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Consumerism and the Distributed Delivery of Health Care

By: Robert S. Huckman
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    This stream of Professor Huckman's work examines the growing tendency for health care to be delivered in a more distributed manner. Examples of this phenomenon include health IT, teleradiology, medical travel, remote monitoring of chronic medical conditions, and retail clinics.  This “de-localization” has been facilitated by rapid advances in healthcare information technology (HIT) and by the parallel trend of increased consumer involvement in medical decisionmaking and care provision.  Traditionally, consumers have delegated a significant portion of medical decisionmaking to the physicians who serve as their agents. With greater cost sharing and transparency about the quality of care, however, consumers have begun to play a larger role in both medical decisionmaking and actual care delivery. This shift has created both opportunities and challenges for patients, health care providers, policymakers, insurers, and employers.

    Robert S. Huckman

    Technology and Operations Management
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