Motivated by a collaborative study with one of the most comprehensive ocular imaging programs in the United States, we investigate the underlying three-way tradeoffs among operational, clinic, and financial considerations in physicians’ decisions about ordering imaging tests. Laboratory tests...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Framework Development -- Overview of the Handbook -- Reference -- Glossary of Terms -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Organizational Structure -- 1.1 Introduction to the Healthcare Industry -- 1.2 Academic Medical Centers -- 1.3...

The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in augmenting healthcare is expected to grow substantially in future decades. Current research in medical AI focuses on developing, validating, and implementing point-level AI applications in an ad-hoc manner. To harness the full power of AI to improve...

A new generation of healthcare operations management (HOM) scholars is studying timely healthcare topics (e.g., organization design, design of delivery, and organ transplantation) using contemporary methodological tools (e.g., econometrics, information economics, and queuing games). A...