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 …
Back To The Start Where It Has All Begun
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 …
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 …
A Note on Value in Health Care
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 …
Discovering health effects on marginal utility of consumptions and the differences in demand for health across income groups
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. …
Creating analytical tools in R
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 …
EconCodex 0.1
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 …
Milestone 0.2
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 …
A Lecture on Healthcare Economics from MIT
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 …
In search of a theory of life
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 …