a new theory of life

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. ― Albert Einstein

  • Could everything be a part of an engineered social experiment?
Cross-disciplinary research / Health economics / Research

Self-reported Health Outcomes (1) : Summary Statistics

06/17/2016 1 Comment

In many health economics and outcomes research studies, patient outcomes are typically measured by three general indicators – morality rate, length of hospital stay, and xx-day re-hospitalization rate with xx varying …

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Research

Back To The Start Where It Has All Begun

05/20/2016 0 Comment

I was a bit embarrassed today when a recruiter asked me for a recent writing sample. I was embarrassed to know that I have no publications to show for besides tons …

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Health economics / Research

International Standard for Patient Outcomes

05/19/2016 1 Comment
International Standard for Patient Outcomes

Michael E. Porter Ph.D. M.B.A., Stefan Larsson, M.D., Ph.D., and Thomas H. Lee, M.D. recently published an article titled ” Standardizing Patient Outcomes Measurement” on NEJM. A few years ago, Porter published a …

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Economics / Health economics

A Note on Value in Health Care

05/02/2016 0 Comment

Many days of researching on the topic of value of health and value in health care has resulted in a much deeper understanding in both concepts and the methodologies of measuring and …

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Discovering health effects on marginal utility of consumptions and the differences in demand for health across income groups

04/25/2016 0 Comment

Further improvements on the algorithm allows me to develop marginal analysis and visualizations on the effects of wealth and health on total expected utility from optimal consumption, saving, and health spending. …

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Cross-disciplinary research / Data Science / Economics / Health economics / Research

Creating analytical tools in R

04/23/2016 0 Comment

After searching for R packages that could quickly generate demonstrative numerical examples for “global optima” in multi-dimensional optimization with constraints, I decided to write the code myself with the hope that it might be a quicker option. This option …

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Cross-disciplinary research / Data Science / Economics / Research

EconCodex 0.1

04/21/2016 1 Comment

It was nice to have EconCodex.org up and running. Some recent updates on where I would like it to go: it will be a site where open source analytical tools …

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Cross-disciplinary research / Research

Milestone 0.2

04/18/2016 0 Comment

Completed course 3 and 4 of 10 in the Data Science Specialisation from Johns Hopkins University in the past a couple of weeks – another milestone towards my plan to …

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A Lecture on Healthcare Economics from MIT

02/27/2016 0 Comment

Below is a lecture on Healthcare Economics by Professor Jonathan Gruber from MIT. In this lecture, he talked about health care market from an economic perspective why it fails to behave …

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Economics

In search of a theory of life

02/26/2016 0 Comment

Reading Becker’s papers and his life had a real impact on me. It is not only intellectual, but an emotional one too. When I saw him teaching Human Capital Theory …

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