Digital Health COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs
Peter Lee, Amy Abernethy, David Shaywitz,, Adi V. Gundlapalli, James Weinstein, P. Murali Doraiswamy, Kevin Schulman, MD, Subha Madhavan
NAM Perspect | January 2022
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Advocacy: Addressing health inequities with AI-powered populations
Ann Aerts, James Weinstein, Jessica Glago
G20 Summit | October 2021
Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy
JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)
Improving Economic Conditions Matter for Mortality: Changes in Local Economic Distress Associated with Mortality Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Between 2003 and 2015
Harper O. Wallace, Kenan Fikri, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021
Examining the Prevalence of Previously Recorded Phenotypically Related Diagnoses Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Enrollees Newly Diagnosed with Mendelian Conditions
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao , Jeremy Smith , Chaitanya Bangur, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021
The Federal Health Authority, a Federal Reserve System for Health Care: COVID-19 Has Exposed a Need for Change
James Weinstein, Bill Weeks, Jonathan S. Skinner
JAMA Health Forum | January 2021
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Using Internet Search Trends to Forecast Short-term Drug Overdose Deaths: A Case Study on Connecticut
Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) | December 2020
A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example
Spine | October 2020
Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse.
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao, Jeremy Smith, James Weinstein
JAMA Network Open | September 2020, Vol 3(10)
Point of View: “Correlates of Google Search Rankings for Spine Surgeons: An Analysis of Academic Pedigree, Social Media Presence, and Patient Ratings”.
Bill Weeks, Nitesh Jain, James Weinstein
Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1382
Situational Awareness: Inequity.
Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1317-1319
Inequity in access to personalized medicine in France: Evidences from analysis of geo variations in the access to molecular profiling among advanced non-small-cell lung cancer patients: Results from the IFCT Biomarkers France Study.
Samuel Kembou Nzale, Bill Weeks, L’Houcine Ouafik, Isabelle Rouquette, Michèle Beau-Faller, Antoinette Lemoine, Pierre-Paul Bringuier, Anne-Gaëlle Le Coroller Soriano, Fabrice Barlesi, Bruno Ventelou
PLOS ONE | June 2020, Vol 15(7)
Integrating Epidemiological Information into MRI Reports Reduces Ensuing Radiologic Testing Costs Among Patients with Low Back Pain: A Controlled Study.
Bill Weeks, Jason Pike, Christopher J. Schaeffer, Mathew J. Devine, John M. Ventura, Jeremy Donath, Brian D. Justice
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | May 2020, Vol 46(6): pp. 365-368
Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.
Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896
P0: Progress to zero: A simple metric to measure COVID-19 progress by country/region
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ruth B Etzioni, Bill Weeks
May 2020
Pay Gap Between Male And Female Physicians
Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou
Health Affairs | April 2020, Vol 39(5): pp. 906-906
Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk
Nancy E. Morden, Jonathan Skinner, Bill Weeks, Stephanie Tomlin, James Weinstein
Health Affairs | April 2020
Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351
Association of Declines in End-of-Life Health Care Costs With Fee-for-Service Enrollee Per Capita Expenditures
Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein
March 2020
Use of Z-Codes to Record Social Determinants of Health Among Fee-for-service Medicare Beneficiaries in 2017.
William B. Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James N. Weinstein, James N. Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden, Nancy E. Morden, James Weinstein, Bill Weeks
Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, Vol 35(3): pp. 952-955
A Decade of Modest Convergence in Geographic Variation in Per Capita Medicare Fee-for-Service Expenditures: Taxation Without Representation Is Not Sustainable; Is It Time for Taxpayer and Consumer Engagement?
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, pp. 1-4
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Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Non-demented Spanish Care Home Residents: a Before-After Comparison of Three Methods.
Curtis L. Petersen, David Curto, Manish K. Mishra, Pedro Cano, Bill Weeks
Journal of General Internal Medicine | December 2019, Vol 35(1): pp. 383-385
Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.
JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466
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Association Between Community Economic Distress and Receipt of Recommended Services Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Enrollees.
Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden
Journal of General Internal Medicine | December 2018, Vol 34(12): pp. 2731-2732
Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients’ Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs
Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2018, Vol 33(9): pp. 1433-1435
DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication
How Do We Move Beyond Regression to the Mean?: Improving Health and Health Care.
Spine | January 2018, Vol 43(2): pp. 73-75
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Using Publicly Available Data to Construct a Transparent Measure of Health Care Value: A Method and Initial Results.
Bill Weeks, Gregory R. Kotzbauer, James Weinstein
Milbank Quarterly | May 2016, Vol 94(2): pp. 314-333
DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication
Rates of admission for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in France in 2009–2010: trends, geographic variation, costs, and an international comparison
Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou, Alain Paraponaris
European Journal of Health Economics | April 2016, Vol 17(4): pp. 453-470
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How Healthcare Is Different
The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108
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The urgent need to create healthcare value.
Bill Weeks, Eric B Wadsworth, Stephen S Rauh, James Weinstein
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | April 2013, Vol 67(5): pp. 136
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Improving Quality and Curbing Health Care Spending: Opportunities for the Congress and the Obama Administration
John E. Wennberg, Shannon Brownlee, Elliott S. Fisher, Jonathan S. Skinner, James Weinstein
December 2008
Publications by Research Area
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Digital Health COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs
Peter Lee, Amy Abernethy, David Shaywitz,, Adi V. Gundlapalli, James Weinstein, P. Murali Doraiswamy, Kevin Schulman, MD, Subha Madhavan
NAM Perspect | January 2022
Advocacy: Addressing health inequities with AI-powered populations
Ann Aerts, James Weinstein, Jessica Glago
G20 Summit | October 2021
Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy
JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)
Improving Economic Conditions Matter for Mortality: Changes in Local Economic Distress Associated with Mortality Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Between 2003 and 2015
Harper O. Wallace, Kenan Fikri, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021
Examining the Prevalence of Previously Recorded Phenotypically Related Diagnoses Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Enrollees Newly Diagnosed with Mendelian Conditions
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao , Jeremy Smith , Chaitanya Bangur, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021
The Federal Health Authority, a Federal Reserve System for Health Care: COVID-19 Has Exposed a Need for Change
James Weinstein, Bill Weeks, Jonathan S. Skinner
JAMA Health Forum | January 2021
Using Internet Search Trends to Forecast Short-term Drug Overdose Deaths: A Case Study on Connecticut
Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) | December 2020
A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example
Spine | October 2020
Situational Awareness: Inequity.
Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1317-1319
Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse.
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao, Jeremy Smith, James Weinstein
JAMA Network Open | September 2020, Vol 3(10)
Point of View: “Correlates of Google Search Rankings for Spine Surgeons: An Analysis of Academic Pedigree, Social Media Presence, and Patient Ratings”.
Bill Weeks, Nitesh Jain, James Weinstein
Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1382
Inequity in access to personalized medicine in France: Evidences from analysis of geo variations in the access to molecular profiling among advanced non-small-cell lung cancer patients: Results from the IFCT Biomarkers France Study.
Samuel Kembou Nzale, Bill Weeks, L’Houcine Ouafik, Isabelle Rouquette, Michèle Beau-Faller, Antoinette Lemoine, Pierre-Paul Bringuier, Anne-Gaëlle Le Coroller Soriano, Fabrice Barlesi, Bruno Ventelou
PLOS ONE | June 2020, Vol 15(7)
Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.
Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896
Integrating Epidemiological Information into MRI Reports Reduces Ensuing Radiologic Testing Costs Among Patients with Low Back Pain: A Controlled Study.
Bill Weeks, Jason Pike, Christopher J. Schaeffer, Mathew J. Devine, John M. Ventura, Jeremy Donath, Brian D. Justice
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | May 2020, Vol 46(6): pp. 365-368
P0: Progress to zero: A simple metric to measure COVID-19 progress by country/region
Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ruth B Etzioni, Bill Weeks
May 2020
Pay Gap Between Male And Female Physicians
Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou
Health Affairs | April 2020, Vol 39(5): pp. 906-906
Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk
Nancy E. Morden, Jonathan Skinner, Bill Weeks, Stephanie Tomlin, James Weinstein
Health Affairs | April 2020
Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351
Association of Declines in End-of-Life Health Care Costs With Fee-for-Service Enrollee Per Capita Expenditures
Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein
March 2020
Use of Z-Codes to Record Social Determinants of Health Among Fee-for-service Medicare Beneficiaries in 2017.
William B. Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James N. Weinstein, James N. Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden, Nancy E. Morden, James Weinstein, Bill Weeks
Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, Vol 35(3): pp. 952-955
A Decade of Modest Convergence in Geographic Variation in Per Capita Medicare Fee-for-Service Expenditures: Taxation Without Representation Is Not Sustainable; Is It Time for Taxpayer and Consumer Engagement?
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, pp. 1-4
Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Non-demented Spanish Care Home Residents: a Before-After Comparison of Three Methods.
Curtis L. Petersen, David Curto, Manish K. Mishra, Pedro Cano, Bill Weeks
Journal of General Internal Medicine | December 2019, Vol 35(1): pp. 383-385
Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.
JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466
Association Between Community Economic Distress and Receipt of Recommended Services Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Enrollees.
Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden
Journal of General Internal Medicine | December 2018, Vol 34(12): pp. 2731-2732
Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients’ Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs
Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2018, Vol 33(9): pp. 1433-1435
DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication
How Do We Move Beyond Regression to the Mean?: Improving Health and Health Care.
Spine | January 2018, Vol 43(2): pp. 73-75
Using Publicly Available Data to Construct a Transparent Measure of Health Care Value: A Method and Initial Results.
Bill Weeks, Gregory R. Kotzbauer, James Weinstein
Milbank Quarterly | May 2016, Vol 94(2): pp. 314-333
DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication
Rates of admission for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in France in 2009–2010: trends, geographic variation, costs, and an international comparison
Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou, Alain Paraponaris
European Journal of Health Economics | April 2016, Vol 17(4): pp. 453-470
How Healthcare Is Different
The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108
The urgent need to create healthcare value.
Bill Weeks, Eric B Wadsworth, Stephen S Rauh, James Weinstein
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | April 2013, Vol 67(5): pp. 136
Improving Quality and Curbing Health Care Spending: Opportunities for the Congress and the Obama Administration
John E. Wennberg, Shannon Brownlee, Elliott S. Fisher, Jonathan S. Skinner, James Weinstein
December 2008
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Rates of admission for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in France in 2009–2010: trends, geographic variation, costs, and an international comparison
Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou, Alain Paraponaris
European Journal of Health Economics | April 2016, Vol 17(4): pp. 453-470
-
Using Internet Search Trends to Forecast Short-term Drug Overdose Deaths: A Case Study on Connecticut
Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) | December 2020
Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk
Nancy E. Morden, Jonathan Skinner, Bill Weeks, Stephanie Tomlin, James Weinstein
Health Affairs | April 2020
Publications by Type
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Digital Health COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs
Peter Lee, Amy Abernethy, David Shaywitz,, Adi V. Gundlapalli, James Weinstein, P. Murali Doraiswamy, Kevin Schulman, MD, Subha Madhavan
NAM Perspect | January 2022
Advocacy: Addressing health inequities with AI-powered populations
Ann Aerts, James Weinstein, Jessica Glago
G20 Summit | October 2021
Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy
JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)
Improving Economic Conditions Matter for Mortality: Changes in Local Economic Distress Associated with Mortality Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Between 2003 and 2015
Harper O. Wallace, Kenan Fikri, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021
Examining the Prevalence of Previously Recorded Phenotypically Related Diagnoses Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Enrollees Newly Diagnosed with Mendelian Conditions
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao , Jeremy Smith , Chaitanya Bangur, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021
The Federal Health Authority, a Federal Reserve System for Health Care: COVID-19 Has Exposed a Need for Change
James Weinstein, Bill Weeks, Jonathan S. Skinner
JAMA Health Forum | January 2021
Using Internet Search Trends to Forecast Short-term Drug Overdose Deaths: A Case Study on Connecticut
Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) | December 2020
A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example
Spine | October 2020
Situational Awareness: Inequity.
Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1317-1319
Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse.
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao, Jeremy Smith, James Weinstein
JAMA Network Open | September 2020, Vol 3(10)
Point of View: “Correlates of Google Search Rankings for Spine Surgeons: An Analysis of Academic Pedigree, Social Media Presence, and Patient Ratings”.
Bill Weeks, Nitesh Jain, James Weinstein
Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1382
Inequity in access to personalized medicine in France: Evidences from analysis of geo variations in the access to molecular profiling among advanced non-small-cell lung cancer patients: Results from the IFCT Biomarkers France Study.
Samuel Kembou Nzale, Bill Weeks, L’Houcine Ouafik, Isabelle Rouquette, Michèle Beau-Faller, Antoinette Lemoine, Pierre-Paul Bringuier, Anne-Gaëlle Le Coroller Soriano, Fabrice Barlesi, Bruno Ventelou
PLOS ONE | June 2020, Vol 15(7)
Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.
Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896
Integrating Epidemiological Information into MRI Reports Reduces Ensuing Radiologic Testing Costs Among Patients with Low Back Pain: A Controlled Study.
Bill Weeks, Jason Pike, Christopher J. Schaeffer, Mathew J. Devine, John M. Ventura, Jeremy Donath, Brian D. Justice
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | May 2020, Vol 46(6): pp. 365-368
Pay Gap Between Male And Female Physicians
Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou
Health Affairs | April 2020, Vol 39(5): pp. 906-906
Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk
Nancy E. Morden, Jonathan Skinner, Bill Weeks, Stephanie Tomlin, James Weinstein
Health Affairs | April 2020
Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351
Use of Z-Codes to Record Social Determinants of Health Among Fee-for-service Medicare Beneficiaries in 2017.
William B. Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James N. Weinstein, James N. Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden, Nancy E. Morden, James Weinstein, Bill Weeks
Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, Vol 35(3): pp. 952-955
A Decade of Modest Convergence in Geographic Variation in Per Capita Medicare Fee-for-Service Expenditures: Taxation Without Representation Is Not Sustainable; Is It Time for Taxpayer and Consumer Engagement?
Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, pp. 1-4
Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Non-demented Spanish Care Home Residents: a Before-After Comparison of Three Methods.
Curtis L. Petersen, David Curto, Manish K. Mishra, Pedro Cano, Bill Weeks
Journal of General Internal Medicine | December 2019, Vol 35(1): pp. 383-385
Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.
JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466
Association Between Community Economic Distress and Receipt of Recommended Services Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Enrollees.
Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden
Journal of General Internal Medicine | December 2018, Vol 34(12): pp. 2731-2732
Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients’ Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs
Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, James Weinstein
Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2018, Vol 33(9): pp. 1433-1435
DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication
How Do We Move Beyond Regression to the Mean?: Improving Health and Health Care.
Spine | January 2018, Vol 43(2): pp. 73-75
Using Publicly Available Data to Construct a Transparent Measure of Health Care Value: A Method and Initial Results.
Bill Weeks, Gregory R. Kotzbauer, James Weinstein
Milbank Quarterly | May 2016, Vol 94(2): pp. 314-333
DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication
Rates of admission for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in France in 2009–2010: trends, geographic variation, costs, and an international comparison
Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou, Alain Paraponaris
European Journal of Health Economics | April 2016, Vol 17(4): pp. 453-470
How Healthcare Is Different
The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108
The urgent need to create healthcare value.
Bill Weeks, Eric B Wadsworth, Stephen S Rauh, James Weinstein
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | April 2013, Vol 67(5): pp. 136
-
Association of Declines in End-of-Life Health Care Costs With Fee-for-Service Enrollee Per Capita Expenditures
Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein
March 2020
Improving Quality and Curbing Health Care Spending: Opportunities for the Congress and the Obama Administration
John E. Wennberg, Shannon Brownlee, Elliott S. Fisher, Jonathan S. Skinner, James Weinstein
December 2008
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