Business Coalitions on Health Care

Building health care system capacity: training health care professionals in disaster preparedness health care coalitions.

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to learn from the experiences of well-established, disaster preparedness-focused health care coalition (HCC) leaders for the purpose of identifying opportunities for improved delivery of disaster-health principles to health professionals involved in HCCs. This report describes current HCC education and training needs, challenges, and promising practices. METHODS ...

Health care coalitions: the evolution of a movement.

A tale of two overhangs: the nexus of financial sector and sovereign credit risks

There has emerged in the Western economies a strong nexus between the credit risks of fi nancial sectors and their sovereigns. We argue that this phenomenon can be understood in the context of two debt overhang problems: one affecting the fi nancial sector due to its under-capitalisation following the crisis of 2007-08; the second, affecting the non-fi nancial sector, whose incentives are crowd...

Arranging Cooperative Business Activities in Dynamic Coalitions of Rational Actors

The paper addresses cooperation issues in dynamic distributed business process management enabled by the coalitions of task performing economically rational agents. Tasks are understood as partially ordered sets of activities performed in interaction between participants according to a defined set of rules in order to achieve a common goal. Agents represent intelligent actors having their roles...

What business are we in? The emergence of health as the business of health care.

O January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. bankruptcy court. No doubt some people were surprised by this filing, because they grew up at a time when bright yellow boxes of film accompanied every family vacation and celebration. Those who were paying more attention offered many explanations for the bankruptcy. Central among...