Reconfiguring health systems

Academic Health Systems' Third Curve: Population Health Improvement.

Spurred by a rapidly changing health care landscape, many academic health systems are reconfiguring to move

Reconfiguration planning for heterogeneous self-reconfiguring robots

Current research in self-reconfiguring robots focuses predominantly on systems of identical modules. However, allowing modules of varying types, with different sensors, for example, is of practical interest. In this paper, we propose the development of an algorithmic basis for heterogeneous self-reconfiguring systems. We demonstrate algorithmic feasibility by presenting O(n) time centralized an...

A characterization of the reconfiguration space of self-reconfiguring robotic systems

Preparing to succeed in a retail healthcare environment.

Health systems should be willing and able to engage in retail health care, given increasing incentives and opportunities for consumers to shop around for care. Understanding seven dimensions of retail care, and assessing the competitive landscape and the associated risk, can help health systems prepare to succeed in a retail healthcare environment. Health systems then can undertake a focused re...

Self-reconfiguring Robots: Successes and Challenges

We wish to create versatile robots by using selfreconfiguration: hundreds of small modules autonomously organize and reorganize as geometric structures to best fit the terrain on which the robot has to move, the shape of the obiect the robot has to manipulate, or the sensing needs for the given task. Self-reconfiguration allows large collections of small robots to actively organize as the most ...