I think one of my specialties are mostly Italian food but I like to make breakfast foods for my kids too. According to them, I'm the best crepe maker around but that might not be saying much in northern Indiana, so. Yeah, I tried but I shouldn't have any excuses now that I have plenty of time in my house so the weather can't be my excuse anymore.

Sure. I don't think our information system's a degree. We actually call it IT management at the undergraduate level. I don't think it's that different from most of the other programs out there, but we teach systems analysis and design, VBA course, we keep strategic IT, quantitative decision modelling but then our students also take a large selection of elective courses, just in the business school. So, they are obviously getting finance, accounting, marketing, organizational behavior, and that sort of thing. But we also have a business analytics major now. So, we've enrolled our first class for that, and we also have a masters of science in business analytics. So, we have jumped into the waters of business analytics. Our MSBA has been out there for about three years now, and our undergraduate degree is just a year now. About half of our undergraduate students with the ITM major go to consulting firms. So, the Deloitte, Accenture, Booz Allen, they hire a lot of our students. We send some into like consumer products goods companies, technology companies, pure tech companies. Healthcare is another area where we send a lot of our students. We are not a gigantic program. Last year, we had just under 90 students graduating with an undergraduate in IT management. There's probably forty different firms that hire, but without a doubt, the biggest chunk of that is IT consulting. And a lot of our students go to Chicago because of proximity, but we've placed students in New York, Silicon Valley, down south. We tend to drive our students from all over the country so part of that is them going back home but the other part is just the recruiter's mostly from Chicago come in to South Bend for recruiting.

About eighty percent of my work is in health information technology, but the vast majority of my published work is in health IT. Most of my work is at the firm level. I do a lot of work with panel data so I have IT adoption for pretty much all the hospitals in the United States and I use that database quite a lot. But I also have interest in some emerging technologies in healthcare. I don't know that I would call health information exchange as emerging anymore but ten, fifteen years ago we didn't hear a lot about health information exchanges. I have a paper that's coming out on that and we're working on another, but for the most part I would say that my work is trying to understand where we can extract value from information systems that are used in healthcare and all of the offshoots of that. So, some of it I would describe as topical and that we see some things in the process that we're reading about. For example, a recent thing that was discussed is that physicians are moving hospitals as a result to the hospital adopting disruptive technology. So, the article was saying that some doctors are leaving the profession because of medical records are tiring. We have been able to quantify some of the results. In fact, we found out that the doctors are definitely not retiring as a result to disruptive innovations entering healthcare, but there is some evidence that they might be moving to different facilities. So, that makes up most of the work that I do and it's pretty much been that way since the early 2000s when I was still at University of Maryland and working in the center there where our focus was specifically on studying health information systems.