Research Article
Modeling Market Shares of Competing (e)Care Providers
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_30, author={Jan Ooteghem and Tom Tesch and Sofie Verbrugge and Ann Ackaert and Didier Colle and Mario Pickavet and Piet Demeester}, title={Modeling Market Shares of Competing (e)Care Providers}, proceedings={Electronic Healthcare. Second International ICST Conference, eHealth 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, September 23-15, 2009, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={E-HEALTH}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={eHealth Techno-economics Churn Capacity modeling}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_30} }- Jan Ooteghem
Tom Tesch
Sofie Verbrugge
Ann Ackaert
Didier Colle
Mario Pickavet
Piet Demeester
Year: 2012
Modeling Market Shares of Competing (e)Care Providers
E-HEALTH
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_30
Abstract
In order to address the increasing costs of providing care to the growing group of elderly, efficiency gains through eCare solutions seem an obvious solution. Unfortunately not many techno-economic business models to evaluate the return of these investments are available. The construction of a business case for care for the elderly as they move through different levels of dependency and the effect of introducing an eCare service, is the intended application of the model. The simulation model presented in this paper allows for modeling evolution of market shares of competing care providers. Four tiers are defined, based on the dependency level of the elderly, for which the market shares are determined. The model takes into account available capacity of the different care providers, in- and outflow distribution between tiers and churn between providers within tiers.