Today there is mixed evidence that health IT decreases costs and/or improves care quality in the US. Some of the same factors that have driven delays in realizing the benefits from IT investments in other industries (i.e., time consuming process changes) are apparent in the U.S. healthcare industry, which is only now digitizing its fundamental patient data, the electronic health record. The hea...

At present, the whole world is transitioning to fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, representing transition digital, fully automated environments, and cyber-physical systems. 4.0 comprises many different technologies innovations, which are being implemented in sectors. In this review, we focus on healthcare medical domain, where revolutionized. The ecosystem moving towards Healthcare...

Globally, healthcare service delivery faces many challenges that transcend regional and national boundaries. Population growth, increased life expectancy, increasingly stringent regulatory and compliance requirements, and demand for more and better access to quality care are driving up healthcare costs and creating a chronic shortage of skilled professionals. Continuing to deliver healthcare se...

Across the world, the healthcare industry is under tremendous pressure to meet the needs of patients who are no longer passive consumers but active participants; of physicians who are struggling to meet the needs of these patients; and of insurance providers that have to streamline payments and healthcare models to align with emerging healthcare delivery and financing models. In such challengin...

This thesis studies contemporary challenges arising at the market, system, and organization levels in the healthcare industry, and develops novel frameworks that allow us to better understand cost and resource allocation for strategic decision making in healthcare settings. The U.S. healthcare industry is going through a massive transformation process due to the increasing industry consolidatio...