The dynamic impacts of online healthcare community on physician altruism: A Hidden Markov Model

• Main Authors: LUO, Kai, WANG, Qiu-hong, TEO, Hock Hai
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Physician Altruism; Online Healthcare Community; Hidden Markov Model; Databases and Information Systems; Medical Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4689; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5692/viewcontent/ICIS2019_Altruism.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Physician altruism is not only a key foundation of modern medical professionalism, but also a critical component in the theoretical health economics study. There is considerable interest in understanding the impacts of contemporary healthcare technology on physician altruism. In this paper, we inves...