Problem Definition: People often make service quality judgments based on information about the quality of each server even though they care primarily about the quality each customer experiences. When and how do server-level quality metrics differ from customer-experienced ones? Can people...

Problem Definition: We study the impact of service facility layout on how service workers organize their tasks. We focus on the hospital emergency department (ED) as a service setting where nurses (servers) have discretion over how they interact with their patients (customers) in a facility that...

Technologies that enable ``e-visits'' -- remote interactions between patients and physicians -- are touted as a way to improve and expand primary care. We study a setting in which a physician can divert some of the patient demand away from the office visits and into the e-visits, which utilize...

Secure messaging, or "e-visits," between patients and providers has increased sharply in recent years, and many hope they will help improve healthcare quality while increasing provider capacity. Using a panel dataset from a large healthcare system in the United States, we find that e-visits...