AcademyHealth: Health care is different, but not as different as we may think

“Health care is different” is the standard response to the aspiration of (somehow) making health care more like other industries, in which quality and productivity tend to grow over time. A recent study, which I discuss in my latest AcademyHealth post, shows that it’s actually not as different as we may have thought.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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