Re: Outcomes Research in Managed Care

[joseph . e . villa]

Greetings, all!

I've been part of a research team that has been using agent based
simulation to understand the economic impacts of electronic commerce on
healthcare. Although we are not on the "medical" side yet, we envision that
our simulation methods will eventually have great applicability in this
domain.

To Ken's question: Yes. There are a number of "traditional" models for
looking at the economics of managed care. Outcomes research is the
foundation of this area of work. Some folks refer to it as "cost
effectiveness" research. More recent, and more interesting work, includes
outcomes measured in economic and "quality adjusted life years".

Cheers,

Joseph.

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kcline @ c3i.saic.com (Ken Cline)  (Mailed by: kcline @ c3i.saic.com (Ken
Cline) @ internet)
04/22/98 07:09 PM EDT

To:   address@hidden  @ internet
cc:    (bcc: Joseph E. Villa)
Subject:  Re: Outcomes Research in Managed Care


On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 address@hidden wrote:
> Dear Members of the Swarm Community:
>
> I'm wondering in the context of economic experiments
> using Swarm whether anyone's considered issues surrounding
> managed care -- particularly concerning whether Swarm
> could be used in modeling treatment outcomes and the ways
> governments pay for those treatments -- please let me know
> what y'all think and also whether anyone is pursuing this
> line of inquiry.
Interesting... Out of curiousity, and not being an economist
myself, are there accepted and/or "traditional" models that
focus on the economics managed care?
Ken.
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