Dr. Christopher Harle is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Indiana’ University’s Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, where he directs the PhD program in Health Policy and Management. He is also a Research Scientist in the Regenstrief Institute's Center for Biomedical Informatics and an associate faculty in the Kelley School of Business. He holds an MS in decision and information sciences from the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business Administration and a PhD in information systems and management from Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III College.
Dr. Harle’s research focuses on the design, adoption, use, and value of health information systems. His primary interest is in understanding how information technology-mediated communication tools affect consumer, patient, and provider decisions and behavior. Recently, with funding from Pfizer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), his research has focused on developing clinical decision support tools to support primary care clinicians in chronic pain care and opioid prescribing. Other recent research, funded by the NIH, focuses on developing interactive electronic informed consent processes for obtaining broad consent from patients to share their electronic health records for research studies.