The adoption of health information and communication technology (HICT) has surged over
the past two decades. We survey the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and …

Importance Many veterans enrolled in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system have
access to non-VA care through insurance and VA-purchased community care. Prior …

Privatization has been shown to increase growth and profitability of public firms. However,
effects on consumers are understudied. We study potential trade-offs in the US hospital …

We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization.
We estimate a model that separates variation in average utilization of Medicare beneficiaries …

Despite an overall decline in the US veteran population, the number of veterans using VA
health care has increased. To deliver timely care to as many eligible veterans as possible …

Hospitals in the US compete on price and quality. There are fears that because of general
idiosyncrasies in the market for health care services, competition between hospitals will not …

We study whether, and how, managers can increase government productivity in the context
of public health provision. Using novel data from public hospitals in Chile, we document that …

Economic theory predicts that outsourcing public services to private firms reduces costs, but
the effect on quality is ambiguous. We explore quality differences between publicly and …

Recent debates over health care reform, including in the context of the Military Health
System (MHS) and Veterans Administration, highlight the dispute between public and …

Public health systems are dominant in much of the world but often face fiscal constraints that
lead to rationing of care. As a result, private sector healthcare providers could in theory …