Adrienne Baer

In pursuit of building a more equitable healthcare system and care infrastructure, organizations are innovating new ways to use data or to fill data gaps. Broadly, I use ethnographic methods to understand how these organizations collect and use data in developing and delivering healthcare and care economy innovations, with a specific focus on organizations that leverage technology to improve equity and reduce care disparities. My research explores how organizations collect data from some group of constituents, transform data into new products or configurations (inherently imbuing meaning), and deploy these new data products to achieve organizational or societal care goals. With this work, at the intersection of organizational theory, healthcare management, and data science, I aim to provide not only theoretically relevant findings, but practically relevant insights for organizations that wrangle with data in their efforts to make care safer, more accessible, and more effective for all.