The contraction in health care consumption at the start of the pandemic provides insight into central economic … questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we …-year mortality by 29.7 deaths per 10,000 among compliers, implying that a 10% increase in health care appointments reduces mortality …

technological advancement in digital health by studying an intervention of "remote patient monitoring" that enabled patients to … Health among a diverse population of patients and targeted hypertension management to reduce the risk of cardiovascular … frictions in the provision of care and improved health behaviors as mechanisms. The program also led to significant reductions …

In many health domains, we are concerned that observed links - for example, between "healthy" behaviors and good … vary over time. When a particular health behavior becomes more recommended, the take-up of the behavior may be larger among … people with other positive health behaviors. Such changes in selection would make it even more difficult to learn about …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

In February 2009 the U.S. Congress unexpectedly passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical … Health Act (HITECH). HITECH provides up to $27 billion to promote adoption and appropriate use of Electronic Medical Records …

Health information technology (IT) adoption, it is argued, will dramatically improve patient care. We study the impact … sensitive conditions we find that health IT adoption reduces mortality for the most complex patients but does not affect … case mix. We decompose the impact of health IT into care coordination, clinical information management, and other …

The U.S. population receives suboptimal levels of preventive care and has a high prevalence of risky health behaviors …. One goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to increase preventive care and improve health behaviors by expanding access … to health insurance …

2008 and substantial recovery by 2012, to investigate the extent to which the effects of a recession on health behaviors … are lingering or short-lived and to explore trajectories in health behaviors from pre-crisis boom, to crisis, to recovery …. Health-compromising behaviors (smoking, heavy drinking, sugared soft drinks, sweets, fast food, and tanning) declined during …