Books

Focus Area

W. B. Rouse & N. Serban (2014). Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Healthcare. MIT Press

Griffin, J., P. Keskinocak, and J. Swann (2013). “Allocating Scarce Healthcare Resources in Developing Countries,” Handbook of Healthcare Operations Management: Methods and Applications (International Series in Operations Research and Management Science), B. Denton (editor) and F. Hillier (senior editor), Springer.

W. B. Rouse & N. Serban (2014). Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Healthcare. MIT Press

Ayer, T., P. Keskinocak, and J. Swann (2014). “OR/MS Research in Public Health,” Tutorials in Operations Research, INFORMS, A. Newman (editor) and C. Smith (series editor). (Invited) Under review.

Data is the new resource, and unlike money or oil sharing doesn't deplete it.

Kairos Future
Information is the lifeblood of modern medicine, [and] health information technology is destined to be its circulatory system.

David Blumenthal
Equal opportunity to be healthy is a right not a privilege, and therefore, healthcare is a common good, not a market commodity.

Rouse & Serban
Equal opportunity to be healthy is the attainment by all people at the highest possible level of physical and mental well-being that biological limitations permit.

Braveman & Gruskin
"We use the CT scan because it’s a great defense," says the CEO of another hospital not far from Stamford. "For example, if anyone has fallen or done anything around their head — hell, if they even say the word head — we do it to be safe. We can’t be sued for doing too much."

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