(Wiley Series in Operations Research and Management Science) 1st Edition
by Sridhar Tayur (Editor), Tinglong Dai (Editor)
How
can analytics scholars and healthcare professionals access the most
exciting and important healthcare topics and tools for the 21st century?
Editors
Tinglong Dai and Sridhar Tayur, aided by a team of internationally
acclaimed experts, have curated this timely volume to help newcomers and
seasoned researchers alike to rapidly comprehend a diverse set of
thrusts and tools in this rapidly growing cross-disciplinary field. The Handbook
covers a wide range of macro-, meso- and micro-level thrusts—such as
market design, competing interests, global
health, personalized medicine, residential care and concierge medicine,
among others—and structures what has been a highly fragmented research
area into a coherent scientific discipline.
The
handbook also provides an easy-to-comprehend introduction to five
essential research tools—Markov decision process, game theory and
information economics, queueing games, econometric methods, and data
science—by illustrating their uses and applicability on examples from
diverse healthcare settings, thus connecting tools with thrusts.
The
primary audience of the Handbook includes analytics scholars interested
in healthcare and healthcare practitioners interested in analytics.
This Handbook:
- Instills
analytics scholars with a way of thinking that incorporates behavioral,
incentive, and policy considerations in various healthcare settings.
This change in perspective—a shift in gaze away from narrow, local and
one-off operational improvement efforts that do not replicate, scale or
remain sustainable—can lead to new knowledge and innovative solutions
that healthcare has been seeking so desperately.
- Facilitates
collaboration between healthcare experts and analytics scholar to frame
and tackle their pressing concerns through appropriate modern
mathematical tools designed for this very purpose.
The
handbook is designed to be accessible to the independent reader, and it
may be used in a variety of settings, from a short lecture series on
specific topics to a semester-long course.
