Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Health care management"
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Complex Care: Health, Bureaucracy, and Neo-Welfarism in Los Angeles County
(2021-07-12)Over the past 20 years, healthcare organizations in the United States have focused increasing attention on controlling costs by providing extra services and support to “the sickest and most marginalized” patients. While ... -
Crowdsourcing and Engaging Employees in Innovation: Three Field Studies
(2021-05-14)This dissertation examines how crowdsourcing ideas, which opens up the opportunity to innovate, can engage employees to solve organizational problems. Across three field studies, I investigate: employees’ responses to being ... -
Emergent Forces in Health Care Management: The Role of Patients, Foundations & Digital Technology in Shaping New Product Development
(2022-09-06)This dissertation investigates the role of emerging, external forces in shaping medical product development. Drawing on concepts from the technology innovation, nonmarket strategy, and health policy literatures, I evaluate ... -
Essays in Ethics and Health Policy
(2013-09-18)In 1999 New York enacted Kendra's Law, in memory of Kendra Webdale, a young woman who was pushed to her death in front of an oncoming train by a man with untreated schizophrenia. Under Kendra's Law a court can order a ... -
Essays in the Economics of Health Care and the Regulation of Medical Technology
(2014-06-06)The first chapter of this dissertation explores how the regulatory approval process affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. While prior studies of medical innovation under regulation have found an early mover ... -
Essays on Health Insurance Markets with Regulated Competition
(2021-11-16)This dissertation explores three issues relating to health insurance markets with regulated competition. First, I study how switching between health plans affects enrollees’ utilization of health services and their health ... -
Essays on Health Insurance: Public Opinion and Consumer Behavior
(2021-07-12)In this dissertation, I consider health insurance coverage in the United States from two perspectives. I open with a high-level analysis of trends in public opinion that underpin current political debates around health ... -
Essays on Regulation in Health Care Markets
(2021-07-12)This dissertation consists of three chapters studying the regulation of payer and provider health care markets. The first chapter studies how the geographic market definitions of the Affordable Care Act health insurance ... -
Essays on Resource Allocation in Public Health Care
(2022-11-23)Governments play a massive role in financing health care, accounting for 60% of spending worldwide. Squeezed between rising costs of medical technology and aging populations, the costs of administering public health insurance ... -
From Border Walls to Wall Street: The Impact of Institutional Change on Local Health
(2021-05-13)The aim of this dissertation is to stimulate and contribute to social epidemiology literature engaging directly with structural and political drivers of population health in the United States as they relate to current day ... -
Generalizability Methods for Estimating Causal Population Effects
(2021-07-12)Studies are often performed in samples that do not resemble the target populations relevant for policy, treatment, or other decisions. Much of the causal inference literature has focused on addressing internal validity ... -
Health Care Quality Revealed in Hospital and Physician Behavior
(2023-03-14)Improving the quality of care is a major objective of health care systems, yet its determinants remain poorly understood. Across three quasi-experimental studies, this dissertation examines how health care quality is ... -
Health System Quality Improvement Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implementation and Impact
(2022-06-06)Poor quality health systems are increasingly recognized as a major barrier to achieving universal health coverage and improved health outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa. As the extent and degree of poor-quality care has been ... -
Health Systems, Quality and Variation
(2022-06-06)Integrated health systems are becoming more important due to increasing trends toward consolidation in the midst of rapidly expanding health care reform efforts enacted by the Affordable Care Act. Consolidated health systems ... -
How do health care organizations’ characteristics affect the effectiveness of service delivery reforms?
(2023-06-01)Poor performances in efficiency and quality in health system has been a persistent problem. Provider payment reforms have been adopted globally to incentivize better efficiency and quality of care, but the results are often ... -
Implementation and Management of Information Technology in Health Care Delivery
(2021-07-12)Since the passage of the HITECH Act in 2009, the federal government has spent over $30 billion dollars in an effort to digitize the US health care delivery system. While electronic health records (EHRs) are now ubiquitous ... -
Making IT work: Essays in health IT implementation and integration
(2023-06-01)This multi-method dissertation explores organizational factors that impact implementation and advanced use of health information technologies (IT). The vast majority of healthcare organizations in the U.S. have electronic ... -
Managing the Expected: Studies on Health and Organizational Science amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2023-03-14)Modern organizations, especially health care delivery organizations, invest a significant amount of time and resources to prepare for, respond to, and resile through crises of various kinds. And yet, the COVID-19 pandemic ... -
Quality-based payment in health care: Theory and practice
(2013-10-18)Quality-based payment in healthcare—also known as pay-for-performance—is a popular policy intervention aimed at improving healthcare quality. However, there has been little theoretical work characterizing the ... -
Quasi-Experimental Health Policy Research: Evaluation of Universal Health Insurance and Methods for Comparative Effectiveness Research
(2013-10-08)This dissertation consists of two empirical papers and one methods paper. The first two papers use quasi-experimental methods to evaluate the impact of universal health insurance reform in Massachusetts (MA) and Thailand ...