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Increasing or decreasing one results in changes to one or both of the other two. For example, a policy that increases access to health services would lower quality of health care and/or increase cost. The desired state of the triangle, high access and quality with low cost represents value in a health care system. [3]
This study sought to estimate income, money price, and time price elasticities of demand for medical care. [7] [8] Another important study was the Oregon Health Insurance in the late 2000s and also estimated the role of public health provision on healthcare demand and was led by Katherine Baicker and Amy Finkelstein. [9]
The health management system (HMS) is an evolutionary medicine regulative process proposed by Nicholas Humphrey [1] [2] in which actuarial assessment of fitness and economic-type cost–benefit analysis determine the body's regulation of its physiology and health.
Health administration, healthcare administration, healthcare management or hospital management is the field relating to leadership, management, and administration of public health systems, health care systems, hospitals, and hospital networks in all the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors.
Cost-effectiveness analysis is often used in the field of health services, where it may be inappropriate to monetize health effect. Typically the CEA is expressed in terms of a ratio where the denominator is a gain in health from a measure (years of life, premature births averted, sight-years gained) and the numerator is the cost associated ...
Health care analytics is the health care analysis activities that can be undertaken as a result of data collected from four areas within healthcare: (1) claims and cost data, (2) pharmaceutical and research and development (R&D) data, (3) clinical data (such as collected from electronic medical records (EHRs)), and (4) patient behaviors and preferences data (e.g. patient satisfaction or retail ...
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Cost-shifting is a situation where one group of payers overpays costs for a good or a service for another group, which in total pays less than the first one. This problem originates in hospitals. They need to pay for treatment and staff performing it. Hospitals need to balance their costs and incomes.