Claudia Guerrazzi Young

Biography

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor of Healthcare Management, Belmont University
• Assistant Professor of Management, Widener University
• Graduate Assistant, Department of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Health and Social care Management (CERGAS), Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Durant, D. J., & Young, C. G. (2021). Can Emergency Department Wait Times Predict Rates of Hospital-Acquired Clostridioides difficile Infection? A Study of Acute Care Facilities in New York State. Journal of Patient Safety. 18(2), e508–e513.
• Guerrazzi Young, C., Feldman, S. S., & Hernandez, S. R. (2020). Inter-organizational information sharing and bundled payment reimbursement: Do hospitals in the US use health information exchange to collaborate? International Journal of Medical Informatics, 104298.
• Guerrazzi, C., & Feldman, S. S. (2020). Health information exchange: What matters at the organizational level?. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 102, 103375.
• Guerrazzi, C. (2019). An International Perspective on Health Information Exchange: Adoption in OECD Countries With Different Health Care System Configurations. Medical Care Research and Review, 1077558719858245.

SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS

• William J. Zahka Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, School of Business Administration, Widener University (2022)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Claudia Guerrazzi Young joined Belmont University as an Associate Professor of Healthcare Management in 2022. Prior to joining Belmont University, she was an Assistant Professor in the School of Business Administration at Widener University, where she taught undergraduate management classes and graduate classes in the Health Care Management MBA. She received her Ph.D. in Health Services Administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Before her doctoral studies, she obtained both her MSc and BSc degrees in economics and management of public administration in Italy, from Bocconi University and the University of Siena, respectively.

Her research interests are related to the strategic management of innovation in organizations, especially technological innovation, in organizations that operate in industries that intend to serve the public good, such as health care. Over the years, her research activity has focused on several different topics, including the adoption and implementation of Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchange, mobile health, quality and process improvement in healthcare, and rural hospitals’ performance. Her approach to research has been characterized by diverse perspectives, from the organizational to the international one, and by different research methods, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods analyses.