While data laws were given a seat with older, relationship-based health law such as tort duties, they are not seen as a crucial part of the modern healthcare regulatory system and viewed only from a distance when healthcare history and policy are discussed. However, here we argue that our...

Heterogeneous firm models are ubiquitous in modern macroeconomics. We revisit a central feature of these models: the idiosyncratic shock process faced by firms. Using a large representative firm-level dataset, we document nonparametrically that the common assumption, a Gaussian AR(1) shock...

This article argues that advances in healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) will seriously challenge the robustness and appropriateness of our current healthcare regulatory models. Initially healthcare AI will join other technologies such as big data and mobile health apps in highlighting the...

This article examines the possible constructs behind the announcement by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase & Co., that they are jointly building a new healthcare entity for their employees. The article provides context by discussing and comparing the healthcare ambitions of the...

This chapter accepts that data analytics have the potential to make major improvements in the health care system. However, its focus is not big data being used within healthcare, but rather the use of healthcare data for market segmentation or profiling purposes that occurs outside of healthcare...

This essay considers the potential for the Internet of Health Things (IoHT). Initial interest on emerging technologies that could benefit individual and population health has focused on health applications installed on mobile computing platforms and wearable devices. Increasingly, however,...

Health care providers and pharmaceutical companies have rapidly ramped up in their presence in cyberspace (cybermedicine). This article examines the content-related liability exposure of cybermedicine providers, mapping real space liability theories such as professional negligence,...

Social networks connect intimates, friends, and acquaintances that share history, strangers who share interests, or businesses and the customers they serve. This article explores how participation in online social networks blurs the boundaries between personal and professional relationships or...

This article examines the promise of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act to reduce or eliminate the market failures that have impeded the adoption of electronic health records. Specifically, the article considers a key provision of the statute, a condition for...

This article is principally concerned with a subset of electronic health records known as personal health records. In contrast to the more familiar charts, paper records, and electronic medical records maintained by health care providers, personal health records are medical records created and...