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Incentive Compatibility and Efficiency in the Contractual Insurer-Provider Relationship - Economic Theory and Practical Implications: The Case of North Carolina
Schmid, Andreas - 2007
eignet. Ein Exkurs zum amerikanischen Gesundheitswesen vermittelt dem Leser den n?tigen Hintergrund. Eine kritische …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485586
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Auf der Suche nach operativer Exzellenz im Krankenhaus: Logistik als Rationalisierungsinstrument und strategischer Wettbewerbsfaktor in einem dynamischen Marktumfeld
Walther, Markus - 2005
Das Gesundheitswesen in Deutschland steht vor gravierenden Veränderungen: Die gesellschaftlichen Aufgabenstellungen … Gesundheitswesen allgemein und insbe-sondere im Krankenhaussektor nachhaltig verändern wird. Treiber des Wandels sind demographische … Gesetzgeber einen Quantensprung der Ökonomisierung eingeleitet, der den Paradigmawechsel im Gesundheitswesen katalysiert und den …
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On Hospital Competition: Quality, Efficiency, and Ownership
Herr, Annika - 2009
In this research we will focus on three topics which we think are particularly relevant for hospital competition: i … to detect and reduce inefficiencies in this market. Therefore, hospital inefficiency is one main aspect in our research … (Chapters 3 and 4). Our research sheds some light on market outcomes by hospital ownership type given their respective …
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Corporate responsibility as a strategic goal : open source healthcare appliances in developing countries
Ambler, Tony (contributor); Duvic, Robert Conrad (contributor) - 2010
$10 dollars a day. There is an alarming need to deliver quality healthcare services and products to developing countries …. The healthcare industry for developing countries is estimated to be $202 million and growing exponentially. However … how open source methodologies can be utilized to improve healthcare in developing countries while increasing shareholder …
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
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Analytical response time estimation in parallel relational database systems
Tomov, N.; Dempster, Euan W.; Williams, M. H.; Burger, A.; … - 2004
Techniques for performance estimation in parallel database systems are well established for parameters such as throughput, bottlenecks and resource utilisation. However, response time estimation is a complex activity which is difficult to predict and has attracted research for a number of years....
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Analysis of Make(Repair)-to-stock Queues with State-dependent Arrival Rates
Liang, William Kun - 2011
In this thesis, we study the repair shop scheduling problem(repair-to-stock) and the production/inventory system pricing and production scheduling problem(make-to-stock). For both types of problems, we compare the performance of different scheduling policies. For the make-to-stock type problem,...
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Optimal Pricing for a Service Facility with Congestion Penalties
Maoui, Idriss - 2006
We consider the optimal pricing problem in a service facility in order to maximize its long-run average profit per unit time. We model the facility as a queueing process that may havefinite or infinite capacity. Customers are admitted into the system if it is not full and if they are willing to...
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Decision Making with Uncertainty: Applications to Queueing Theory and Market Research.
Potoff, Matthew L. - 2009
In the first section, a firm with two servers must decide how to dynamically route arriving customers and allocate servers to two separate queues. The servers may work together or separately, and we provide insights into how the firm should optimally route customers and assign servers to queues....
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Optimierung der Personaleinsatzplanung in Call Centern - Theoretische Systematisierung und empirische ?berpr?fung
Huber, Kathrin - 2006
Der Call Center-Markt hat Ende der 90er Jahre und Anfang des neuen Jahrtausends einen rasanten Aufschwung mit zum Teil sehr hohen Ums?tzen erfahren, was zur Folge hatte, dass immer mehr Auskunftsdienstleister auf dem Markt kamen. Als Konsequenz daraus resultiert nun eine versch?rfte...
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