CAREER: Optimizing Healthcare Operations through Incentive Mechanism Design

职业生涯：通过激励机制设计优化医疗运营

• 批准号: 2339767
• 负责人: Sait Tunc
• 金额: $ 56.86万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2029-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2339767&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Optimizing; Healthcare; Operations; through

This Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant will contribute to the advancement of national prosperity and economic welfare by supporting research on the design and analysis of incentive mechanisms that promote optimal health behaviors and efficient utilization of scarce resources, in this case organs donated for transplantation. The research addresses the improvement of organ utilization by reducing the number of donated organs that are discarded without being transplanted, efficient patient-organ matching, stimulation of organ availability by incentivizing organ donation, and the promotion of wellness through optimally designed and timed incentives. By incorporating behavioral aspects into healthcare operations, the project develops strategic incentives to help align individual actions with societal well-being without imposing mandatory compliance. The educational component of this work will enrich the operations research curriculum with behavioral concepts, foster interdisciplinary understanding by educating medical researchers about advanced modeling techniques, and engage underrepresented students through collaboration with an HBCU, contributing to a diverse, inclusive, and effective scientific workforce.This project will bridge the fields of operations research and behavioral economics to construct and evaluate incentive mechanisms within healthcare settings using a variety of stochastic dynamic modeling techniques, including queueing game models, principal-agent models, and discrete-time finite-horizon models while linking the strategic decisions of individuals to overarching societal goals. Real-life data and clinically detailed simulation models will be employed to empirically validate the mechanisms, ensuring that the research outcomes can fruitfully inform policymaking. The analysis methods developed also have the potential to inform incentive design in other application domains where individual and societal interests intersect.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项教师的早期职业发展计划（职业）赠款将通过支持促进最佳健康行为和有效利用资源的激励机制的设计和分析，从而为国家繁荣和经济福利的发展做出贡献，在这种情况下，捐赠了用于移植的机构。该研究通过减少丢弃的捐赠器官的数量，而无需移植，有效的患者和器官匹配，通过激励器官捐赠来刺激器官的可用性以及通过最佳设计和定时的激励来促进良好，从而解决了器官利用的改善。通过将行为方面纳入医疗保健业务，该项目开发了战略激励措施，以帮助个人行动与社会福祉保持一致，而无需强制遵守。这项工作的教育组成部分将通过行为概念来丰富运营研究课程，通过向医学研究人员教育高级建模技术来促进跨学科的理解，并通过与HBCU合作，使代表性不足的学生与人数不足的学生互动，并为多样性，包容性的科学工作和有效的研究机制而促进了该领域的经济学和行为，以实现研究和有效的研究。使用各种随机动态建模技术进行设置，包括排队游戏模型，主体代理模型和离散时间有限的摩托车模型，同时将个人的战略决策与超大的社会目标联系起来。现实生活中的数据和临床详细的仿真模型将用于经验验证这些机制，以确保研究结果可以有效地为决策提供信息。开发的分析方法还可以在个人和社会利益相交的其他应用领域中为激励设计提供信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估审查标准，认为值得通过评估值得支持。