Aim: The paper aims to study and present the case study of the health sector of India. The paper also aims to identify the opportunities for the application of Big data in the health sector. The major stakeholders of the system viz. doctors, hospitals, clinics, insurance companies,...

Chapter 1. Private vs. Pooled Transportation: Customer Preference and Congestion Management -- Chapter 2. Optimal Dispatch in Emergency Service System via Reinforcement Learning -- Chapter 3. Towards Understanding the Dynamics of COVID-19: An Approach based on Polynomial Regression with Adaptive...

Early empirical evidence indicates that Medicare Advantage (MA), the largest capitation payment program in the U.S. healthcare market, unintentionally incentivizes health plans to cherry pick profitable patient types, which is referred to as "risk selection". Motivated by this observation, we...

COVID-19 is imposing massive health, social and economic costs. While many developed countries have started vaccinating, most African nations are waiting for vaccine stocks to be allocated, and are using clinical public health (CPH) strategies to control the pandemic. The emergence of Variants...

This report explores how data and digital technology can help achieve policy objectives and drive positive transformation in the health sector while managing new risks such as privacy, equity and implementation costs. It examines the following topics: improving service delivery models;...