Background: Effective and efficient healthcare services require the comprehensive collaboration of healthcare professionals and complex inter-reliant activities. Effective collaboration can ensure the best possible health outcome and value for the patient-sharing provider network. Therefore, understanding the dynamics of the patient-sharing provider network is essential to measure the efficiency of healthcare delivery services.
Aims: This research aims to improve health outcomes by analysing the attributes of a patient-sharing provider network. This research also explores the impact of different patient-sharing provider network (PSN) characteristics on admission rate, re-admission rate, length of stay (LOS), hospitalisation cost, etc.
Method: In this study, I use administrative claim data to construct and develop a PSN, and social network analysis (SNA) is used to analyse PSN.
Results: A patient-sharing provider network makes the health sector more efficient and helps make quick and proper real-time decisions. Different healthcare organisations in Australia can use a patient-sharing provider network to make better strategic and operational directives. Therefore, this research provides a comprehensive analysis of the patient-sharing provider network.
Conclusion: This research provides valuable insights and a networked approach to analysing healthcare collaboration in the Australian health context. This research's findings and insights could help transform how the Australian health industry manages, analyses, and leverages data. The result is beneficial for academics, patients, healthcare providers, government, and health industry stakeholders to formulate better policies, eventually improving the quality of care while reducing public healthcare costs in the future.