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Anne Quaadgras
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Anne Quaadgras is the Director of the MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative and a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan.
Her work focuses on health systems transformation, and the role of information technology in supporting that change.
Prior to her doctoral work, Anne was a management consultant for fifteen years, specializing in improving decision-making and investment processes in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and financial services industries.
She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in chemical engineering from MIT. Anne earned her doctorate in information systems at Boston University, where her dissertation research explored how globally distributed groups of experts recognize and respond to operational problems.
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"You May Not Need Big Data After All."Ross, Jeanne W., Cynthia M. Beath, and Anne Quaadgras. Harvard Business Review, December 1, 2013.
Featured Publication
"Building a Better USMC Psychological Health System: Coordination Analysis and Design Recommendations."Quaadgras, Anne, Amy Glasmeier, and Ken Kaplan, Working Paper. January 2016.
Recent Insights
Bringing quality healthcare home
What if patients could receive hospital-quality care from the comfort of home? Beth Israel Lahey Health is making that possible. In August 2023, they launched the Hospital at Home program at one of the system’s hospitals, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, MA, enabling qualified patients to receive inpatient level care in a familiar environment. The ambitious project required entrepreneurial thinking and a startup mentality, which made MIT Sloan’s Healthcare Lab (H-Lab) a perfect collaborator, says Hospital at Home Vice President and MIT Executive MBA alumnus Susan Stempek, EMBA ’20.
Decreasing time to diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in underrepresented populations
As part of MIT Sloan's Healthcare Lab, Biogen engaged students to promote health equity in underrepresented populations.