Jasmine Chang

• Professor (Assistant) at New Jersey Institute of Technology

Motivated by the recent emergence and rapid growth of online healthcare platforms, this paper investigates its impacts on the healthcare ecosystem by taking into consideration of heterogeneous patients, homogeneous service providers and profit-driven hospitals. A game-theoretical model with a queueing framework is developed, and two healthcare syst...

In many countries, healthcare systems encounter the issue of imbalance between supply and demand in a hierarchical structure. The comprehensive hospitals, which possess more high-quality resources, are often overwhelmed, while their counterparts, community hospitals, are often idle. To address this imbalance issue, certain payment schemes are gener...

Plastic crisis, blockchain technology and circular economy.

Non-operating room anesthesia (NORA) refers to the practice and administration of anesthesia or sedation outside the operating room (OR), and it has been increasingly implemented in surgical operations. The novelty of NORA is to isolate the anesthesia preoperative stage from an OR for the sake of saving OR time and improving its efficiency. In this...

Background: Information asymmetry causes barriers for the patient’s decision-making in the online health community. Patients can rely on the physician’s self-disclosed information to alleviate it. However, the impact of physician’s self-disclosed information on the patient’s decision has rarely been discussed. Objectives: To investigate the impact...

Technology has been widely adopted as a backbone for supply chain management, especially in the context of retailing. For example, Blockchain Technology (BCT) has been embraced as a disruptive technology, though it is still in a nascent stage. This study examines the technology adoption for Newsvendor model (a.k.a Newsboy), as exemplified by a bloc...

Healthcare referral has been widely advocated and adopted through the implementation of the two-tier healthcare systems whereby patients are transferred from a comprehensive hospital provider (CHP) to a primary hospital provider (PHP). However, operationally, exactly how to implement the healthcare referral program remains a challenging research qu...

China’s burgeoning connectivity and alignment with the international logistics system through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has powerful developmental implications for the domestic Logistics Services Industry (LSI). However, whether and to what extent the Outward FDI (OFDI) influences the domestic LSI remains an untapped research area. This study...

This paper focuses on the cooperative interaction between a healthcare funder and two levels of hospitals in hierarchic healthcare systems. The funder is the regulator who coordinates patients to be referred from a comprehensive hospital to a community hospital. In this effort, a subsidy scheme and a payment scheme are considered to induce a compre...

Significant developments and advancement pertaining to electric vehicle (EV) technologies, such as extreme fast charging (XFC), have been witnessed in the last decade. However, there are still many challenges to the wider deployment of EVs. One of the major barriers is its availability of fast charging stations. A possible solution is to build a fa...

Healthcare referral has been widely advocated and adopted through the implementation of the two-tier healthcare systems whereby patients are transferred from a comprehensive hospital provider (CHP) to a primary hospital provider (PHP). However, operationally, exactly how to implement the healthcare referral program remains a challenging research qu...

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Sustainability and long-term prosperity are chronic challenges in the agriculture sector of many countries. To address such challenges, farmer cooperatives are formed as an innovative approach to improve the livelihoods for millions of farmers around the world. Inspired by real-life practice in the Kenya coffee industry, we study a class of stochas...

Sustainability and long-term prosperity are chronic challenges in the agriculture sector of many countries. To address such challenges, farmer cooperatives are formed as an innovative approach to improve the livelihoods of millions of farmers around the world. Inspired by real-life practice in the Kenya coffee industry, we study a class of stochast...

Sustainability and long-term prosperity are chronic challenges in the agriculture sector of many countries. To address such challenges, farmer cooperatives are formed as an innovative approach to improve the livelihoods for millions of farmers around the world. Inspired by real-life practice in the Kenya coffee industry, we study a class of stochas...