As health care financing, organization, and delivery innovations proliferate, the need for comprehensive, detailed data on medical spending has never been more apparent. This study builds on previous work to provide a more comprehensive accounting of medical spending at the individual level than...

Understanding how healthy lifespans are changing is essential for public policy. This paper explores changes in healthy lifespan in the U.S. over time and considers reasons for the changes. We reach three fundamental conclusions. First, we show that healthy life increased measurably in the US...

The question of whether morbidity is being compressed into the period just before death has been at the center of health debates in the United States for some time. Compression of morbidity would lead to longer life but less rapid medical spending increases than if life extension were...

In this short and hypothetical case study, we present a management problem of optimization. With the backdrop of COVID-19, we explore how Beta Company should optimize its cost for international medical journal exposure to ensure its brand’s credibility in an international pharmaceutical...

As we move past COVID19, telephone medicine and telemedicine is becoming integral to patient’s clinical care for both primary and specialty care. In this paper, after a brief bibliometric visualization of telemedicine literature in trade journals, we discuss the difference between...