Hannah Neprash, PhD

Phone: 612.626.5818
Email: hneprash@umn.edu

Division of Health Policy and Management
University of Minnesota
420 Delaware St. SE
MMC 729
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Completed Projects - (2)

Ransomware Attacks on Rural Hospitals
The rise in hospital ransomware attacks threatens to harm patients, especially in rural areas. This project used a novel dataset to analyze rural/urban differences in how ransomware attacks affect patients and hospitals.
Research center: University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), Emergency medical services (EMS) and trauma, Health information technology, Hospitals and clinics
Team-Based Primary Care in Rural Communities
This project will describe primary care practice structure in rural communities and quantify characteristics of primary care teams associated with high-quality care.
Research center: University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Allied health professionals, Healthcare access, Nurses and nurse practitioners, Physicians, Quality, Rural statistics and demographics, Workforce

Characteristics of Short-Term Acute Care Hospitals That Experienced a Ransomware Attack From 2016 to 2021
Journal Article
University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Date: 08/2023
Ransomware is a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid. In this paper, researchers compare the characteristics (including rurality) of ransomware-attacked and non-attacked hospitals in the U.S. in order to understand which hospitals may be most vulnerable to cybercrime.

Nurse Practitioner Autonomy and Complexity of Care in Rural Primary Care
Journal Article
University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Date: 07/2020
The increasing number of nurse practitioners (NPs) in the rural U.S. has the potential to help alleviate primary care shortages. Using a nationwide source of claims and Electronic Health Record data from 2017, this study constructs measures of NP clinical autonomy and complexity of care.
Differences by Rurality in Satisfaction With Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries
Journal Article
University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Date: 05/2020
There are stark differences between rural and urban areas in demographic characteristics, health status, and healthcare. Yet less is known about rural‐urban differences in Medicare beneficiaries' satisfaction with care. We seek to understand rural‐urban differences in satisfaction with care for Medicare beneficiaries.