Value-based learning healthcare systems : integrative modeling and simulation / Bernard P. Zeigler [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zeigler, Bernard P., 1940- author.

Series:

Healthcare technologies series.

Healthcare technologies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Python (Computer program language).

Decision making--Mathematical models.

Decision making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stevenage, England : Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2018.

Summary:

This book presents an innovative, unique and holistic approach to modeling and simulation approaches in healthcare management. From system architecture to modeling methodology, this book shows how to improve patient health and costs of care via the design and implementation of an efficient infrastructure.

Contents:

Achieving value-based healthcare - increasing quality, reducing cost, and spreading access - has proven to be extremely challenging, in part due to research that is siloed and largely focused on singular risk factors, ineffective care coordination resulting from service fragmentation, and costly unintended consequences of reform that have emerged due to the complexity of healthcare systems. Understanding the behavior of the overall system is becoming a major concern among healthcare managers and decision-makers intent on increasing value for their systems. This book fills a gap in the literature that is becoming more evident as reform efforts proliferate: a holistic Modeling and Simulation (M&S) approach to value-based healthcare within a framework that enables designing, testing and implementing concepts to integrate resource allocations, health phenomenon dynamics, individual behavior, and population dynamics. It presents a pathways-based efficient coordination of care model involving all stakeholders including patients, providers, care deliverers, managers, and payers. It shows how M&S can help design a better service infrastructure and describes the information technologies that are necessary to implement it successfully. It also presents global and national healthcare perspectives from Europe, USA, Asia and Africa, as well as research directions needed to realize the value-based M&S healthcare vision.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-78561-327-8

OCLC:

1078570168