Key factors that a hospital finance leader should focus on when considering a potential co-management agreement with physicians, in which the physicians are compensated at fair market value, include: Fee structure of the agreement. The quality metrics that will be used. Benchmarking to set appropriate targets for metrics. Historical performance against the metrics. Legal guidelines regarding su...

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Closeness and betweenness are among the most important metrics in social network analysis. They are essential to the evaluation of various research problems such as viral marketing, network stability and network traffic predictions, which play an important role in social media research. However, both of these metrics are expensive to compute. We propose an efficient online algorithm framework t...

Dukhanin and colleagues’ taxonomy of metrics for patient engagement at the organizational and system levels has great potential for supporting more careful and useful evaluations of this ever-growing phenomenon. This commentary highlights the central importance to the taxonomy of metrics assessing the extent of meaningful participation in decision-making by patients, consumers and community mem...

The increasing use of digital marketing in the hospital sector is accompanied by soaring costs allocated for marketing. Hospital management must determine appropriate steps and types measurement to evaluate magnitude impact strategy used on overall performance. This study examines evaluation stage model metrics that can be applied hospitals. literature review was conducted browsing articles usi...