Topics A–Z
All 76 topics in alphabetical order. For reading order, see the contents.
A
- Activation and Uptake Consumer health apps and devices the front gates of the value funnel
- Adherence and Persistence Consumer health apps and devices MPR, PDC, effective engagement, minimum effective dose
- AI Developer Productivity AI acceleration Copilot RCT vs METR RCT; efficacy vs effectiveness
- AI Quality Metrics AI acceleration hallucination rates as harm rates with a price
- AI Regulatory Evaluation AI acceleration FDA SaMD, PCCPs, and the economics of model updates
- AI Return on Investment AI acceleration the 95%-no-return finding and what the 5% did differently
- Analysis Perspective Economic reasoning foundations payer vs provider vs societal: whose costs count
- Avoidable Outsourcing Costs Health system operational economics repatriating premium-rate work
- Avoided Downstream Costs HTA frameworks and prevention economics cost offsets and the rules that make them credible
B
- Bed Days Saved Health system operational economics the workhorse benefit, and its valuation traps
- Benefits Realization Software engineering and digital delivery auditing that forecast benefits actually happened
- Budget Impact Analysis (BIA) Economic analysis types affordability, as distinct from value
- Build vs Buy Software engineering and digital delivery risk-adjusted comparison with the delay term priced
C
- Cash-Releasing vs Non-Cash-Releasing Savings Economic reasoning foundations the honesty test for every "time saved" claim
- Clinical AI Evaluation AI acceleration sensitivity, specificity, AUROC, and why prevalence rules the economics
- Cloud Unit Economics (FinOps) Software engineering and digital delivery cost per unit of output; the digital service's reference cost
- Cost of Delay (CoD) Software engineering and digital delivery £/week or QALYs/week of non-delivery; the master bridge metric
- Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) Economic analysis types everything in money; Green Book NPV
- Cost-Consequence Analysis (CCA) Economic analysis types the disaggregated table; NICE's preference for digital health
- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) Economic analysis types cost per natural unit of outcome
- Cost-Minimization Analysis (CMA) Economic analysis types cheapest option, after proving equivalence
- Cost-Utility Analysis (CUA) Economic analysis types cost per QALY; comparing unlike interventions
D
- Did-Not-Attend (DNA) Rate Health system operational economics missed appointments; the purest waste metric
- Digital Endpoints and Biomarkers Consumer health apps and devices from sensor telemetry to regulator-grade evidence
- Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) Outcome measures the burden-side mirror; global health's metric
- Discounting and Time Preference Economic reasoning foundations present values, the 3.5% Green Book/NICE rate
- Dominance and the Efficiency Frontier Economic reasoning foundations eliminating options nobody should pick
- DORA Metrics Software engineering and digital delivery delivery performance, translated into health-economics terms
- Downstream Resource Optimization Health system operational economics unblocking the role everyone waits on
E
- Earlier Intervention Health system operational economics the economics of treating before progression
- Emergency Attendance Avoidance Health system operational economics upstream intervention economics
- Engagement Metrics Consumer health apps and devices engagement as clinical dose
- EQ-5D Outcome measures the instrument behind most QALY utility weights
- Expected Value of Perfect Information (EVPI) Economic reasoning foundations pricing the pilot before you run it
F
- Flow Metrics Software engineering and digital delivery Little's Law, WIP, flow efficiency; the shared queueing math of hospitals and pipelines
G
- GDS Service Metrics Software engineering and digital delivery cost per transaction, satisfaction, completion, take-up
- Germany's DiGA Fast-Track HTA frameworks and prevention economics apps on prescription; provisional listing with an evidence deadline
H
- Hard Cash-Releasing Savings (Deficit Defense) Health system operational economics deleting budget lines; the CFO's metric
- Health App Unit Economics Consumer health apps and devices CAC, LTV, PMPM, and ROI vs VOI
- Health Technology Assessment (HTA) HTA frameworks and prevention economics NICE, ICER (US), CADTH: who decides what's worth buying
- Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) Outcome measures population-level healthy-years accounting
I
- Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio (ICER) Outcome measures extra cost per extra unit of health
- Inference Unit Economics AI acceleration cost per token, and modeling relentless price decline
L
- Length of Stay (LOS) Health system operational economics the hospital's cycle time
- Life-Years Gained (LYG) Outcome measures survival math, and the evLYG equity variant
M
- Marginal vs Average Cost Economic reasoning foundations why freeing a bed doesn't save its average cost
N
- National Tariff and Unit Costs Health system operational economics the NHS price book and costing infrastructure
- Net Monetary Benefit (NMB) Outcome measures value minus cost, done properly
- NICE Evidence Standards Framework (ESF) HTA frameworks and prevention economics risk-tiered evidence requirements for digital health
- Number Needed to Treat (NNT) HTA frameworks and prevention economics effort-per-benefit units that keep claims honest
O
- Opportunity Cost Economic reasoning foundations the value of the best alternative forgone; why fixed budgets make every choice a displacement
P
- Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROMs, PREMs, MCID) Consumer health apps and devices PROMs, PREMs, and the MCID honesty bar
- Practitioner Time Health system operational economics valuing bottleneck capacity, not wages
- Prevention Economics HTA frameworks and prevention economics why prevention is cost-effective but rarely cost-saving
- Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis (PSA) Economic reasoning foundations Monte Carlo, CEACs, probability of being right
Q
- QALY Shortfall and Severity Modifiers Outcome measures why sicker populations' QALYs count more
- Quality-Adjusted Life Year (QALY) Outcome measures the common currency of health value
R
- Reach and Equity Consumer health apps and devices RE-AIM; population impact = reach × effectiveness
- Readmission Rate Health system operational economics the health system's change failure rate
- Referral to Treatment (RTT) Health system operational economics the 18-week standard as a lead-time metric
- Remote Patient Monitoring Economics Consumer health apps and devices CPT code stacks and hospital-at-home substitution
- Retention and Churn Consumer health apps and devices the law of attrition; retention curves as treatment windows
- Return on Investment (ROI) Economic analysis types the shared metric, with declared parameters
S
- Screening Economics HTA frameworks and prevention economics Wilson–Jungner, PPV collapse at low prevalence, alert fatigue
- Sensitivity Analysis Economic reasoning foundations tornado diagrams; which assumption carries your case
- Social Return on Investment (SROI) Economic analysis types monetizing what markets don't price
- SPACE and DevEx Software engineering and digital delivery multi-dimensional productivity; the EQ-5D lesson for engineering metrics
T
- Technical Debt Software engineering and digital delivery principal, interest, and chronic-disease economics for codebases
- Time Horizon Economic reasoning foundations how long to count costs and effects, and horizon gaming
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Software engineering and digital delivery maintenance is 50–80%; the naive-drug-price error in software
V
- Value-Generating Capacity (Operational Turnaround) Health system operational economics minting capacity without hiring
W
- Waiting List Impact Health system operational economics converting saved hours into patients seen
- Wearable Validation Consumer health apps and devices MAPE, agreement statistics, wear-time, completeness
- Willingness-to-Pay Thresholds Outcome measures NICE £20–30k/QALY and the world's other lines
- Workforce Retention Health system operational economics turnover costs and burnout economics
- WSJF and CD3 Software engineering and digital delivery value-density prioritization; the backlog as a QALY league table