Editorial: Efficiency in healthcare delivery

Paths towards efficiency in healthcare.

Editorial Cardiac work and efficiency

See article by Kiriazis and Gibbs [1] (pages 111 –119) two parts, activation and basal oxygen consumption. The in this issue. first depends on excitation–contraction coupling and is proportional to cardiac contractility. For the quiescent muscle the PVA and the oxygen cost of activation both are zero. The remaining part results from all other processes 1. Work output and efficiency of the heart...

Guest Editorial Energy-Efficiency in Optical Networks

THE increasing concern for environmental and cost issues has made energy efficiency in telecom networks an important theme. According to a recent report [1], today’s networks are wasting a lot of energy by consuming 10,000 times more energy than what is really needed. The Internet currently consumes about 0.4% of the total electricity in broadband-enabled countries and is foreseen to quickly re...

Reinventing healthcare delivery

In this thought paper, Professor Steven Spear argues that the way to achieve great operational performance and value has often been misunderstood. In order to ensure that good people and good science are facilitated, rather than overwhelmed, by systems, leaders have to expand their attention from ‘what individuals do’ to ‘how the pieces come together’. High quality care and great performance in...

China’s Healthcare Delivery System

The economic approach of comparative and historical institutional analysis (Aoki 2001, Greif 2006) has virtually never been used in theoretical studies of healthcare incentives. This paper seeks to help fill this gap by exploring the explanatory power of such an approach for understanding incentives in China’s healthcare delivery system. It focuses on positive analysis of why China’s health sys...