Chinese Local Governments’ Behavioral Logic of Early-Warning Information Release Regarding Major Epidemic Outbreaks from the Organizational Analysis Perspective

Based on the three-dimensional ‘organizational goal – organizational field – organizational incen­tive’ analysis framework, this paper attempts to conduct a comparative and diachronic analysis of the behavioral logic of Chinese local governments’ early-warning information release in major epidemic outbreaks. The results of the research show that the organizational goal, field and incentive are highly rel­evant to different strategic choices of whether local governments should, will and are willing to perform their governance function; additionally, different combinations of these elements trigger different lo­cal government behaviors. The organizational goal, field and incentive are the starting point, turning point, and end point of local governments’ behavior­al logic, respectively, while the organizational field is prerequisite for the organizational incentive to work. The organizational goal – organizational field – organizational incentive sequence reflects the se­quence and interactive relationship of local govern­ments’ behavioral logic.

System Dynamics Modelling for Dynamic Emergency Response to Accidents Involving Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road

For improving the emergency capacities during road transportation accidents of dangerous goods, this paper divides the accident emergency procedure into four subsystems: accident information processing, personnel rescue and evacuation, vehicle evacuation, and rescue materials delivery. On this basis, the causal mechanism and the loop diagrams of the emergency process are established by using the System Dynamics Method and Vensim software. First, six factors including transportation distance, the degree of mechanical modernization, delay time of personnel control, delay time of traffic information release, command level coefficient, and delay time of department arrival are selected as parameters to test the model’s sensitivity analysis. Then, the influences of the abovementioned factors on the observed value, such as the demand gap of on-site materials, number of people in safe area, number of vehicles in safe area, amount of disposal information, and the dynamic evolution behavior of the system, are analyzed. The results show that the transportation distance is shortened by half, and the time to fill the demand gap is reduced by 39%. The level of mechanical modernization is doubled, the peak inventory of materials in transit will increase by 9.2%, and the time to reach the peak will be shortened by 6.8%. If the delay time of personnel control is shortened by 480 s, the number of people to be evacuated in accident area will be reduced by 56. The delay time of traffic information release is shortened by 480 s, the number of vehicles to be evacuated is reduced by 74, and the time when the vehicle stops entering accident area is 1646 s in advance. The command level coefficient increases by 9.5%, and the speed of action execution increases by 9.6%.

Short-Selling and Information Arrival around Earnings Announcements: Evidence from Regulation SHO

Short sellers assist in impounding negative news more quickly into stock prices and improve price informativeness. However, there is a lack of consistent evidence about whether short sellers trade predominantly in anticipation of, or in response to, a public information release. To shed light on this question, we exploit Reg SHO, which reduced the constraints faced by short sellers for a subsample of U.S. firms, to examine price informativeness before, during and after earnings announcements. We show that relative to control firms, pilot firms have greater (less) price informativeness before (during) earnings announcements, suggesting that short sellers trade in anticipation of public earnings news, rather than in response to the public news.

LITERATURE REVIEW : PELEPASAN INFORMASI MEDIS KEPADA PIHAK ASURANSI

Release of medical information must be subject to applicable procedures and must be with the patient's consent. Patients must make a stamped written statement that has authorized a third party to request medical data from a doctor. The purpose of this study is to determine the policy of releasing medical information and the flow of procedures for releasing medical information to the insurer. The research method in this study is to use a literature review design, namely research that examines research articles on the release of medical information to insurance parties by comparing, summarizing, and drawing conclusions. The search strategy used keywords and operator bundles used in this study, namely "medical records" or "information release" or "insurers". The result of the research is that a hospital is in the process of releasing medical information using policies in the form of SOPs, cooperation agreements with insurance parties, and orally. In addition, there are hospitals that have different procedures for releasing medical information because they do not only serve one insurance party, but there are several insurance parties that are served such as BPJS, Jasa Raharja, and Askes. However, in the process of releasing medical information, there are hospitals that are not yet in accordance with the flow of medical information release procedures that have been determined by the Hospital. Therefore, the hospital conducts outreach on the flow of procedures for releasing medical information so that the officer in charge has a better understanding of the release of medical information. Keyword : medical records, information release, insurers Abstrak Pelepasan informasi medis harus mengacu pada prosedur yang berlaku dan harus dengan persetujuan pasien. Pasien harus membuat pernyataan tertulis bermaterai bahwa telah memberi kuasa kepada pihak ketiga untuk meminta data medis dari dokter. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui kebijakan pelepasan informasi medis dan alur prosedur pelepasan informasi medis kepada pihak asuransi. Metode penelitian dalam penelitian ini adalah menggunakan desain literature review yaitu penelitian yang mengkaji artikel-artikel penelitian tentang Pelepasan Informasi Medis Kepada Pihak Asuransi dengan cara membandingkan, meringkas, dan mengambil kesimpulan. Strategi pencarian menggunakan keyword dan booelan operator yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu “rekam medis” or “pelepasan informasi” or “pihak asuransi”. Hasil penelitian terdapat Rumah Sakit yang dalam proses pelepasan informasi medis menggunakan kebijakan dalam bentuk SOP, perjanjian kerjasama dengan pihak asuransi, dan secara lisan. Selain itu terdapat Rumah Sakit memiliki alur prosedur pelepasan informasi medis yang berbeda-beda karena tidak hanya melayani satu pihak asuransi saja, tetapi ada beberapa pihak asuransi yang dilayani seperti BPJS, Jasa Raharja, dan Askes. Akan tetapi dalam proses pelepasan informasi medis terdapat Rumah Sakit yang belum sesuai dengan alur prosedur pelepasan informasi medis yang telah ditentukan oleh Rumah Sakit. Oleh karena itu pihak Rumah Sakit melakukan sosialisasi mengenai alur prosedur pelepasan informasi medis agar petugas yang bertanggungjawab lebih paham mengenai pelepasan informasi medis.

Analysis on Communication Influence of Official Microblogs

As an innovative way for government affairs disclosure, official microblogs have been widely used in information release, public opinion listening, and public services, which become a model of “Internet + government affairs.” The communication influence of official accounts is mainly related to the account’s attention, activity, and the posted articles. Based on AHP, we design a multi-hierarchy-rank model to filter the factors and determine the most important factors related to the influence of official microblogs. This study explores the communication influence of official microblog from the perspectives of breadth, depth, and intensity; then, a three-dimensional integration of government microblogs influence calculation model for radiation, activity, and interaction is built and a monitoring and analysis system for the communication influence of government microblog is developed; finally, about 2,800 official accounts and more than 1.5 million articles in Zhejiang Province are monitored and analyzed. According to microblog verification, our proposed calculation model not only quantifies the communication influence of official microblogs but also analyzes their dynamics and timeliness. Therefore, it helps government departments to promote the healthy and orderly development of government microblogs.

Effects of Content Features and Lingual Form of Government Information Release on the Regulation of Public Negative Emotions During COVID-19 Epidemic in Wuhan

Background: Emergencies and their associated negative emotions have a great effect on public health. As a key part of the emergency management, government information release (GIR) not only meets the public's health information seeking, but also helps to eliminate the breeding and spreading of negative social emotions. Method: From the two aspects of content features and lingual forms, a regression model was built to explore the mechanism of GIR on the regulation of netizens' negative emotions by adopting the theoretical methods of content analysis, emotion calculation, and case analysis. Results: During the emergency outbreak, if the government can timely release information on the incident and respond to the public using rational language, netizens' negative emotions can be alleviated. During the emergency peak, the government should release the event progress, resolution and disposal information to improve the recognition of netizens and eliminate negative emotions. Conclusions: According to different stages of emergencies, the government should timely and reasonably utilize the attitude tendency, content type and lingual form of GIR to effectively regulate the negative emotions of netizens.