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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"healthcare operations"”.
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Essays On The Intersection Of Healthcare Operations And Economics
… by multiple, interacting entities within the healthcare industry. The essay, "Searching for the Best Yardstick: Cost of Quality Improvements in the U.S. Hospital Industry," takes the perspective of the regulator in improving incentive programs designed to induce hospitals to invest in quality. …
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Optimal Decision Making for Healthcare Operations: Models and Implementation
Healthcare systems face financial and operational challenges to provide high-quality patient care. Advances in machine learning and scalable optimization have led to opportunities for utilizing analytics to improve healthcare operations. However, only a limited number of models have been …
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Stochastic models and data driven simulations for healthcare operations
… thesis considers problems in two areas in the healthcare operations: Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) and scheduling medical residents in hospitals. In both areas, we explore the implications of policy change through high fidelity simulations. We then build stochastic models to provide strategic …
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Algorithmic advancements in discrete optimization : applications to machine learning and healthcare operations
… facilities. Consequently, the future of hospital operations will have three salient characteristics. First, data. The ability to process, analyze and exploit data effectively will become a vital skill for practitioners. Second, a holistic approach, since orchestrating care requires the concurrent …
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Analytics for Healthcare Operations: Machine Learning to Improve Emergency Department Patient Flow
… a generic service system that captures typical healthcare settings, in which a hospital has to manage bed assignment in the face of bed requests from patients with different characteristics. The service system (e.g., a hospital) must decide whether to accept or reject service requests …
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Data Mining and Causal Analyses: A Healthcare Operations Approach to Understanding the Patient Journey
This thesis intersects traditional operations management and data analytics with clinical applications to provide insight into the patient journey – the process of how patient seek and receive care from the healthcare system. In the first section of the thesis, we empirically analyze the beginning …
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Technology-Driven Solutions for Smarter Care: Telemedicine, Data-Driven Analytics, and AI in Healthcare Operations
Healthcare systems globally are grappling with increasing demand, ageing populations, and persistent resource constraints. In the United Kingdom, the National Health Service (NHS), a publicly funded system offering free care at the point of use, is facing mounting pressure from long outpatient …
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Analytics under Variability, Volume, and Velocity with Applications to Sustainability and Healthcare
… our time, including climate change and improved healthcare operations. The classical paradigm of analytics, which assumes a dataset is centrally collected and readily available to analyze, is shifting. Modern data science problems present new complexities, including variability (i.e., changing …
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Ambulatory Clinic Scheduling
… developing ambulatory clinic schedules for three healthcare facilities including the challenges we faced, lessons learned, and value provided to our partner organizations. Based on our experiences we identify and model the key elements of the CSP, providing a general model for future use. To solve …
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System interfaces to facilitate follow-up pharmaceutical care in the United States
… of follow-up pharmaceutical care in the US Healthcare System. To achieve this, semi-structured interviews were conducted with various healthcare system stakeholders. The transcripts of these interviews were analyzed to identify the needs expressed by each interviewee, which were then …
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Empirical Investigations Into The Causal Impact Of Healthcare Provider Behavior On Patient Care
This dissertation in operations management focuses on the study of healthcare operations management using large-scale empirical datasets and econometric methods. In chapter one, we utilize infrared location tracking data to study the impact of physical facility layout on how service workers …
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Multimodality: Models, Algorithms, and Applications
… methods is surging. We investigate combining operations research and artificial intelligence to address urgent sustainability and healthcare concerns by developing adaptable, universally applicable frameworks. This thesis delves into multimodality by using simultaneously distinct data types, …
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Advancing Emergency Department Efficiency, Infectious Disease Management at Mass Gatherings, and Self-Efficacy Through Data Science and Dynamic Modeling
… impact lies in its contribution to optimizing healthcare operations, informing public health policy, and shaping educational strategies to be more culturally sensitive and psychologically informed. It provides a roadmap for future research and practical applications across the healthcare, …
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Macroergonomics to Understand Factors Impacting Patient Care During Electronic Health Record Downtime
… these computer support systems have provided healthcare operations with new safety nets, and efficiency increases, but also introduce new problems when they suddenly go offline. These downtime events are chaotic and dangerous for patients. With the safety systems clinicians have become …
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Does Similarity Produce Synergy in Horizontal Hospital Acquisitions? Linking Operations Characteristics to Operations Strategy
… and so forth. To understand the roles that operations characteristics, and operations strategy play in hospital acquisitions, this dissertation examines the direct effects of geographic proximity and the service overlap on an acquired hospital’s post-acquisition operational performance …
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Three Essays on Incentive Problems of Parties with Potential Conflict of Interest
… contexts, such as supply chain management and healthcare operations management. However, in the fast-changing business environment, there is a need to study and understand the new and emerging strategic behaviors of firms to adopt better incentive mechanisms and reach desired outcomes. This …
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Analysis of participant retention issues in clinical studies
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Continuity of Service Provision for Repeat Customers: Empirical Investigations of Continuity of Care in Primary Care Practices
Many service processes are sequences of independent transactions between customers and servers. In such contexts it is well known that pooling server time and offering an arriving customer the next available server, independently of whether they had seen the customer before, is most efficient. …