In this paper we use a panel of administrative data to determine the factors associated with primary care physician self-selection into different payment models in Ontario, Canada. We find that primary care physicians will self-select into payment models based on existing practice and individual characteristics. These patterns of self-selection largely follow a utility maximizing model of physi...

The O2O is a fast-growing emerging business model, the O2O business model framework is established and the most basic 7 major elements are identified in our research with Value Net theory as follow: customer, telecom operator, content provider, service provider, software provider, third-party payment platform and offline business entity. Then, we apply the Delphi method to identify 8 secondary ...

Introduction This report summarizes the history of an innovative payment reform project in Massachusetts which began in 2009 and ended in autumn 2011, at which time project stakeholders mutually decided that the originally anticipated payment change -paying equally for procedures that, according to comparative effectiveness reviews, produced equal outcomes for patients with low-risk prostate ca...

We study a family of network formation models to determine how payment rules affect the final network topologies that emerge. In our model a set of nodes starts out without any edges and the nodes must pay for the creation of edges using one of several different payment mechanisms. Example payment mechanisms include one node paying for the whole edge, and the cost being shared equally between t...

electronic payment system in one of the e-banking services and must be reliable and free of security deficiencies in order to overcome traditional system. improving customer’s perceptions of security and trust in the course of electronic payment transactions is vital in order to attract, retain and retrieve users of such a system. this study aimed to investigate the effects of customers’ percep...