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Health care

Health care analytics

Top doctors 'undertest' patients to signal diagnostic skill

Published Jan 30, 2020

Despite advances in diagnostic tools, some doctors may limit the number of tests they order for patients in order to signal a high level of competence to their peers

Interdisciplinary scholar

Leading health economist Daniel Polsky named 40th BDP

Published March 12, 2019

Polsky, who has dedicated his career to exploring how health care is organized, managed, financed, and delivered, will hold joint appointments in the Bloomberg School and Carey School

Clearly a better mask

Published Winter 2018

Alums Allysa Dittmar and Aaron Hsu are reinventing the surgical mask / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Health care engineering

Tool helps identify no-show patients

Published Oct 4, 2018

New tool helps doctors reduce the number of patients who forget or skip their appointments and increase appointment availability

Health care costs

The financial toxicity of breast cancer

Published Aug 22, 2018

New study finds that the financial fallout from breast cancer can last for years and cause a series of cascading economic consequences for survivors and their families