Dori Cross, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health

Contact Info
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health
PhD, Health Services Organization and Policy (Cognate: Organizational Studies), University of Michigan, 2018
BSPH, BA Health Policy and Management, Economics, University of North Carolina, 2010
Summary
My research seeks to understand and promote organizational changes that improve care coordination and transitions of care for complex patient populations. My interdisciplinary training combines organizational studies, implementation/improvement science, and informatics. I enjoy using EHR-generated data and creative mixed methods approaches to explore use and evaluation of health information technology, team-based approaches to care, and organizational capacity for change and innovation in response to a constantly evolving delivery system landscape.
Expertise
Health Information Technology, Health Information Exchange, Care Transitions, Delivery System Reform, Implementation Science, Mixed Methods
Research
Publications
Cross, DA, P Nong, GR Cohen, CH Lemak, A Linden and J Adler-Milstein (In Press). Practice Strategies to Improve Primary Care for Chronic Disease Patients Under a Pay-for-Value Program. Healthcare.
Cross, DA (2018). Contextual factors affecting implementation of team-base primary care: A scoping review. In McDermott, A., Exworthy, M., and Kitchener, M. (Eds), Attaining, sustaining and spreading improvement: Art or Science? Basingstoke; Palgrave Macmillan.
Cross, DA, GR Cohen, CH Lemak and J Adler-Milstein (2017). Outcomes for High-Needs Patients: Practices With a Higher Proportion of these Patients Have an Edge. Health Affairs, 36(3):476-84.
Cross, DA and J Adler-Milstein (2017). Investing in Post-Acute Care Transitions: Electronic Information Exchange between Hospitals and Long-term Care Facilities. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 18(1):30-34.
Cross, DA,SC Lin and J Adler-Milstein. (2015). Assessing Payer Perspectives on Health Information Exchange. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Published Online July 3, 2015.
Teaching
Teaching Areas
Health Informatics
Media
In The News
SPH News
- Implementation Stymies Use of Health Information Exchange Systems in Skilled Nursing Facilities
- Primary Care Strategies to Improve Health of Chronic Disease Patients
In The Media
- Health information exchange between SNFs, hospitals deemed underused, rudderless (McKnight's Long-term Care News)
- Research Brief: Primary care strategies to improve health of chronic disease patients (UMN News)
- Primary care strategies to improve health of chronic disease patients (Medical Xpress)