Organizations across industry sectors continue to develop data resources and utilize analytic techniques to enhance efficiencies in their operations. One example of this is evident as Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) enhance their care and disease management initiatives through the utilization of population segmentation techniques. This article proposes a classification system for population s...

M any parents of children with special health care needs, myself included, have not embraced managed care as the best system of care for our children. For populations with special needs, managed care is new and unproven, and seems terribly risky when the stakes are so high. When our children’s health system fails, it wreaks havoc on our entire family structures and our daily lives. However, we ...

The failed merger between Geisinger Health System and Hershey Medical Center is an instructive case study. The advantages of merging include: 1) support of financially threatened academic health centers, 2) access to greater capital, and 3) integration of managed care principles in the delivery system. Nevertheless, if the leadership of the new organization fails to deal effectively with the in...

In the modern supplier–customer relationship, Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is used to monitor the customer’s inventory replenishment. Despite the large amount of literature on the subject, it is difficult to clearly define VMI and the main associated processes. Beyond the short-term pull system inventory replenishment often studied in academic works, partners have to share their vision of the...

The use of Information and communication technology (ICT) in supply chain collaboration has received substantial attention among researchers and practitioners. The multiple aspects of ICT offer a wide selection of research and application arenas. This paper discusses information sharing and takes a particular focus on the level of data integration when ICT is applied to support the replenishmen...

This article addresses survival strategies of academic health centers (AHCs) in responding to market pressures and government reforms. Using six case studies of AHCs, the study links strategic changes in structure and management to managerial role performance. Utilizing Mintzberg's classification of work roles, the roles of liaison, monitor, entrepreneur, and resource allocator were found to be...