At Cleveland Clinic, they started an initiative to find and follow up with the first 1,000 coronary bypass patients to assess their wellbeing and outcomes. It took hiring private detectives to track down some of the patients. They maintained this culture of review and continuous improvement until...
Given most people work for companies, most people are unaware of the rise in healthcare premiums since ACA passed. Companies are paying the brunt of the increase. The result of such increases include a decrease in wages or a decrease in hiring at the margin. There is no free lunch. Here'...
As todays young people begin launching their careers, they can find themselves faced with plenty of options and not a lot of time. Many industries are more competitive than ever and even an entry-level job can require years of internships, fellowships, a
These courses of study have given me a 360 degree perspective for my area of interest. Editor: So, how did you choose to manage a health carrier in re- ceivership? Gilje: At the time I was hired by the KPS Board of Directors to take the position of President of KPS, I owned a ...
high-contact essential jobs are held by Black Americans, heightening risk of exposure to COVID 19⁶ 33% Black 23% Hispanic/ Latinx are a part of the prison population (despite being 12% and 18% of the general population, respectively)⁷ Mass incarceration is a...
A thorough review of the URO’s process and verification of the program’s accreditation is the only way to qualify the service for quality. UR is a component in workers’ compensation that inevitably requires a high degree of human intervention andclinical analysis. This is due to the complexi...
The mentioned OR rescheduling issue can be seen as a subset of the bin-packing issue, with bins standing in for staffed operating rooms and items or jobs for surgeries. The objective is to reduce the weighted sum of bins used (or, equivalently, the cost of staffed operating rooms), where...
Each of the 53 experts were provided with a direct relation 20 × 20 matrix to evaluate the influence degree of an actor on the others through a pairwise comparison. For comparison, the experts expressed their opinions ranging from “no influence” to “very high influence”. The verbal ...