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Health Decision Analysis: Evolution, Trends, and Emerging Topics

WebIn this positioning paper, and introduction to this Special Issue, we present the history, evolution, and trends of health decision analysis and suggest that these developments and news trends can be conceptualized as an emerging field of applied research for our discipline: Health Decision Analysis. Health remains one of the most …

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How Hospitals Differentiate Health Information Technology …

WebHospitals have implemented health information technology (HIT) for clinical care to address rising operating costs in recent years. We integrate behavioral and institutional perspectives to explain how hospitals differentiate technological search relative to industry peers (i.e., search differentiation) for HIT portfolios.

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The Effects of Health Information Exchange Access on Healthcare …

WebHealth information exchanges (HIEs) are designed to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare by facilitating improved information sharing between health entities. This study systematically

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Healthcare Across Boundaries: Urban-Rural Differences in the

WebWe study the impacts of telehealth adoption on geographic competition among urban and rural healthcare providers. We consider a quasinatural experiment: states’ entry into the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, wherein the entry events facilitate healthcare providers to adopt telehealth technology.

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Health Wearables, Gamification, and Healthful Activity

Web2. Background. Physical activity is a key element of healthful living and is known to have significant health benefits (Penedo and Dahn 2005, Warburton et al. 2006).Our main outcome variable is Fitbit step counts and includes a variety of these healthful physical activities, such as jogging, running, walking, playing sports, climbing …

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No Panic in Pandemic: The Impact of Individual Choice on Public …

WebProblem definition: Public health interventions, such as social distancing and lockdown, play an important role in containing infectious disease outbreaks, such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Yet, these interventions could cause significant financial losses because of the disruption to regular socioeconomic activities.

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Join Us at the INFORMS 2024 Junior Faculty Network Session!

WebWe are excited to invite you to the Junior Faculty Network Session at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, from October 20-23, 2024! This engaging event is specifically designed for junior faculty members within the Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Mining (DM), Health Applications Society (HAS), and Quality Statistics and Reliability …

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Editorial Overview—The Role of Information Systems in Healthcare

WebInformation systems have great potential to reduce healthcare costs and improve outcomes. The purpose of this special issue is to offer a forum for theory-driven research that explores the role of IS in the delivery of healthcare in its diverse organizational and regulatory settings.

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2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting

WebSunday, October 20, 2024 - Wednesday, October 23, 2024. Location: Seattle Convention Center Country: United States of America (USA) State: (USA) Washington. Sponsor: INFORMS. URL: 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting. The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

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Doing Well by Making Well: The Impact of Corporate Wellness …

WebThis paper investigates the impact of a corporate wellness program on worker productivity using a panel of objective health and productivity data from 111 workers in five laundry plants.

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Continuity of Care Increases Physician Productivity in Primary Care

WebContinuity of care, defined as an ongoing therapeutic relationship between a patient and a physician, is a defining characteristic of primary care. However, arranging a consultation with one’s regular doctor is increasingly difficult as practices face physician shortages. We study the effect of declining care continuity on the productivity of

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A Bitter Pill to Swallow

WebOnline health question-and-answer (Q&A) platforms (OHQPs), where patients post health-related questions, evaluate advice from multiple doctors, and direct a bounty (monetary reward) to their most preferred answer, have become a prominent channel for patients to receive medical advice in China.

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The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and …

WebEven though epidemiological evidence links specific workplace stressors to health outcomes, the aggregate contribution of these factors to overall mortality and health spending in the United States is not known.

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Algorithmic Prediction of Health-Care Costs Operations Research

WebThe key findings are: (a) our data-mining methods provide accurate predictions of medical costs and represent a powerful tool for prediction of health-care costs, (b) the pattern of past cost data is a strong predictor of future costs, and (c) medical information only contributes to accurate prediction of medical costs of high-cost members.

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Saving Patient Ryan—Can Advanced Electronic Medical Records …

WebThe risk of patient harm resulting from medical care affects hundreds of thousands of patients and costs tens of billions of dollars every year. Advanced electronic medical records (EMRs) are expec

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Economies of Scale and Scope in Hospitals: An Empirical

WebGeneral hospitals across the world are becoming larger (i.e., admitting more patients each year) and more complex (i.e., offering a wider range of services to patients with more diverse care needs).

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Empirical Research in Healthcare Operations: Past Research

WebWe examine the published empirical literature in healthcare operations management over the last 20 years. We note several unique characteristics of the research in healthcare operations, including a focus on operational and organizational variables, an interest in the underlying mechanisms that explain operational causal pathways, and an …

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Are Online Reviews of Physicians Reliable Indicators of Clinical

WebCurrent trends on patient empowerment indicate that patients who play an active role in managing their health also seek and use information obtained from online reviews of physicians.

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Friends with Health Benefits: A Field Experiment

WebAbstract. When pursuing goals, we commonly choose between going it alone versus teaming up together. In a field experiment ( n = 774), we tested the benefits of rewarding individual versus tandem goal pursuit. In a standard-reward condition, we experimentally offered gym members an individual cash reward each day they visited the …

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How Do Consumers Interact with Digital Expert Advice

WebThe authors thank Palo Alto Medical Foundation patient stakeholders and trial participants as well as numerous Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute team members for making the trial possible.

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