The US public health insurance market is shifting toward reimbursement models that transfer risk away from the government and toward health insurers and healthcare providers. Instead of paying fee-for-service (FFS) to healthcare providers, Medicaid and Medicare now outsource healthcare delivery to managed care plans and the plans accept risk related to their enrollees’ healthcare costs. Previou...

We propose that prediction markets may be useful for predicting influenza activity by aggregating the expert opinion of healthcare professionals quickly, accurately, and inexpensively. Experimental markets have been successfully used by the Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM) to predict other outcomes ranging from election results to movie box office receipts. Since 1988, the IEM has developed an imp...

background and objectives: in continuous medical learning programs, selection of appropriate learning methods is important for streaming individuals by learning process. the goal of this study is to compare in-presence learning method with distance learning method and explore their effect on the knowledge of health workers (practical nurses) in terms of reduced expenses.   methods: the study is...

Using a 2004 Japanese natural experiment affecting physician supply, we study the physician labor market and its effects on hospital exits and health outcomes. Although physicians play a central role in determining the performance of a healthcare system, identifying their impacts are difficult because physician supply is endogenously determined. We circumvent the problem by exploiting an exogen...

A my Finkelstein is the 2012 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association. A notable feature of Amy’s research program is the dedication with which she has pursued her core interests in insurance markets and health care. She has addressed, with new insights at each turn, central issues such as whether asymmetric information leads to ineffi ciencies in insurance...

E merging markets are now attracting significant interest among IT professionals and researchers. These markets represent twothirds of the world’s population, generate over 20 percent of the world’s gross domestic product, and are restructuring themselves to foster further growth and socioeconomic development. Furthermore, increased investments in science and technology research and development...

A recent survey of the state of strategic planning among healthcare organizations indicates that planners and executives believe that healthcare strategic planning practices are effective and provide the appropriate focus and direction for their organizations. When compared to strategic planning practices employed outside of the healthcare field, however, most healthcare strategic planning proc...

To market new products and services successfully, innovative ventures not only require good ideas but also organizational legitimacy. Legitimacy or ‘social acceptance’ from stakeholders allows entrepreneurs in the mobilizing of resources and necessary supportive contacts to grow their venture. Developing legitimacy is a particularly complex process for private ventures operating in markets of s...

this is a commentary on gilbert and colleagues’ (1) paper on morality and markets in the national health service (nhs). morality and values are not ephemeral qualities and universal healthcare is not simply an aspiration; it has to be enshrined in law. the creation of the uk nhs in 1948 was underpinned by core legal duties which required a system of public funding and delivery to follow. the mo...