‘Sathkaara’ for Inter ICU Patient Transfers

A case report in health information exchange for inter-organizational patient transfers.

OBJECTIVE To provide a case report of barriers and promoters to implementing a health information exchange (HIE) tool that supports patient transfers between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. METHODS A multi-disciplinary team conducted semi-structured telephone and in-person interviews in a purposive sample of HIE organizational informants and providers in New York City who implemente...

Modeling and Simulation Analyses of Healthcare Delivery Operations for Inter-Hospital Patient Transfers

Inter-hospital transfers of patients for different elements of care have been increasingly used as a common strategy for providing quality healthcares through sharing limited resources worldwide. In this paper, the authors study the problem of healthcare delivery operations for inter-hospital patient transfers motivated by a real-world case within the South East Local Health Integration Network...

Bequests, Inter Vivos Transfers, and Wealth Distribution

This paper extends the heterogeneous agent overlapping generations model with bequests in Nishiyama (2000) by adding two-way intergenerational altruism and inter vivos transfers. Calibrating the model to the U.S. economy, the paper measures time preference and intergenerational altruism consistent with the economy¶s capital-output ratio and the sizes of intergenerational transfers. In the model...

Descent Rules and Inter Vivos Transfers

Challenges to inter-departmental coordination of patient transfers: A workflow perspective

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to identify challenges to inter-departmental coordination activities that affect patient transfer workflow and to provide socio-technical requirements for the design of technologies to better support patient transfer workflow. DESIGN We conducted our study in two clinical and one non-clinical department at a major academic hospital. We utilized qualitati...