Certificate of need (CON) regulations require that health care providers obtain state approval before offering a new service or expanding existing facilities. The purported goal of CON is to reduce health care costs by generating regional economies of scale and reducing redundant investments...

In the digital world, data has turn out to be a most important asset for all kinds of organization. All industries are relying on the data for their day to day operations. We are living in the era of data driven decisions. Most of the industries are generating huge amount of data, Healthcare is...

We empirically investigate the pattern of where heart attack patients are transferred between hospitals. Using 2011 Florida State Emergency Department and Inpatient Databases, we demonstrate the relative importance of three key factors in determining transfer destinations: (1) the distance...