Faculty

Thomas Rundall, Ph.D.Thomas Rundall, Ph.D.
Executive Associate Dean, Professor of Health Policy and Management
PHONE: (510) 642-4606
FAX: (510) 643-6981
LOCATION: 247-H University Hall
E-MAIL: trundall@berkeley.edu

 

Research Interests

  • Application of organizational theory to health care
  • Physician practice organizations
  • Hospital restructuring
  • Program and policy evaluation
  • Information technology in health care

Courses

  • PH218C Advanced Program and Policy and Evaluation  
  • PH223B Capstone Cases in Health Management  
  • PH200 D Applied Public Health: Putting Theory Into Practice

Selected Publications

Scott J. T., Rundall, T.G., Vogt, T.M., & Hsu, J. (2007). Implementing an electronic medical record system: successes, failures, lessons. Oxford : Radcliffe Publishing.

Hung, Dorothy Y., Thomas G. Rundall, Crabtree, B. F., Tallia, A.F., Cohen, D. J. & Halpin, H. A. (2006). Influence of practice and provider attributes on preventive service delivery. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 30(5), 413-22.

Kovner, A., & and Rundall, T. G. (2006). Evidence-based management reconsidered. Frontiers of Health Services Management, 22(3), 3-22.

Schmittdiel, J., Shortell, S.M., Rundall, T., Bodenheimer, T., & Selby, J. V. (2006). The effect of primary health care orientation on chronic illness care management. Annals of Family Medicine, 4(2), 117-123.

Alexander, J. A., Rundall, T. G. & Hoff. T. (2006). Power and politics in health services organizations. In S. M. Shortell, A. D. Kaluzny and Associates (Eds.), Health care management: A text in organizational theory and behavior, fifth edition (pp. 276-310). Albany , New York : Delmar Publishers.

Rundall, T. G., & Evashwick, C. J. (2005). Organizing the continuum of long-term care.  Chapter 10 in Evashwick, C. (ed.) The continuum of long-term care: An integrated systems approach, 3rd edition (pp. 187-199). Albany , New York : Delmar Publishers.

Scott, J. T., Rundall, T.G., Vogt, T.M., & Hsu, J. (2005). Kaiser Permanente's experience of implementing an electronic medical record: A qualitative study. BMJ, doi:10.1136/bmj.38638.497477.68 (published 3 November 2005). Also published in paper copy of the BMJ, 2005, Vol. 331, December 3: 1313-1316.

Simon, J. S., Rundall, T.G., & Shortell, S.M. (2005). Drivers of electronic medical record adoption among medical groups. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 31(11), 631-639.

Halpin, H. A., McMenamin, S.B., Schmittdiel, J., Gillies, R.R., Shortell, S.M., Rundall, T.G., & Casalino, L. (2005). The routine use of health risk appraisals: Results from a national study of physicians. American Journal of Health Promotion, 20(1), 34-38.

Coffman, J. M., & Rundall, T.G. (2005). The impact of hospitalists on the cost and quality of inpatient care in the United States : A research synthesis. Medical Care Research and Review, 62(4), 379-406.

Shortell, S. M., Schmittdiel, J., Wang, M.C., Li, R., Gillies, R., Casalino, L., Robinson, J.C., & and Rundall, T.G. (2005). An empirical assessment of high performing medical groups: Results from a national study. Medical Care Research and Review, 62(4), 407-434.

Schmittdiel, J., McMenamin, S.B., Halpin, H.A., Gillies, R.R. Bodenheimer, T., Shortell, S.M., Rundall, T., & Casalino, L. (2004) The use of patient and physician reminders for preventive services: Results from a national study of physician organizations. Preventive Medicine, 39, 2000-2006.

Bodenheimer, T., Wang, M.C., Rundall, T.G., Shortell, S.M., Gillies, R.R., Oswald, N., Casalino, L. & and Robinson, J. (2004) What are the facilitators and barriers in physician organization's use of care management processes? Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety, 30 (9), 505-514.

Rundall, T. G., Alexander, J. and Shortell, S.M. (2004). A theory of physician-hospital integration: Contending institutional and market logics in the health care field. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 45 (extra issue), 102-117.

Other Interests

  • Member, Board of Directors, On Lok, Inc., 2006 -
  • Member, Board of Directors, John Muir Health, 2009 -
  • Member, Advisory Committee, Sutter Health Institute for Research and Education, 2005 -

Profile updated: February 26, 2009