{"product_id":"9781119300946","title":"Handbook of Healthcare Analytics Theoretical Minimum for Conducting 21st Century Research on Healthcare Operations","description":"\u003ch3\u003eWiley Series in Operations Research and Management Science\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eHandbook of Healthcare Analytics\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTheoretical Minimum for Conducting 21st Century Research on Healthcare Operations\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTinglong Dai | Sridhar Tayur\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eBusiness \u0026amp; Economics \/ Management Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow can analytics scholars and healthcare professionals access the most exciting and important healthcare topics and tools for the 21st century?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors Tinglong Dai and Sridhar Tayur, aided by a team of internationally acclaimed experts, have curated this timely volume to help newcomers and seasoned researchers alike to rapidly comprehend a diverse set of thrusts and tools in this rapidly growing cross-disciplinary field. The \u003ci\u003eHandbook\u003c\/i\u003e covers a wide range of macro-, meso- and micro-level thrusts—such as market design, competing interests, global health, personalized medicine, residential care and concierge medicine, among others—and structures what has been a highly fragmented research area into a coherent scientific discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe handbook also provides an easy-to-comprehend introduction to five essential research tools—Markov decision process, game theory and information economics, queueing games, econometric methods, and data science—by illustrating their uses and applicability on examples from diverse healthcare settings, thus connecting tools with thrusts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe primary audience of the Handbook includes analytics scholars interested in healthcare and healthcare practitioners interested in analytics. This \u003ci\u003eHandbook\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eInstills analytics scholars with a way of thinking that incorporates behavioral, incentive, and policy considerations in various healthcare settings. This change in perspective—a shift in gaze away from narrow, local and one-off operational improvement efforts that do not replicate, scale or remain sustainable—can lead to new knowledge and innovative solutions that healthcare has been seeking so desperately.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFacilitates collaboration between healthcare experts and analytics scholar to frame and tackle their pressing concerns through appropriate modern mathematical tools designed for this very purpose.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe handbook is designed to be accessible to the independent reader, and it may be used in a variety of settings, from a short lecture series on specific topics to a semester-long course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTinglong Dai, PhD,\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Operations Management and Business Analytics at Johns Hopkins University. A recipient of numerous awards, including Johns Hopkins Discovery Award, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award and Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Best Healthcare Paper Award, his research spans across healthcare analytics, marketing\/operations interfaces, and artificial intelligence. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSridhar Tayur, PhD,\u003c\/b\u003e is Ford Distinguished Research Chair and Professor of Operations Management at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. He has been elected as Member of National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and Distinguished Fellow of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM). 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