{"title":"Medicine of the Future: the Power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data in Healthcare","authors":"Julia M. Puaschunder, Josef Mantl, Bernd Plank","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3607616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3607616","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics and Big Data revolutionized the world. Digitalization opened unprecedented opportunities and potentials in healthcare. No other scientific field grants as much hope in the determination of life and death and fastest-pace innovation potential with economically highest profit margin prospects as does medical care. The currently ongoing digital disruption enabled big data-driven tailored personal medical care. Efficiency, precision and better quality work are beneficial advancements of AI and big data in the healthcare sector. Decentralized preventive healthcare and telemedicine open access to personalized, affordable healthcare. The currently ongoing COVID-19 crisis draws attention to international differences in healthcare. The article presents digitalization in the healthcare sector in North America and Europe in order to derive inferences on opportunities to establish a leadership in digitalized, tailored healthcare solutions for individual well-being and public care.","PeriodicalId":333384,"journal":{"name":"HEN: Microeconomics of Medicine/Other (Topic)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134128290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fabián Duarte, S. Kadiyala, S. Masters, David Powell
{"title":"The Effect of the 2009 Influenza Pandemic on Labor Market Outcomes","authors":"Fabián Duarte, S. Kadiyala, S. Masters, David Powell","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2759464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2759464","url":null,"abstract":"In July 2009, the WHO declared the first flu pandemic in nearly 40 years. Although the health effects of the pandemic have been studied, there is little research examining the labor productivity consequences. Using unique sick leave data from the Chilean private health insurance system, we estimate the impact of the pandemic on missed days of work. We estimate that the pandemic increased mean days missed by 0.04 days per person-month, representing a 700-800% increase in missed days relative to non-pandemic years. Calculations using the estimated effect imply a minimum 0.2% reduction in Chile’s labor supply.","PeriodicalId":333384,"journal":{"name":"HEN: Microeconomics of Medicine/Other (Topic)","volume":"300 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114580900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}