What relationships does Dr. Dexter have with healthcare consulting firms?
A primary focus of Dr. Dexter and his colleagues’ work is assisting other organizations develop and use state-of-the-art methods to analyze OR information system, anesthesia information management system, anesthesia billing, hospital financial, and hospital discharge abstract [marketing] data. These methods include optimization based on linear, quadratic, and stochastic programming techniques. Much of the work is performed for healthcare consulting firms. Supplemental services offered include analysis and interpretation for consulting firms. When working with some consulting firms, clients have been unaware of the University of Iowas involvement. Likewise the client and origin of the data is unknown to Dr. Dexter and his team. Some consulting firms have chosen, alternatively, to identify Dr. Dexter as an academic sub-contractor providing advanced statistics and robust mathematics. Clearly, the largest part of any process improvement process occurs not in the analysis, but by implementi
