@article{a75b17a76813430882e44cdc7a63716d,
title = "The strategic value of big data analytics in health care policy-making",
abstract = "This article describes how the metrics that are used to gauge acceptable versus inadequate care have spurred debates among health care administrators and scholars. Specifically, they argue that the use of readmissions as a quality-of-care metric may reduce patients' safety. Consequently, the new well-intended policies may prove ineffective, or even worse, yield disappointing results. While the discussions over the advantages and disadvantages of the new policies are based more on conjectures rather than on evidence, analytics provides a vehicle to measure the effectiveness of such overarching strategies. In this effort, the authors analyze large volumes of hospital encounters data before and after the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to show how overlooking some aspects of a problem may lead to unexpected outcomes. The authors conclude that the feedback provided by big data analytics can be used by the government and organization policymakers to obtain a better understanding of loopholes and to propose more effective policies in prospective endeavors.",
keywords = "Affordable Care Act, Big Data Analytics, Ecological Rationality, Hospital Readmission Reduction Program Rational Choice Theory",
author = "Zolbanin, {Hamed M.} and Dursun Delen and Sharma, {Sushil K.}",
note = "Funding Information: Sushil Sharma is currently an associate dean and a professor of computer information systems (CIS) in the Miller College of Business at Ball State University. Dr. Sharma has co-authored/edited/co-edited twelve (12) books and published over ninety (90) refereed research papers in the most reputed national and international MIS and management journals. In addition, he has published forty-five (45) refereed chapters in various books and has presented and published over 135 papers in various national and international conferences. Dr. Sharma{\textquoteright}s research has appeared in several highly ranked journals in the MIS field, including Decision Support Systems, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, Journal of Information Privacy & Security (JIPS), Electronic Commerce Research Journal, and Information Management and Computer Security. His primary teaching and research interests are in e-commerce, computer-mediated communications, community and social informatics, information systems security, e-government, ERP systems, database management systems, IT adoption, Data mining and knowledge management. He has a wide consulting experience in information systems and e-commerce and has served as an adviser and consultant to several government and private organizations including projects funded by the World Bank. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Copyright 2018, IGI Global.",
year = "2018",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.4018/IJEBR.2018070102",
language = "English",
volume = "14",
pages = "20--33",
journal = "International Journal of e-Business Research",
issn = "1548-1131",
publisher = "IGI Publishing",
number = "3",
}