Product definition for healthcare contracting.

Product definition for healthcare contracting: an overview of approaches to measuring hospital output with reference to the UK internal market.

OBJECTIVE In many industrialised countries, health care third party payers are moving towards contracted provision arrangements with suppliers of hospital care. Essential to such a process is a standard approach to quantifying the care provided. This paper aims to outline the possible approaches to hospital product definition for the UK National Health Service, and recommends appropriate furthe...

Contracting for Product Support under Information Asymmetry

Slice Volume Contracting Diffeomorphisms on Product Manifolds

Given a closed connected Riemannian manifold M and a connected Riemannian manifold N , we study slice, i.e. M × {z}, z ∈ N , volume contracting diffeomorphisms on the product M ×N . Our main theorem shows that in the presence of certain cohomological condition on M and N such diffeomorphisms must map a slice diffeomorphically onto another slice and are therefore slice volume preserving. As a fi...

Reliability or Inventory? Contracting Strategies for After-Sales Product Support

Traditional sourcing arrangements for after-sales support of capital-intensive products such as airplanes, weapons systems, and manufacturing equipment have centered around physical assets. Typically, customers would pay the supplier of maintenance and repair services (usually the product manufacturer) for the resources, such as spare parts, that were needed to maintain the products. In recent ...

Contracting Out Non-State Providers to Provide Primary Healthcare Services in Tanzania: Perceptions of Stakeholders

Background In the attempt to move towards universal health coverage (UHC), many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are actively seeking to contract-out non-state providers (NSPs) to deliver health services to a specified population. Research on contracting-out has focused more on the impact of contracting-out than on the actual processes underlying the intervention and contextual factors ...