 Graduate College: New Faculty Start up grant $3000

2000 received AUD$10,000[5] Melbourne Research Development Grant Scheme to fund my project “Management Medical Technology in Australia” with E. Geisler

2000 received AUD$8000[6] top up from the Faculty of Economics and Commerce to fund my project “Management Medical Technology in Australia” with E.Geisler.

1999 received a competitive Staff Development Research Grant AUD$8000 to fund my research project in Knowledge Management systems Faculty of Economics and Commerce, The University of Melbourne