Researchers Develop System to Address $150B Health Care Losses Due to No-Shows

Researchers Develop System to Address $150B Health Care Losses Due to No-Shows
May 28, 2020
Developed in the College of Engineering, the system has been licensed to startup Hipokratiz, LLC, to bring it to market.
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[e-mail] health care industry loses about $150 billion each year due to no-shows for doctors ' and dentists ' appointments. A number of factors, such as a lack of insurance, inability to take time off of work or difficulty affording care, may prevent patients from going for their checkups. On the provider side, inefficiencies in systems and staffing can compound the problem.Whatever the reason, the result remains: Patients do not get the care they need. And one patient missing an appointment wastes a block of time that could have been used by someone else in need of care.Vinodh Subramanian, who graduated from the University of Arizona in 2019 with a master ' s degree from theDepartment of Systems and Industrial Engineering has been studying the many factors that make people keep or forego visits to health care providers. In collaboration with his adviser,Robert Lepore, director of theengineering management   graduate program and instructor at the UArizona  College of Engineering, Subramanian has developed a deep understanding of the problem,...

Source: The University of Arizona: Health - May 27, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: tumarkin Source Type: research