Hessam Bavafa

University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business

Assistant Professor

975 University Ave

4284C Grainger Hall

Madison, WI 53706

United States

http://https://bus.wisc.edu/faculty/hessam-bavafa

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The Impact of E-Visits on Visit Frequencies and Patient Health: Evidence from Primary Care

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2018
Hessam Bavafa, Lorin M. Hitt and Christian Terwiesch
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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health care operations, health information technology, secure messaging, e-visits, patient portals

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Redesigning Primary Care Delivery: Customized Office Revisit Intervals and E-Visits

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 06 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2018
Hessam Bavafa, Sergei Savin and Christian Terwiesch
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
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panel size, health care operations, primary care, patient revisit intervals

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Managing Portfolio of Elective Surgical Procedures: A Multidimensional Inverse Newsvendor Problem

Number of pages: 96 Posted: 06 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2018
Hessam Bavafa, Charles Leys, Lerzan Ormeci and Sergei Savin
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business, University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Medicine and Public Health, Koc University and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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elective surgical procedures, patient length of stay, surgery duration, hospital capacity management

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Quality Improvement Spillovers: Evidence From the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 24 May 2018
Robert Batt, Hessam Bavafa and Mohamad Soltani
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business, University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business and University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin School of Business
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Healthcare Operations, Quality Improvement, Spillover Effects, Empirical, Policy Evaluation

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The Impact of Primary Care Provider Availability on Patient Care

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 24 Jul 2017
Hessam Bavafa, Anne Canamucio, Steven Marcus, Christian Terwiesch and Rachel M. Werner
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business, Veterans Health Administration - VA Healthcare-VISN 4, University of Pennsylvania - School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine
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Health Care Operations, Primary Care, Access to Care, Emergency Room

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Building Financial and Health Literacy at Older Ages: The Role of Online Information

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 07 May 2018 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2018
Hessam Bavafa, Junhao Liu and Anita Mukherjee
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business, University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business and University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business
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financial literacy; health literacy; internet use; technology adoption; web skills

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'If You're Not Keeping Score, You're Just Practicing': A Lean Health Care Program Evaluation Framework

Healthcare Quarterly, 2013 (16), 23-30.
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 Jul 2017
Martin L. Puterman, Yue Zhang, Sema Aydede, Becky Palmer, Stuart MacLeod, Hessam Bavafa and Jennifer MacKenzie
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Division of Operations and Logistics, University of Toledo - Department of Information Operations and Technology Management (IOTM), affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Lean, evaluation, health care, performance metrics, operations management, six sigma

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Recovering from Critical Incidents: Evidence from Paramedic Performance

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 07 Nov 2018
Hessam Bavafa and Jónas Oddur Jónasson
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business and MIT Sloan School of Management
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Critical Incidents, Team Performance, Service Operations, Ambulance Operations