信息管理与商业智能系学术讲座

时    间：2023年4月4日（周二）13：30-14：30

主持人：复旦大学 管理学院 信息管理与商业智能系 李文文博士

线   下：李达三楼105室

线   上：腾讯会议号  974 973 095   密码123456

题   目：Modeling the Evolution of Interhospital Transfer in the Digital Age:A Longitudinal Network Analysis

摘   要：

Interhospital transfers aim to provide super-specialty care and maintain patients’ optimal health by transferring the patient to another hospital facility. As a complex undertaking, the interhospital transfer involves a multitude of factors that influence transfer formation, and transfer relationships among hospitals evolve over time. Although an extensive body of literature exists on factors determining where patients get transferred, less attention has been paid to understanding how interhospital transfer networks evolve and what important factors influence the evolution process. In this study, we empirically model the evolution process of the interhospital transfer network using a stochastic network modeling approach and identify key factors determining the network evolution. In particular, we consider digital health technologies that have great potential to assist coordinated healthcare delivery. Using data from multiple databases on 178 hospitals over five years in the State of Florida, we find that both exogenous factors and endogenous network interactions influence the evolution of the interhospital transfer network. Besides identified factors, such as efficiency, distance, and relationship, digital health technologies significantly impact interhospital transfer networks' tie formation during the evolution process. Our study contributes to the literature on patient routing in healthcare operations by uncovering mechanisms of the evolution of interhospital transfer networks.

信息管理与商业智能系

2023-3-31