Recent initiatives to improve health care quality and reduce costs have centered around payment mechanisms and IT-enabled health-information exchanges (HIEs). Such initiatives have profound influences both on providers' choices regarding health care effort levels and HIE adoption and on...

Predictive algorithms have an increasingly important role in supporting the day-to-day operations of healthcare organizations. Yet, fully realizing the value of algorithms lies critically in the opportunity to re-engineer the related processes and redefine roles in ways that make organizations...