This study addresses three important questions concerning personalized health care: (1) Are outcome differences between hospitals heterogeneous across patients? (2) If they are, how valuable is patient-centric information (that accounts for heterogeneity) to patients in selecting a hospital? and...

Public reporting of medical treatment outcomes is being widely adopted by policymakers in an effort to increase quality transparency and improve alignment between patient choices and provider capabilities. We examine the soundness of this approach by studying the effects of quality transparency...

This brief article discusses the important role quality transparency plays in the healthcare sector. It also describes some of the challenges faced by policymakers in improving transparency, and outlines a few solutions that they could apply