Brian Hilligoss
Associate Professor of Management and Organizations
Peter and Nancy Salter Fellow in Healthcare Management
McClelland Hall 405NN
1130 E. Helen St.
P.O. Box 210108
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0108
Documents
Areas of Expertise
Coordination
Healthcare management
High-reliability organizations
Organizational change
Organizational routines
Sensemaking
Selected Publications
- Hilligoss, B., Tanenbaum, S.J., Paul, M., Ferrari, R.M., & Song, P.H. (in press). What makes health services usable? Insights from a qualitative study of caregivers of children with disabilities. Health Care Management Review.
- Hilligoss, B., Song, P.H., & McAlearney, A.S. Coping with interdependencies related to patient choice: Boundary-spanning at four accountable care organizations. Health Care Management Review, In press.
- Hilligoss, B., Song, P.H., & McAlearney, A.S. (2017). Aligning for accountable care: Strategic practices for change in accountable care organizations. Health Care Management Review, 42(3), 192-202.
- Hefner, J.L., Hilligoss, B., Sieck, C., Walker, D.M., Sova, L., Song, P., McAlearney, A.S. (2016). Meaningful engagement of ACOs with communities: The new population health management. Medical Care, 54(11), 970–976.
- Vogus, T.J., & Hilligoss, B. (2016). The underappreciated role of habit in highly reliable healthcare. BMJ Quality & Safety, 25(3), 141-146.
- Hilligoss, B., Mansfield, J., Patterson, E., & Moffatt-Bruce, S. (2015). Collaborating—or “selling” patients? A conceptual framework for emergency department-to-inpatient handoff negotiations. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 41(3), 134-143.
- Hilligoss, B. & Vogus, T.J. (2015). Navigating care transitions: A process model of how doctors overcome organizational barriers and create awareness. Medical Care Research and Review, 72(1) 25–48.
- Hilligoss, B., & Moffatt-Bruce, S.D. (2014). The limits of checklists: Handoff and narrative thinking. BMJ Quality & Safety, 23(7) 528-533.
- Hilligoss, B. (2014). Selling patients and other metaphors: A discourse analysis of the interpretive frames that shape emergency department admission handoffs. Social Science and Medicine. 102. 119-128.
- Hilligoss, B., & Zheng, K. (2013). Chart biopsy: An emerging medical practice enabled by electronic health records and its impacts on emergency department–inpatient admission handoffs. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 20(2) 260-267.
- Hilligoss, B., & Cohen, M.D. (2013). The unappreciated challenges of between-unit handoffs: Negotiating and coordinating across boundaries. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 61(2) 155-160.
- Cohen, M.D., Hilligoss, B., & Amaral, A.C.K. (2012). Handoff is not a telegram: Understanding of the patient is co-constructed. Critical Care, 16(1), 303-309.
- Hilligoss, B., & Cohen, M.D. (2011). Hospital handoffs as multifunctional situated routines: Implications for researchers and administrators. Advances in Health Care Management, 11, 91-132.
- Cohen, M.D., & Hilligoss, P.B. (2009). The published literature on handoffs in hospitals: Deficiencies identified in an extensive review. Quality & Safety in Health Care, 19(6) 493-497.
Professional Associations
- Academy of Management
- Health Care Management Division (Executive Committee Member 2018-2023)
- Health Care Management Division (Academic-at-Large 2015-2017)
- Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division
- Organization and Management Theory Division
Editorial Board
- Health Care Management Review
Awards and Honors
- Above and Beyond the Call of Duty (ABCD) Award, Academy of Management, Organization and Management Theory Division, 2019
- Outstanding Reviewer, Academy of Management, Health Care Management Division, 2018
- Excellence in Teaching Award. Ohio State University College of Public Health, 2016-2017
- Outstanding Reviewer, Academy of Management, Health Care Management Division, 2016, 2015, 2014
- Best Theory to Practice Paper. Academy of Management, Health Care Management Division, 2015
- Best Paper Selections, Human Factors and Organizational Issues, IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, International Medical Informatics Association, 2014
- Outstanding Paper Based on a Dissertation. Academy of Management, Health Care Management Division, 2013
Degree(s)
- PhD in Information, University of Michigan, 2011
- MSIS in Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001
- BCA in Theatre, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1989