Research

LAWTON BURNS RECENT RESEARCH 2003-2007

RESEARCH CONTRACTS [top]

2007-2008 "Assessment of Retail Medical Clinics and Their Impact on Physician-Hospital Relations." Funded by the Center for Health Management Research.

2005-2006 “Assessment and Restructuring of the University of Pennsylvania Health System Supply Chain.” Funded by UPHS.

2005 “Physician Preference Among Surgical Products.” Funded by Broadlane.

2004 “Buyer-Supplier Contracting.” Funded by Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems.

PUBLICATIONS

Books [top]

Lawton R. Burns & Wharton School Colleagues. The Health Care Value Chain: Producers, Purchasers, and Providers. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002).

Lawton R. Burns. The Business of Healthcare Innovation. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Rosemary Stevens, Charles Rosenberg, and Lawton R. Burns (Eds.), Health Care History and Policy in the United States. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006)

Articles/Book Chapters [top]

Lawton R. Burns, et. al. "Assessment of Medical Devices: How to Conduct Comparative Technology Evaluations of Product Performance." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. Forthcoming.

Lawton R. Burns, et. al. “Surgeon Evaluation of Suture and Endo-Mechanical Products.” Journal of Surgical Research. Forthcoming.

Robert Town, Douglas Wholey, Roger Feldman, and Lawton R. Burns. “Hospital Consolidation Increases Racial and Income Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage.” Health Affairs. Forthcoming.

Kwang Jum Kim and Lawton R. Burns. “Factors Affecting the Performance of Hospital Alliances: Evidence from Korea.” Health Services Management Research. Forthcoming.

Lawton R. Burns, David Nash, and Douglas Wholey. "The Evolving Role of Third Parties in the Physician-Hospital Relationship." American Journal of Medical Quality. Forthcoming.

James Zazzali, Stephen Shortell, Jeffrey Alexander, Lawton R. Burns. “Organizational Culture and Physician Satisfaction with Group Practice: A Multilevel Model of Cultural Perception and Context.” Health Services Research. Forthcoming.

Robert Town, Roger Feldman, Douglas Wholey, and Lawton Burns. “Revisiting the Relationship between Managed Care and Hospital Consolidation?” Health Services Research. Forthcoming.

Lawton R. Burns. “Dealing with Innovation and Costs in Orthopedics: A Conversation with Dane Miller”. Health Affairs. 25(2006): W241-251. Published online May 18, 2006.

Lawton R. Burns and Alexandra Burns. “Policy Implications of Hospital System Failures: The Allegheny Bankruptcy.” In Stevens, Rosenberg, and Burns (Eds.), History and Health Policy in the United States. Rutgers University Press. 2006

Lawton R. Burns, Gilbert Gimm, and Sean Nicholson. “The Financial Performance of Integrated Health Organizations (IHOs).” Journal of Healthcare Management. 50(3): 191-213. 2005.

Gloria Bazzoli, Linda Dynan, Lawton R. Burns, Clarence Yap. "Two Decades of Organizational Change in Health Care: What Have We Learned?" Medical Care Research & Review 61(3): 247-331.2004.

Lawton R. Burns, Thomas D’Aunno, and John Kimberly. “Globalization in Healthcare.” In H. Gatignon and J. Kimberly (Eds.), The INSEAD-Wharton Alliance on Globalizing: Strategy for Building Successful Global Businesses. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press). Pp. 395-
421. 2003.

RESEARCH UNDER REVIEW & CURRENT MANUSCRIPTS

Articles/Book Chapters [top]

Lawton R. Burns, J. Andrew Lee, Eric T. Bradlow, and Anthony C. Antonacci. “An Innovative Evaluation of Suture and Endo-Mechanical Products: Head-to-Head Vendor Comparisons.” Submitted to Journal of Long-Term Effects if Medical Implants.

Lawton R. Burns, Gloria Bazzoli, and Linda Dynan. "Considerations and Conclusions Regarding Organizational Change."

Lawton R. Burns, Rajiv Shah, and Frank Sloan. The Impact of Governance Changes on Strategy: Results From a Study of Hospital Ownership Conversions." Milbank Quarterly, Revise and resubmit.

Lawton R. Burns, Harbir Singh, Jeffrey Alexander, and Howard Zuckerman. "Make, Buy, or Ally: Impact of Governance Mode on Trading Partner Alignment."

Industry Presentations [top]

• Dade Behring (Fort Lauderdale), January 2003
• Premier Governance Education Conference (Naples), January 2003
• NCI Conference on Hospital Systems (Orlando), January 2003
• International Pharmaceutical Wholesalers Conference (New York), February 2003
• Aventis Pharmaceuticals (Philadelphia), April 2003
• Inova Health Systems (Virginia), April 2003
• VHA Leadership Conference (Boston), April 2003
• Premier Leadership Conference (Las Vegas), May 2003
• Humana (Philadelphia), June 2003
• Association of Biotechnology Financial Officers (Scottsdale), June 2003
• UniMed (Sao Paolo), July 2003
• Dade Behring Executive Team (Philadelphia), July 2003
• Association of Healthcare Resource and Materials Managers (San Diego), August 2003
• McKesson Corporation (Atlanta), August 2003
• W.L. Gore & Associates (Maryland), August 2003
• UNIMED (Philadelphia), September 2003
• Kettering Medical Center Network (Dayton), October 2003
• DePuy, November 2003
• Johnson & Johnson Hospital Management Program (Singapore), November 2003
• Ethicon (Somerville, NJ), January 2004
• Health Industry Distributors Association (Amelia Island Plantation), March 2004
• LeHigh Valley Health System (Allentown), March 2004
• Heritage Valley Health System (Beaver, PA), April 2004
• New England Health Care Assembly (Worcester, MA), April 2004
• Ohio State Medical Society (Cincinnati), May 2004
• Inova Health System (Virginia), May 2004
• American Medical Association – HMSS Section (Chicago), June 2004
• Johnson & Johnson Contract Excellence (Princeton), September 2004
• Chesapeake General Hospital (Williamsburg), September 2004
• Biosciences Forum (Philadelphia), October 2004
• Cooper Heart Institute (Voorhees, NJ), October 2004
• Adventist Health Care (Nemacolin, PA), October 2004
• Christiana Care (Wilmington, DE), November 2004
• Christiana Care (Wilmington, DE), January 2005
• Cooper University Hospital (Camden, NJ), May 2005
• Cerner Corporation, May 2005
• HDMA (Orlando, FL), June 2005
• Johnson & Johnson Wharton Nurse Fellows Program, June 2005
• Maine Health (Bar Harbor, ME), October 2005
• Greater New York Hospital Association (NYC), October 2005
• DePuy (Puerto Rico), January 2006
• Broadlane Annual Client Summit (Dallas), March 2006
• Owens & Minor Board Retreat (Richmond), March 2006
• Johnson & Johnson Wharton Executive Management Academy, April 2006
• Medtronic Marketing Leader Program, May 2006
• Medtronic Directors Program, July 2006
• National Federation of Municipal Analysts, November 2006

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT & INDUSTRY TESTIMONY [top]

• Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Hearings on Independence Blue Cross, April 2007
• Pennsylvania Senate Committee Banking and Insurance, Hearings on Independence Blue Cross-Highmark Merger, June 2007
• Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Hearings on Independence Blue Cross, April 12, 2004
• Federal Trade Commission: “Group Purchasing Organizations and Antitrust Implications.”
• Workshop on Antitrust in Health Care. Federal Trade Commission. September 9, 2002.
• Federal Trade Commission: “Hospital Vertical Integration and Antitrust Implications.” Joint FTC/DOJ Hearings on Health Care and Competition Law and Policy. April 9, 2003.
• Federal Trade Commission. Expert Witness, FTC v. Piedmont Health Alliance. 2004.
• Federal Trade Commission. Expert Witness, FTC v. Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Medical Group. 2004-2005.
• Cravath, Swaine, and Moore. Expert Witness, Unsecured Creditors of Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation v. PricewaterhouseCoopers. 2004-2005.
• Sidley Austin. Expert Witness. ConMed Corporation v. Ethicon/Ethicon Endo-Surgery. 2005.
• Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Expert Witness. Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System v. Hillenbrand Industries. 2005.