Public reporting of medical treatment outcomes is being widely adopted by policymakers in an effort to increase quality transparency and improve alignment between patient choices and provider capabilities. We examine the soundness of this approach by studying the effects of quality transparency...

This brief article discusses the important role quality transparency plays in the healthcare sector. It also describes some of the challenges faced by policymakers in improving transparency, and outlines a few solutions that they could apply

Telemedical Physician Triage (TPT) is an example of a Hierarchical Knowledge-Based Service System (HKBSS), in which a second level of decision agent (telemedical physician) renders a decision on cases referred to him/her by the primary level agents (triage nurses). Managing the...

Problem Definition: We address two key questions faced by patients, physicians and policy makers: (1) how do different types of patients benefit differently from elite surgeons, and (2) how can outcome data be used to achieve better health care at both the individual and social levels?...