Health PhD candidate Mohammad Pulok has recently presented a summary of his PhD papers at the University of Toronto for the March Canadian Centre for Health Economics Seminar. Mohammad’s PhD uses horizontal inequity to conduct the fairness of Medicare healthcare services in the era of greater private healthcare financing in Australia. The presentation outlined the
Health IT News has published David Jonas’s article on their online magazine. In this article Mr Jonas highlights that there is a strong case for digital health research and development that will improve individuals’ and communities’ health and well being, and this can advance the Australian economy by helping to enable a more connected, transparent and competitive
The 10th Health Services and Policy Research Conference was held from 1-3 November 2017 at Surfers Paradise Marriott on the Gold Coast. The conference theme was “Shifting priorities: balancing acute and primary care services”. The conference was presented by the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand and hosted by the Australian Centre
Chronic conditions can be costly but also preventable as well as predictable. We develop a model to predict in the short term (2-3 years) the onset of one or more chronic conditions. Five chronic conditions are considered: heart disease, stroke, diabetes, hypertension and cancer. Predictions are made on the basis of standard demographic/socio-economic variables, risk
Governments as well as health and accident compensation insurers are grappling to improve health outcomes while keeping spiralling costs under control. These seemingly irreconcilable goals require a careful balance of policy to help stem the tide of ever increasing costs in the health industry. Dr Uma Srinivasan CMC Insurance Solutions CMC Lead Scientist Keywords: Health insurance,
Srinivasan, U. “Anomalies Detection in Healthcare Services” Using several practical examples of cost and quality-of-care outliers, the author presents a framework to detect outliers and anomalies in healthcare services. Author(s): Srinivasan, U. View Paper
Speaker: Le (Lyla) Zhang, Macquarie Graduate School of Management Seminar Date: Tuesday July 25 12:00pm Brief abstract: Health care is a credence good, and its market is plagued by asymmetric information. In this study, we use a laboratory experiment to investigate whether a two-part tariff pricing (TPT) and a separation of prescription and treatment activities (SPD) can mitigate the