In a healthcare system, resource allocation mechanisms should promote efficiency, improve quality of care and reduce practice variation. This paper presents a framework that has been used at the US Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Healthcare Network Upstate New York, to guide resource...

This thesis is a collection of three essays with contributions to the intergenerational and intra-generational mobility literature. The essay on full risk insurance and measurement error examines the likelihood that measurement error may reconcile observed departures from perfect rank immobility...

This doctoral thesis draws on the financial economics, strategic management, product innovation, and health technology literatures to investigate and explain conditions under which corporate acquisitions in the medical device industry have enhanced or eroded shareholder wealth and financial...

The research in this thesis focuses on the pharmaceutical R&D investment decision. The two primary hypotheses I test are that: (1) capital market imperfections in the market for pharmaceutical R&D finance impart a lower cost of capital to internal funds relative to external debt and equity, and...

Background: Most Ministries of Health across Africa invest substantial resouces in some form of health management information system (HMIS) to coordinate the routine acquisition and compilation of monthly treatment and attendance records from health facilities nationwide. Despite the expense of...

This study presents a normative framework of the RFID implementation process in the UK public sector. It was motivated by the lack of socio-technical studies on the RFID implementation process in the UK public sector and the need for existing and potential RFID project managers to have an...

This is a copy of an article published in the Population Health Management © 2011 Copyright Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.; Population Health Management is available online at: http://www.liebertonline.com. DOI: 10.1089/pop.2010.0021.

"This paper offers an empirical analysis of the relationship between income sharing rules and heterogeneity in medical group practices. The economies to group formation associated with risk sharing, mutual monitoring, and internal referral are served by sharing at least a portion of group income...

This dissertation deals with three problems in health care. In the first, we consider the incentives to change prices and capital levels at hospitals, using optimal control under the assumption that private payers charge higher prices if patients consume more hospital services. The main results...

Disertacijos objektas yra sveikatos apsaugos sistemos konkurencinis potencialas. Valdymo teoretikai, ieškodami kaip tinkamai sveikatos apsaugos sistemoms atsakyti į šiuolaikinės aplinkos keliamus iššūkius, vartoja strategiškai orientuotos sistemos sąvoką ir teigia, kad tokioje...