Article
Nursing
Olga Yakusheva, Betty Rambur, Peter I. Buerhaus
Summary: This article introduces the concept of 'value-informed nursing practice', which focuses on both outcomes and the cost of care. It is a new way to envision nursing practice.
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jonathan Eden, Mario Braecklein, Jaime Ibanez, Deren Yusuf Barsakcioglu, Giovanni Di Pino, Dario Farina, Etienne Burdet, Carsten Mehring
Summary: In this review, recent technological and neuroscientific advances in human body augmentation are discussed. The authors construct a movement augmentation taxonomy, discuss how it is achieved, and propose a vision for the field. By enhancing body movements, this field has the potential to revolutionize medical and industrial applications and profoundly change human interaction with the environment.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Diwakar Gupta, Mili Mehrotra, Xiaoxu Tang
Summary: CMS has introduced several Episode-based Payment Models where hospitals are paid based on historical norms and reconciled against a target price. Hospitals may realize gains or losses from internal operations and incentivize physicians to improve quality and reduce costs by sharing gains and losses. The presence of stop-loss and stop-gain provisions can impact the optimal gainsharing function and the amount of gains and losses that hospitals share.
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Andrew D. Wilcock, Michael L. Barnett, J. Michael McWilliams, David C. Grabowski, Ateev Mehrotra
Summary: The Medicare CJR program, a national payment model for lower-extremity joint replacement, saw savings diminish over time due to hospitals' response to changing incentives. This study highlights the importance of caution in designing new alternative payment models.
JAMA INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Otorhinolaryngology
Lauren E. Miller, Neil S. Kondamuri, Roy Xiao, Vinay K. Rathi
Summary: In 2017, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services moved clinicians to MIPS, with increased requirements and thresholds in 2018. Otolaryngologists reporting as individuals in 2018 were less likely to receive positive payment adjustments compared to groups or alternative payment models. Transitioning from individual reporting to participating in alternative payment models resulted in the greatest performance score improvements.
OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD AND NECK SURGERY
(2022)
Editorial Material
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Mischa Dohler, Young-Gab Kim, Mar Gonzalez Franco, Timoni West
Summary: The Metaverse is a richly interconnected blend of digital and virtual spaces where people can interact, work, learn, and socialize, signifying a new era of the Internet characterized by immersive interaction and a profound sense of presence.
IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE
(2023)
Article
Economics
Nathan Berg, Jeong-Yoo Kim, Ilgyun Seon
Summary: This paper explores credence goods, specifically expert services, where performance-based payments can serve as a signal of the seller's ability rather than just reducing moral hazard. It shows that high-ability experts can use performance-based pricing to commit to offering larger indemnity payments or smaller bonus payments, signaling their quality to clients.
MANAGERIAL AND DECISION ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Joshua M. Liao, Lingmei Zhou, Amol S. Navathe
Summary: This study provides a nationwide description of hospitals' episode-based spending based on publicly reported CEBP measures. The findings suggest that there is variation in episode spending among different CEBP types, with opportunities for improvement in SNF care for procedural episodes. Additionally, there is low correlation and concordance between hospitals' CEBP and Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary performance.
JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Joshua M. Liao, Erkuan Wang, Ulysses Isidro, Jingsan Zhu, Deborah S. Cousins, Amol S. Navathe
Summary: The association between participation in bundled payments for medical conditions and episode outcomes varies for clinically high-risk patients versus other patients. While participation is associated with lower skilled nursing facility length of stay for frail patients, patients with advanced age, and those with prior institutional post-acute care provider utilization, it is associated with higher length of stay for disabled patients. Bundled payment participation does not have a differential impact on readmissions for high-risk groups.
Article
Oncology
Doriane Majou, Yanis Mekarnia, Barbara Martin, Roman Rouzier, Delphine Hequet
Summary: This study analyzed episode-based costs for surgery in early breast cancer patients and proposed a payment model. The findings revealed higher costs for radical surgery, longer hospitalizations, home hospitalization, and re-hospitalization. The average costs ranged from $5,268 to $7,408. Internal validation showed the model's reliability.
BULLETIN DU CANCER
(2021)
Article
Economics
Aaron L. Schwartz
Summary: Health-care providers are facing increasing scrutiny and measurement of their performance signals, with the use of shrinkage estimation to improve accuracy having the unintended consequence of blunting performance incentives. Research in the setting of hospital performance measurement for heart attack mortality shows that alternative methods such as extending the time-span of measurement can improve accuracy without reducing incentives, especially for smaller hospitals.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Medicinal
Pablo R. Arantes, Marcelo D. Poleto, Conrado Pedebos, Rodrigo Ligabue-Braun
Summary: This study aims to provide a user-friendly frontend for molecular dynamics simulations using the OpenMM toolkit on the Google Colab framework, emphasizing the use of cloud computing for educational and research purposes. By offering examples on performing MD simulations in the microsecond time scale, we aim to assist low-income research groups and promote the teaching and learning of molecular simulations within the community.
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Shreyanshu Parhi, Kanchan Joshi, Milind Akarte
Summary: This study fills the research gap by quantifying smart manufacturing performance indicators. Through a literature review methodology, potential indicators are defined, and a conceptual framework for decision-making in smart manufacturing is proposed.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Somaiieh Rokhsaritalemi, Abolghasem Sadeghi-Niaraki, Ho-San Kang, Jong-Won Lee, Soo-Mi Choi
Summary: The study proposes a ubiquitous tourist system based on context-awareness, multicriteria decision making, and augmented reality, providing hotel recommendations and information enhancement services to users, achieving personalized needs.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Hung-Jui Guo, Jonathan Z. Bakdash, Laura R. Marusich, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran
Summary: This article surveys environmental-related HMD papers with measurements from users in the field of AR and MR, reviewing the results from a 32-year span. Using a new classification method, trends over time and user feedback presence or absence are analyzed, along with subdivision of the papers into ten main categories for user assessment domains and methods. Similarities and differences among the papers' characteristics in behavioral experiments are also categorized.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
(2022)
Letter
Surgery
Andrew D. Wilcock, Michael L. Barnett, J. Michael McWilliams, David C. Grabowski, Ateev Mehrotra
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Emma E. Thomas, Helen M. Haydon, Ateev Mehrotra, Liam J. Caffery, Centaine L. Snoswell, Annie Banbury, Anthony C. Smith
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant growth in telehealth services globally, including in Australia. It is crucial to consider the long-term sustainability of telehealth post-pandemic, with a focus on developing a skilled workforce, empowering consumers, reforming funding, improving digital ecosystems, and integrating telehealth into routine care.
JOURNAL OF TELEMEDICINE AND TELECARE
(2022)
Letter
Medicine, General & Internal
Sadiq Y. Patel, Ateev Mehrotra, Haiden A. Huskamp, Lori Uscher-Pines, Ishani Ganguli, Michael L. Barnett
Summary: This cohort study investigates the trends of telemedicine and in-person outpatient visits in 2020 among a national sample of 16.7 million individuals with commercial or Medicare Advantage insurance.
JAMA INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Letter
Medicine, General & Internal
J. Michael McWilliams, Ateev Mehrotra, Ali Russo
Summary: This cohort study investigates the impact of increasing COVID-19 cases on early spending changes and how policies to limit transmission affect healthcare spending as the pandemic progresses.
JAMA INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Letter
Medicine, General & Internal
Tara Jain, Ateev Mehrotra
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Sunita M. Desai, Sonali Shambhu, Ateev Mehrotra
Summary: Insurers and policy makers have created health care price transparency websites to reduce spending but have faced low use. An advertising campaign in New Hampshire led to a significant increase in website visits, but did not result in more consumers choosing lower-cost providers. The limited success of price transparency tools in reducing health care spending may be due to structural factors limiting consumers' ability to use price information.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Sadiq Y. Patel, Ateev Mehrotra, Haiden A. Huskamp, Lori Uscher-Pines, Ishani Ganguli, Michael Lawrence Barnett
Summary: During the pandemic, there was a significant increase in the use of telemedicine, but there were notable variations in usage across different populations and specialties. Telemedicine use was lower in communities with higher poverty rates and some medical specialties. Telemedicine was more commonly used for certain common conditions, and its usage for these conditions was associated with smaller decreases in total weekly visits during the pandemic.
Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Ateev Mehrotra, R. Sacha Bhatia, Centaine L. Snoswell
JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
(2021)
Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Ateev Mehrotra, Alok Nimgaonkar, Barak Richman
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Andrew D. Wilcock, Lee H. Schwamm, Jose R. Zubizarreta, Kori S. Zachrison, Lori Uscher-Pines, Jessica V. Richard, Ateev Mehrotra
Summary: This study found that patients with acute ischemic stroke treated at hospitals with telestroke capacity were more likely to receive reperfusion treatment and had lower 30-day mortality. There were no differences in days spent living in the community following discharge or in spending.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Bill Wang, Ateev Mehrotra, Ari B. Friedman
Summary: Despite reducing lower-acuity emergency department visits, the impact of urgent care centers was found to be small. Each 37 additional urgent care center visits were associated with a reduction of a single lower-acuity ED visit.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Annie Banbury, Anthony C. Smith, Ateev Mehrotra, Matthew Page, Liam J. Caffery
Summary: This study explores the factors contributing to the variation in telehealth adoption in Queensland, Australia. It found that metropolitan areas with more telehealth use had greater investment, higher population referral areas, well-developed communication strategies, and better understanding of the value proposition of telehealth. In rural areas, telehealth activity was influenced by onboarding processes, clinician willingness, strategic challenges, and primary care activity.
JOURNAL OF TELEMEDICINE AND TELECARE
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
David M. Levine, Ateev Mehrotra
Summary: This study revealed that searching for health information on the internet was associated with slight increases in diagnostic accuracy but not with triage accuracy. Older adults, women, individuals with poorer health status, and those with more than two chronic diseases showed better performance in correct diagnosis.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
David M. Levine, Pragya Kakani, Ateev Mehrotra
Summary: The study found that tailored text messages were not effective in helping new Medicaid beneficiaries visit primary care within 120 days, but there was a slight increase in emergency department use within 1 year.
NPJ DIGITAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Lori Uscher-Pines, Jessica Sousa, Kori Zachrison, Amy Guzik, Lee Schwamm, Ateev Mehrotra
JOURNAL OF STROKE & CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES
(2020)