Bill Weeks

Director, AI for Health Research

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- SCOPE: AI-Assisted Early Detection of Potentially Curable Pancreatic Neoplasms on CT from Local and Global Information
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Felipe Lopez-Ramirez, Alejandra Blanco, James Facciola, Stephen Kwak, Jason M. Zhao, Emir A. Syailendra, Florent Tixier, Rahul Dodhia, Ralph H. Hruban, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Linda C. Chu, Elliot K. Fishman
  
  February 2026
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Using AI to Improve Individual and Population Health
  
  Bill Weeks, James N Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health | February 2026
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Predictive Models for Kidney Offer Acceptance: Challenges and Strategies
  
  Carlos Martinez, Md Nasir, Meghana Kshirsagar, Cass McCharen , Rae Shean, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks
  
  Journal of Transplantation | January 2026
  
  Publication Project
- AI Research as a Continuous Clinical Service
  
  Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health | December 2025
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Association Between Average Annual US Medical Specialty Compensation and Percentage of Trainees in the Specialty Who Are Female
  
  Bill Weeks, Mayana Pereira, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Graduate Medical Education | December 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Benchmarking robustness of automated CT pancreas segmentation: achieving human-level reliability through human-in-the-loop optimization
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Felipe Lopez–Ramirez, Florent Tixier, Satomi Kawamoto, Alejandra Blanco, Rahul Dodhia, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Elliot K Fishman, Linda C Chu
  
  Radiology | December 2025
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Leveraging Large Language Models to Generate Multiple-Choice Questions for Ophthalmology Education
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Daniel B. Mummert, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Karine D. Bojikian
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | October 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Bridging Gaps in Ophthalmology Education Through Large Language Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Daniel B. Mummert , Joseph Carr, Robert R. McNabb, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Dale E. Fajardo
  
  AJO International | August 2025
  
  Publication PDF DOI Project
- Liver MRI proton density fat fraction inference from contrast enhanced CT images using deep learning: A proof-of-concept study
  
  Md Nasir, Yixi Xu, Kyle Hasenstab, Alekhya Yechoor, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Guilherme Moura Cunha
  
  PloS One | August 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Towards reliable use of artificial intelligence to classify otitis media using otoscopic images: Addressing bias and improving data quality
  
  Yixi Xu, Al-Rahim Habib, Graeme Crossland, Hemi Patel, Chris Perry, Kris Bock, Tony Lian, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Narinder Pal Singh
  
  July 2025
  
  Preprint Project
- Cancer Detection in Breast MRI Screening via Explainable AI Anomaly Detection
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Anum S. Kazerouni, Philipp Liznerski, Yixi Xu, Michael Hirano, Robert A. Vandermeulen, Marius Kloft, Elyse Blum, Adam M. Alessio, Christopher I. Li, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Habib Rahbar, Savannah C. Partridge
  
  Radiology | July 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project
- COVID-19 Pandemic-Era Changes in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in the United States
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Pediatrics | May 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Modeling protective meningococcal antibody responses and factors influencing antibody persistence following vaccination with MenAfriVac® using machine learning
  
  Md Nasir, Bill Weeks, Shahrzad Gholami, Anthony Marfin, Mark Alderson, Troy Leader, Brian Taliesin, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Niranjan Bhat
  
  PLoS One | May 2025
  
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- Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) of Small Metastatic Prostate Cancer Lesions on 3D PSMA PET Volumes Using Multi-Angle Maximum Intensity Projections
  
  Amirhosein Toosi, Sara Harsini, Ghasemali Divband, François Bénard, Carlos F. Uribe, Felipe Oviedo, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Cancers | May 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project
- AI-Enabled Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity in Low-Resource Settings
  
  Anthony Ortiz, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Susana Patiño, Jehú Torres, Juan Mármol, Carlos Serafin, Rahul Dodhia, Gabriela Saidman, Vanina Schbib, Brenda Peña, Guillermo Monteoliva, María Ana Martinez-Castellanos
  
  JAMA Network Open | April 2025
  
  Publication PDF DOI Project
- Leveraging public data: Changes in local economic distress and drug overdose deaths at the county level, 2000 – 2019
  
  Shaddy K. Saba, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  International Journal of Public Health | February 2025
  
  Publication Project
- Enhanced Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Detection: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Lee, Lowy Medical Research Institute
  
  Ophthalmology Science | January 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
  
  Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
  
  Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Machine learning to evaluate the relationship between social determinants and diabetes prevalence in New York City
  
  Darren Tanner, Yongkang Zhang, Ji Eun Chang, Peter Speyer, Elizabeth Adamson, Ann Aerts, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  BMJ Public Health | September 2024
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Performance of explainable artificial intelligence in guiding the management of patients with a pancreatic cyst
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Felipe Oviedo, Caleb Robinson, Linda Chu, Satomi Kawamoto , Elham Afghani, Jin He, Alison P Klein, Mike Goggins, Christopher L Wolfgang, Ammar A Javed, Rahul Dodhia, Nick Papadopolous, Ken Kinzler, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Elliot K Fishman, Anne Marie Lennon
  
  Pancreatology | September 2024
  
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- A Methodology for Using Large Language Models to Create User-Friendly Applications for Medicaid Redetermination and Other Social Services
  
  Sumanth Ratna, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Aneesh Chopra, Mayana Pereira
  
  International Journal of Public Health | August 2024
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Maternal Obesity and Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Jama Pediatrics | July 2024
  
  Publication Project
- AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  Published by Wiley | April 2024
  
  ISBN: 1394235879
  
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- Health and Wealth in America
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
  
  International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Self-Supervised Learning for Improved Optical Coherence Tomography Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B. Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Y. Lee
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | February 2024
  
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- Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017–2021
  
  Ji E Chang, Nate Smith, Zoe Lindenfeld, Bill Weeks
  
  Health Affairs Scholar | January 2024, Vol 2(1)
  
  Publication DOI Project
- All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
  
  Publication DOI Project
- All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
  
  Bill Weeks (wiweeks), James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
  
  DOI
- Towards an automated Segment Anything Model (SAM) for lesion segmentation in oncological PET/CT images
  
  S. Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, A. Rahmim
  
  2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium | December 2023
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Comprehensive Evaluation and Insights into the Use of Deep Neural Networks to Detect and Quantify Lymphoma Lesions in PET/CT Images
  
  Shadab Ahamed, Yixi Xu, C. Gowdy, O. JooH., I. Bloise, Don Wilson, Patrick Martineau, François Bénard, F. Yousefirizi, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Carlos F. Uribe, Arman Rahmim
  
  November 2023
  
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- An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ji E Chang, José A Pagán, Ann Aerts,, James N Weinstein
  
  International Journal for Equity in Health | September 2023
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Modeling to explore and challenge inherent assumptions when cultural norms have changed: a case study on left-handedness and life expectancy
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Md Nasir, Avleen Bijral, S V Subramanian, Bill Weeks
  
  Archives of Public Health | July 2023
  
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- Evaluating the Generalizability of Deep Learning Image Classification Algorithms to Detect Middle Ear Disease Using Otoscopy
  
  Al-Rahim Habib, Yixi Xu, Kris Bock, Shrestha Mohanty, Tina Sederholm, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chris Perry, Raymond Sacks, Narinder Singh
  
  Scientific Reports | April 2023
  
  Publication Project
- Beyond chatting: The opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in medicine and radiology (Editorial)
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Linda C. Chu , Steven P. Rowe, Elliot K. Fishman
  
  Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging | March 2023
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Identifying long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 and their association with social determinants of health in a cohort of over one million COVID-19 survivors
  
  Sumit Mukherjee, Meghana Kshirsagar, Nicholas Becker, Yixi Xu, Bill Weeks, Shwetak Patel, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Michael L. Jackson
  
  BMC Public Health | December 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- The Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality After Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Vaccine Type: Observational Study of Medical Claims Data
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Md Nasir, Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra Richardson
  
  JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
  
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- Association of COVID-19 vaccination prioritization and hospitalization among older Washingtonians
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra A. Richardson, Bill Weeks
  
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | June 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)
  
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- 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
  
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- 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
  
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- 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
  
  Publication Project
- A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Spine | October 2020
  
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- 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)
  
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- 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
  
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- 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)
  
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- 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
  
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- Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896
  
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- 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
  
  DOI Preprint Project Project
- Pay Gap Between Male And Female Physicians
  
  Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou
  
  Health Affairs | April 2020, Vol 39(5): pp. 906-906
  
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- 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
  
  Publication Project Project
- Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351
  
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- 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
  
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- 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
  
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- 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
  
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- Comparing Three Methods for Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Demented Spanish Care Home Residents.
  
  Bill Weeks, Manish K. Mishra, David Curto, Curtis L. Petersen, Pedro Cano, Yulin Hswen, Silvia Villamarín Serra, Glyn Elwyn, Marjorie M. Godfrey, Pedro Sánchez Soro, José Francisco Tomás
  
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | June 2019, Vol 67(7): pp. 1444-1453
  
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- Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466
  
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- Development and Implementation of a Person-Centered, Technology-Enhanced Care Model For Managing Chronic Conditions: Cohort Study.
  
  Curtis L. Petersen, Bill Weeks, Olof Norin, James Weinstein
  
  Jmir mhealth and uhealth | March 2019, Vol 7(3)
  
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- Veterans Health Administration Hospitals Outperform Non–Veterans Health Administration Hospitals in Most Health Care Markets
  
  Bill Weeks, Alan N. West
  
  Annals of Internal Medicine | March 2019, Vol 170(6): pp. 426-428
  
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- Conservative Spine Care Pathway Implementation Is Associated with Reduced Health Care Expenditures in a Controlled, Before-After Observational Study
  
  Bill Weeks, Jason Pike, Jeremy Donath, Paul Fiacco, Brian D Justice
  
  Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2019, Vol 34(8): pp. 1381-1382
  
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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
  
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- Potential Unintended Effects of Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Program.
  
  Bill Weeks, Elliott S. Fisher
  
  JAMA | December 2018, Vol 321(1): pp. 106-107
  
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- Community Economic Distress and Changes in Medicare Patients’ End-of-Life Care Costs.
  
  Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, Bruno Ventelou, Todd Mackenzie, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of Palliative Medicine | May 2018, Vol 21(6): pp. 742-743
  
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- 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
  
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- Proportion of Decedents’ Expenditures Among Recent Reductions in Medicare Expenditures
  
  Bill Weeks, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Connor Freeh, James Weinstein
  
  JAMA Internal Medicine | April 2018, Vol 178(5): pp. 717-719
  
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- Physician Burnout-Overdiagnosis and Unproven Interventions.
  
  Bill Weeks
  
  JAMA Internal Medicine | March 2018, Vol 178(4): pp. 576-577
  
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- Episode-of-Care Characteristics and Costs for Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery in Hospitals Belonging to the High Value Healthcare Collaborative Compared With Similar Hospitals in the Same Health Care Markets.
  
  Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, David J. Ballard, Gary S. Kaplan, Brent James, James Weinstein
  
  Medical Care | May 2017, Vol 55(6): pp. 583-589
  
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- The High Value Healthcare Collaborative: Observational Analyses of Care Episodes for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Surgery.
  
  Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, Lyle S. Sorensen, Andrew L. Masica, Robert E. Nesse, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of Arthroplasty | February 2017, Vol 32(3): pp. 702-708
  
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- Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104
  
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- An Alternative Way to Provide Healthcare for Veterans.
  
  Bill Weeks
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | May 2016, Vol 129(6): pp. 554-556
  
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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
  
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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
  
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- Potential advantages of health system consolidation and integration.
  
  Bill Weeks, Robert A. Greene, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | September 2015, Vol 128(10): pp. 1050-1051
  
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- Performance in Year 1 of Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations.
  
  Bill Weeks, Robert A Greene, James Weinstein
  
  The New England Journal of Medicine | August 2015, Vol 373(8): pp. 777-777
  
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- Caveats to Consider When Calculating Healthcare Value
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | July 2015, Vol 128(8): pp. 802-803
  
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- Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models.
  
  Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S Fisher, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-105
  
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- Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models: Medicare officials want to expand alternative payment models to help slow the growth of healthcare costs and preserve the solvency of the program, currently anticipated to go bankrupt by 2030
  
  Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S. Fisher, James Weinstein
  
  Healthcare Financial Management | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-106
  
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- How Healthcare Is Different
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108
  
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- Value creation strategies for health care.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112
  
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- Value creation strategies for health care: to deal with the epidemic of overuse in health care, patient preferences must be incorporated into the healthcare decision-making process, value creation must be calculated from a population health perspective, and a clear payment mechanism that provides incentives for value must be implemented
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114
  
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- Continuity of Care and the Risk of Preventable Hospitalization in Older Adults
  
  David J. Nyweide, Denise L. Anthony, Julie P. W. Bynum, Robert L. Strawderman, Bill Weeks, Lawrence. P. Casalino, Elliott S. Fisher
  
  JAMA Internal Medicine | November 2013, Vol 173(20): pp. 1879-1885
  
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- Meta-analysis of the efficacy of treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder.
  
  Bradley V. Watts, Paula P. Schnurr, Lorna Mayo, Yinong Young-Xu, Matthew J. Friedman, Bill Weeks
  
  The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | June 2013, Vol 74(6): pp. 541-550
  
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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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- Publicly Reported Quality-Of-Care Measures Influenced Wisconsin Physician Groups To Improve Performance
  
  Geoffrey C. Lamb, Maureen A. Smith, Bill Weeks, Christopher Queram
  
  Health Affairs | February 2013, Vol 32(3): pp. 536-543
  
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- The unintended consequences of bundled payments.
  
  Bill Weeks, Stephen S. Rauh, Eric B. Wadsworth, James Weinstein
  
  Annals of Internal Medicine | December 2012, Vol 158(1): pp. 62-64
  
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- Where the United States spends its spine dollars: expenditures on different ambulatory services for the management of back and neck conditions.
  
  Matthew A. Davis, Tracy Onega, Bill Weeks, Jon D. Lurie
  
  Spine | August 2012, Vol 37(19): pp. 1693-1701
  
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- A Collaborative Of Leading Health Systems Finds Wide Variations In Total Knee Replacement Delivery And Takes Steps To Improve Value
  
  Ivan M. Tomek, Allison L. Sabel, Mark I. Froimson, George Muschler, David S. Jevsevar, Karl M. Koenig, David G. Lewallen, James M. Naessens, Lucy A. Savitz, James L. Westrich, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Health Affairs | May 2012, Vol 31(6): pp. 1329-1338
  
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- The Savings Illusion — Why Clinical Quality Improvement Fails to Deliver Bottom-Line Results
  
  Stephen S Rauh, Eric B Wadsworth, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The New England Journal of Medicine | December 2011, Vol 365(26)
  
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- Higher Health Care Quality And Bigger Savings Found At Large Multispecialty Medical Groups
  
  Bill Weeks, Daniel J. Gottlieb, David J. Nyweide, Jason M. Sutherland, Julie Bynum, Lawrence P. Casalino, Robin R. Gillies, Stephen M. Shortell, Elliott S. Fisher
  
  Health Affairs | April 2010, Vol 29(5): pp. 991-997
  
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- The fixed-cost dilemma: what counts when counting cost-reduction efforts?
  
  Stephen S Rauh, Eric Wadsworth, Bill Weeks
  
  Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | February 2010, Vol 64(3): pp. 60
  
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- Racial, Socioeconomic, and Rural–Urban Disparities in Obesity-Related Bariatric Surgery
  
  Amy E. Wallace, Yinong Young-Xu, David Hartley, Bill Weeks
  
  Obesity Surgery | January 2010, Vol 20(10): pp. 1354-1360
  
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- Relationship of Primary Care Physicians’ Patient Caseload With Measurement of Quality and Cost Performance
  
  David J. Nyweide, Bill Weeks, Daniel J. Gottlieb, Lawrence P. Casalino, Elliott S. Fisher
  
  JAMA | December 2009, Vol 302(22): pp. 2444-2450
  
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- Rural health care ethics: is there a literature?
  
  William Nelson, Gili Lushkov, Andrew Pomerantz, Bill Weeks
  
  American Journal of Bioethics | August 2006, Vol 6(2): pp. 44-50
  
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- Who Pays for Poor Surgical Quality? Building a Business Case for Quality Improvement
  
  Justin B. Dimick, Bill Weeks, Raj J. Karia, Smita Das, Darrell A. Campbell
  
  Journal of The American College of Surgeons | May 2006, Vol 202(6): pp. 933-937
  
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- Measuring patient safety climate: a review of surveys
  
  J B Colla, A C Bracken, L M Kinney, Bill Weeks
  
  Quality & Safety in Health Care | September 2005, Vol 14(5): pp. 364-366
  
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- Changes in authorship patterns in prestigious US medical journals.
  
  Bill Weeks, Amy E Wallace, Amy E Wallace, B.C.Surott Kimberly
  
  Social Science & Medicine | October 2004, Vol 59(9): pp. 1949-1954
  
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- Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life in Rural and Urban Veterans
  
  Bill Weeks, Lewis E. Kazis, Yujing Shen, Zhongxiao Cong, Xinhua S. Ren, Donald R. Miller, Austin Lee, Jonathan B. Perlin
  
  American Journal of Public Health | September 2004, Vol 94(10): pp. 1762-1767
  
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- Characteristics of Successful Quality Improvement Teams: Lessons from Five Collaborative Projects in the VHA
  
  Peter D. Mills, Bill Weeks
  
  The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | February 2004, Vol 30(3): pp. 152-162
  
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- Developing a culture of safety in the Veterans Health Administration.
  
  Bill Weeks, James P. Bagian
  
  October 2000
  
  Publication

- SCOPE: AI-Assisted Early Detection of Potentially Curable Pancreatic Neoplasms on CT from Local and Global Information
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Felipe Lopez-Ramirez, Alejandra Blanco, James Facciola, Stephen Kwak, Jason M. Zhao, Emir A. Syailendra, Florent Tixier, Rahul Dodhia, Ralph H. Hruban, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Linda C. Chu, Elliot K. Fishman
  
  February 2026
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Using AI to Improve Individual and Population Health
  
  Bill Weeks, James N Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health | February 2026
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Predictive Models for Kidney Offer Acceptance: Challenges and Strategies
  
  Carlos Martinez, Md Nasir, Meghana Kshirsagar, Cass McCharen , Rae Shean, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks
  
  Journal of Transplantation | January 2026
  
  Publication Project
- AI Research as a Continuous Clinical Service
  
  Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health | December 2025
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Association Between Average Annual US Medical Specialty Compensation and Percentage of Trainees in the Specialty Who Are Female
  
  Bill Weeks, Mayana Pereira, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Graduate Medical Education | December 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Benchmarking robustness of automated CT pancreas segmentation: achieving human-level reliability through human-in-the-loop optimization
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Felipe Lopez–Ramirez, Florent Tixier, Satomi Kawamoto, Alejandra Blanco, Rahul Dodhia, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Elliot K Fishman, Linda C Chu
  
  Radiology | December 2025
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Leveraging Large Language Models to Generate Multiple-Choice Questions for Ophthalmology Education
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Daniel B. Mummert, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Karine D. Bojikian
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | October 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Bridging Gaps in Ophthalmology Education Through Large Language Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Daniel B. Mummert , Joseph Carr, Robert R. McNabb, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Dale E. Fajardo
  
  AJO International | August 2025
  
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- Liver MRI proton density fat fraction inference from contrast enhanced CT images using deep learning: A proof-of-concept study
  
  Md Nasir, Yixi Xu, Kyle Hasenstab, Alekhya Yechoor, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Guilherme Moura Cunha
  
  PloS One | August 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Towards reliable use of artificial intelligence to classify otitis media using otoscopic images: Addressing bias and improving data quality
  
  Yixi Xu, Al-Rahim Habib, Graeme Crossland, Hemi Patel, Chris Perry, Kris Bock, Tony Lian, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Narinder Pal Singh
  
  July 2025
  
  Preprint Project
- Cancer Detection in Breast MRI Screening via Explainable AI Anomaly Detection
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Anum S. Kazerouni, Philipp Liznerski, Yixi Xu, Michael Hirano, Robert A. Vandermeulen, Marius Kloft, Elyse Blum, Adam M. Alessio, Christopher I. Li, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Habib Rahbar, Savannah C. Partridge
  
  Radiology | July 2025
  
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- COVID-19 Pandemic-Era Changes in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in the United States
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Pediatrics | May 2025
  
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- Modeling protective meningococcal antibody responses and factors influencing antibody persistence following vaccination with MenAfriVac® using machine learning
  
  Md Nasir, Bill Weeks, Shahrzad Gholami, Anthony Marfin, Mark Alderson, Troy Leader, Brian Taliesin, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Niranjan Bhat
  
  PLoS One | May 2025
  
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- Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) of Small Metastatic Prostate Cancer Lesions on 3D PSMA PET Volumes Using Multi-Angle Maximum Intensity Projections
  
  Amirhosein Toosi, Sara Harsini, Ghasemali Divband, François Bénard, Carlos F. Uribe, Felipe Oviedo, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Cancers | May 2025
  
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- AI-Enabled Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity in Low-Resource Settings
  
  Anthony Ortiz, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Susana Patiño, Jehú Torres, Juan Mármol, Carlos Serafin, Rahul Dodhia, Gabriela Saidman, Vanina Schbib, Brenda Peña, Guillermo Monteoliva, María Ana Martinez-Castellanos
  
  JAMA Network Open | April 2025
  
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- Enhanced Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Detection: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Lee, Lowy Medical Research Institute
  
  Ophthalmology Science | January 2025
  
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- Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
  
  Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Machine learning to evaluate the relationship between social determinants and diabetes prevalence in New York City
  
  Darren Tanner, Yongkang Zhang, Ji Eun Chang, Peter Speyer, Elizabeth Adamson, Ann Aerts, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  BMJ Public Health | September 2024
  
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- Performance of explainable artificial intelligence in guiding the management of patients with a pancreatic cyst
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Felipe Oviedo, Caleb Robinson, Linda Chu, Satomi Kawamoto , Elham Afghani, Jin He, Alison P Klein, Mike Goggins, Christopher L Wolfgang, Ammar A Javed, Rahul Dodhia, Nick Papadopolous, Ken Kinzler, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Elliot K Fishman, Anne Marie Lennon
  
  Pancreatology | September 2024
  
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- A Methodology for Using Large Language Models to Create User-Friendly Applications for Medicaid Redetermination and Other Social Services
  
  Sumanth Ratna, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Aneesh Chopra, Mayana Pereira
  
  International Journal of Public Health | August 2024
  
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- Maternal Obesity and Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Jama Pediatrics | July 2024
  
  Publication Project
- AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  Published by Wiley | April 2024
  
  ISBN: 1394235879
  
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- Health and Wealth in America
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
  
  International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Self-Supervised Learning for Improved Optical Coherence Tomography Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B. Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Y. Lee
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | February 2024
  
  Publication Project
- Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017–2021
  
  Ji E Chang, Nate Smith, Zoe Lindenfeld, Bill Weeks
  
  Health Affairs Scholar | January 2024, Vol 2(1)
  
  Publication DOI Project
- All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
  
  Bill Weeks (wiweeks), James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
  
  DOI
- Towards an automated Segment Anything Model (SAM) for lesion segmentation in oncological PET/CT images
  
  S. Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, A. Rahmim
  
  2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium | December 2023
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Comprehensive Evaluation and Insights into the Use of Deep Neural Networks to Detect and Quantify Lymphoma Lesions in PET/CT Images
  
  Shadab Ahamed, Yixi Xu, C. Gowdy, O. JooH., I. Bloise, Don Wilson, Patrick Martineau, François Bénard, F. Yousefirizi, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Carlos F. Uribe, Arman Rahmim
  
  November 2023
  
  DOI Publication Github
- An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ji E Chang, José A Pagán, Ann Aerts,, James N Weinstein
  
  International Journal for Equity in Health | September 2023
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Modeling to explore and challenge inherent assumptions when cultural norms have changed: a case study on left-handedness and life expectancy
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Md Nasir, Avleen Bijral, S V Subramanian, Bill Weeks
  
  Archives of Public Health | July 2023
  
  Publication PDF
- Evaluating the Generalizability of Deep Learning Image Classification Algorithms to Detect Middle Ear Disease Using Otoscopy
  
  Al-Rahim Habib, Yixi Xu, Kris Bock, Shrestha Mohanty, Tina Sederholm, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chris Perry, Raymond Sacks, Narinder Singh
  
  Scientific Reports | April 2023
  
  Publication Project
- Beyond chatting: The opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in medicine and radiology (Editorial)
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Linda C. Chu , Steven P. Rowe, Elliot K. Fishman
  
  Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging | March 2023
  
  Publication DOI Project
- The Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality After Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Vaccine Type: Observational Study of Medical Claims Data
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Md Nasir, Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra Richardson
  
  JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- 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
  
  Publication Project
- 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
  
  Publication Project Project
- Developing a culture of safety in the Veterans Health Administration.
  
  Bill Weeks, James P. Bagian
  
  October 2000
  
  Publication
- SCOPE: AI-Assisted Early Detection of Potentially Curable Pancreatic Neoplasms on CT from Local and Global Information
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Felipe Lopez-Ramirez, Alejandra Blanco, James Facciola, Stephen Kwak, Jason M. Zhao, Emir A. Syailendra, Florent Tixier, Rahul Dodhia, Ralph H. Hruban, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Linda C. Chu, Elliot K. Fishman
  
  February 2026
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Predictive Models for Kidney Offer Acceptance: Challenges and Strategies
  
  Carlos Martinez, Md Nasir, Meghana Kshirsagar, Cass McCharen , Rae Shean, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks
  
  Journal of Transplantation | January 2026
  
  Publication Project
- Association Between Average Annual US Medical Specialty Compensation and Percentage of Trainees in the Specialty Who Are Female
  
  Bill Weeks, Mayana Pereira, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Graduate Medical Education | December 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Benchmarking robustness of automated CT pancreas segmentation: achieving human-level reliability through human-in-the-loop optimization
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Felipe Lopez–Ramirez, Florent Tixier, Satomi Kawamoto, Alejandra Blanco, Rahul Dodhia, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Elliot K Fishman, Linda C Chu
  
  Radiology | December 2025
  
  Publication DOI PDF Project
- Leveraging Large Language Models to Generate Multiple-Choice Questions for Ophthalmology Education
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Daniel B. Mummert, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Karine D. Bojikian
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | October 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Bridging Gaps in Ophthalmology Education Through Large Language Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Daniel B. Mummert , Joseph Carr, Robert R. McNabb, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Dale E. Fajardo
  
  AJO International | August 2025
  
  Publication PDF DOI Project
- Liver MRI proton density fat fraction inference from contrast enhanced CT images using deep learning: A proof-of-concept study
  
  Md Nasir, Yixi Xu, Kyle Hasenstab, Alekhya Yechoor, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Guilherme Moura Cunha
  
  PloS One | August 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Towards reliable use of artificial intelligence to classify otitis media using otoscopic images: Addressing bias and improving data quality
  
  Yixi Xu, Al-Rahim Habib, Graeme Crossland, Hemi Patel, Chris Perry, Kris Bock, Tony Lian, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Narinder Pal Singh
  
  July 2025
  
  Preprint Project
- Cancer Detection in Breast MRI Screening via Explainable AI Anomaly Detection
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Anum S. Kazerouni, Philipp Liznerski, Yixi Xu, Michael Hirano, Robert A. Vandermeulen, Marius Kloft, Elyse Blum, Adam M. Alessio, Christopher I. Li, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Habib Rahbar, Savannah C. Partridge
  
  Radiology | July 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project
- COVID-19 Pandemic-Era Changes in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in the United States
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Pediatrics | May 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Modeling protective meningococcal antibody responses and factors influencing antibody persistence following vaccination with MenAfriVac® using machine learning
  
  Md Nasir, Bill Weeks, Shahrzad Gholami, Anthony Marfin, Mark Alderson, Troy Leader, Brian Taliesin, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Niranjan Bhat
  
  PLoS One | May 2025
  
  Publication DOI PDF
- Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) of Small Metastatic Prostate Cancer Lesions on 3D PSMA PET Volumes Using Multi-Angle Maximum Intensity Projections
  
  Amirhosein Toosi, Sara Harsini, Ghasemali Divband, François Bénard, Carlos F. Uribe, Felipe Oviedo, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Cancers | May 2025
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Leveraging public data: Changes in local economic distress and drug overdose deaths at the county level, 2000 – 2019
  
  Shaddy K. Saba, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  International Journal of Public Health | February 2025
  
  Publication Project
- Enhanced Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Detection: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Lee, Lowy Medical Research Institute
  
  Ophthalmology Science | January 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
  
  Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
  
  Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Machine learning to evaluate the relationship between social determinants and diabetes prevalence in New York City
  
  Darren Tanner, Yongkang Zhang, Ji Eun Chang, Peter Speyer, Elizabeth Adamson, Ann Aerts, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  BMJ Public Health | September 2024
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Performance of explainable artificial intelligence in guiding the management of patients with a pancreatic cyst
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Felipe Oviedo, Caleb Robinson, Linda Chu, Satomi Kawamoto , Elham Afghani, Jin He, Alison P Klein, Mike Goggins, Christopher L Wolfgang, Ammar A Javed, Rahul Dodhia, Nick Papadopolous, Ken Kinzler, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Elliot K Fishman, Anne Marie Lennon
  
  Pancreatology | September 2024
  
  Publication PDF Project
- A Methodology for Using Large Language Models to Create User-Friendly Applications for Medicaid Redetermination and Other Social Services
  
  Sumanth Ratna, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Aneesh Chopra, Mayana Pereira
  
  International Journal of Public Health | August 2024
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Maternal Obesity and Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Jama Pediatrics | July 2024
  
  Publication Project
- Health and Wealth in America
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
  
  International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Self-Supervised Learning for Improved Optical Coherence Tomography Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B. Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Y. Lee
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | February 2024
  
  Publication Project
- Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017–2021
  
  Ji E Chang, Nate Smith, Zoe Lindenfeld, Bill Weeks
  
  Health Affairs Scholar | January 2024, Vol 2(1)
  
  Publication DOI Project
- All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
  
  Publication DOI Project
- All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
  
  Bill Weeks (wiweeks), James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
  
  DOI
- Towards an automated Segment Anything Model (SAM) for lesion segmentation in oncological PET/CT images
  
  S. Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, A. Rahmim
  
  2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium | December 2023
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Comprehensive Evaluation and Insights into the Use of Deep Neural Networks to Detect and Quantify Lymphoma Lesions in PET/CT Images
  
  Shadab Ahamed, Yixi Xu, C. Gowdy, O. JooH., I. Bloise, Don Wilson, Patrick Martineau, François Bénard, F. Yousefirizi, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Carlos F. Uribe, Arman Rahmim
  
  November 2023
  
  DOI Publication Github
- An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ji E Chang, José A Pagán, Ann Aerts,, James N Weinstein
  
  International Journal for Equity in Health | September 2023
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Modeling to explore and challenge inherent assumptions when cultural norms have changed: a case study on left-handedness and life expectancy
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Md Nasir, Avleen Bijral, S V Subramanian, Bill Weeks
  
  Archives of Public Health | July 2023
  
  Publication PDF
- Evaluating the Generalizability of Deep Learning Image Classification Algorithms to Detect Middle Ear Disease Using Otoscopy
  
  Al-Rahim Habib, Yixi Xu, Kris Bock, Shrestha Mohanty, Tina Sederholm, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chris Perry, Raymond Sacks, Narinder Singh
  
  Scientific Reports | April 2023
  
  Publication Project
- Beyond chatting: The opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in medicine and radiology (Editorial)
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Linda C. Chu , Steven P. Rowe, Elliot K. Fishman
  
  Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging | March 2023
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Identifying long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 and their association with social determinants of health in a cohort of over one million COVID-19 survivors
  
  Sumit Mukherjee, Meghana Kshirsagar, Nicholas Becker, Yixi Xu, Bill Weeks, Shwetak Patel, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Michael L. Jackson
  
  BMC Public Health | December 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- The Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality After Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Vaccine Type: Observational Study of Medical Claims Data
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Md Nasir, Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra Richardson
  
  JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
  
  Publication PDF Project Project
- Association of COVID-19 vaccination prioritization and hospitalization among older Washingtonians
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra A. Richardson, Bill Weeks
  
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | June 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)
  
  Publication PDF
- 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
  
  PDF Publication
- 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
  
  PDF
- 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
  
  DOI Publication
- 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
  
  Publication Project
- A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Spine | October 2020
  
  DOI
- 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)
  
  DOI Publication
- 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
  
  DOI
- 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)
  
  DOI PDF
- Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896
  
  PDF DOI
- 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
  
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- 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
  
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- Pay Gap Between Male And Female Physicians
  
  Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou
  
  Health Affairs | April 2020, Vol 39(5): pp. 906-906
  
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- 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
  
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- Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351
  
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- 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
  
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- 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
  
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- 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
  
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- Comparing Three Methods for Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Demented Spanish Care Home Residents.
  
  Bill Weeks, Manish K. Mishra, David Curto, Curtis L. Petersen, Pedro Cano, Yulin Hswen, Silvia Villamarín Serra, Glyn Elwyn, Marjorie M. Godfrey, Pedro Sánchez Soro, José Francisco Tomás
  
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | June 2019, Vol 67(7): pp. 1444-1453
  
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- Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466
  
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- Development and Implementation of a Person-Centered, Technology-Enhanced Care Model For Managing Chronic Conditions: Cohort Study.
  
  Curtis L. Petersen, Bill Weeks, Olof Norin, James Weinstein
  
  Jmir mhealth and uhealth | March 2019, Vol 7(3)
  
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- Veterans Health Administration Hospitals Outperform Non–Veterans Health Administration Hospitals in Most Health Care Markets
  
  Bill Weeks, Alan N. West
  
  Annals of Internal Medicine | March 2019, Vol 170(6): pp. 426-428
  
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- Conservative Spine Care Pathway Implementation Is Associated with Reduced Health Care Expenditures in a Controlled, Before-After Observational Study
  
  Bill Weeks, Jason Pike, Jeremy Donath, Paul Fiacco, Brian D Justice
  
  Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2019, Vol 34(8): pp. 1381-1382
  
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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
  
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- Potential Unintended Effects of Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Program.
  
  Bill Weeks, Elliott S. Fisher
  
  JAMA | December 2018, Vol 321(1): pp. 106-107
  
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- Community Economic Distress and Changes in Medicare Patients’ End-of-Life Care Costs.
  
  Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, Bruno Ventelou, Todd Mackenzie, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of Palliative Medicine | May 2018, Vol 21(6): pp. 742-743
  
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- 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
  
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- Proportion of Decedents’ Expenditures Among Recent Reductions in Medicare Expenditures
  
  Bill Weeks, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Connor Freeh, James Weinstein
  
  JAMA Internal Medicine | April 2018, Vol 178(5): pp. 717-719
  
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- Physician Burnout-Overdiagnosis and Unproven Interventions.
  
  Bill Weeks
  
  JAMA Internal Medicine | March 2018, Vol 178(4): pp. 576-577
  
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- Episode-of-Care Characteristics and Costs for Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery in Hospitals Belonging to the High Value Healthcare Collaborative Compared With Similar Hospitals in the Same Health Care Markets.
  
  Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, David J. Ballard, Gary S. Kaplan, Brent James, James Weinstein
  
  Medical Care | May 2017, Vol 55(6): pp. 583-589
  
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- The High Value Healthcare Collaborative: Observational Analyses of Care Episodes for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Surgery.
  
  Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, Lyle S. Sorensen, Andrew L. Masica, Robert E. Nesse, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of Arthroplasty | February 2017, Vol 32(3): pp. 702-708
  
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- Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104
  
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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
  
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- An Alternative Way to Provide Healthcare for Veterans.
  
  Bill Weeks
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | May 2016, Vol 129(6): pp. 554-556
  
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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
  
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- Potential advantages of health system consolidation and integration.
  
  Bill Weeks, Robert A. Greene, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | September 2015, Vol 128(10): pp. 1050-1051
  
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- Performance in Year 1 of Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations.
  
  Bill Weeks, Robert A Greene, James Weinstein
  
  The New England Journal of Medicine | August 2015, Vol 373(8): pp. 777-777
  
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- Caveats to Consider When Calculating Healthcare Value
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | July 2015, Vol 128(8): pp. 802-803
  
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- Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models: Medicare officials want to expand alternative payment models to help slow the growth of healthcare costs and preserve the solvency of the program, currently anticipated to go bankrupt by 2030
  
  Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S. Fisher, James Weinstein
  
  Healthcare Financial Management | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-106
  
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- Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models.
  
  Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S Fisher, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-105
  
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- How Healthcare Is Different
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108
  
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- Value creation strategies for health care: to deal with the epidemic of overuse in health care, patient preferences must be incorporated into the healthcare decision-making process, value creation must be calculated from a population health perspective, and a clear payment mechanism that provides incentives for value must be implemented
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114
  
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- Value creation strategies for health care.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112
  
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- Continuity of Care and the Risk of Preventable Hospitalization in Older Adults
  
  David J. Nyweide, Denise L. Anthony, Julie P. W. Bynum, Robert L. Strawderman, Bill Weeks, Lawrence. P. Casalino, Elliott S. Fisher
  
  JAMA Internal Medicine | November 2013, Vol 173(20): pp. 1879-1885
  
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- Meta-analysis of the efficacy of treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder.
  
  Bradley V. Watts, Paula P. Schnurr, Lorna Mayo, Yinong Young-Xu, Matthew J. Friedman, Bill Weeks
  
  The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | June 2013, Vol 74(6): pp. 541-550
  
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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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- Publicly Reported Quality-Of-Care Measures Influenced Wisconsin Physician Groups To Improve Performance
  
  Geoffrey C. Lamb, Maureen A. Smith, Bill Weeks, Christopher Queram
  
  Health Affairs | February 2013, Vol 32(3): pp. 536-543
  
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- The unintended consequences of bundled payments.
  
  Bill Weeks, Stephen S. Rauh, Eric B. Wadsworth, James Weinstein
  
  Annals of Internal Medicine | December 2012, Vol 158(1): pp. 62-64
  
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- Where the United States spends its spine dollars: expenditures on different ambulatory services for the management of back and neck conditions.
  
  Matthew A. Davis, Tracy Onega, Bill Weeks, Jon D. Lurie
  
  Spine | August 2012, Vol 37(19): pp. 1693-1701
  
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- A Collaborative Of Leading Health Systems Finds Wide Variations In Total Knee Replacement Delivery And Takes Steps To Improve Value
  
  Ivan M. Tomek, Allison L. Sabel, Mark I. Froimson, George Muschler, David S. Jevsevar, Karl M. Koenig, David G. Lewallen, James M. Naessens, Lucy A. Savitz, James L. Westrich, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Health Affairs | May 2012, Vol 31(6): pp. 1329-1338
  
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- The Savings Illusion — Why Clinical Quality Improvement Fails to Deliver Bottom-Line Results
  
  Stephen S Rauh, Eric B Wadsworth, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The New England Journal of Medicine | December 2011, Vol 365(26)
  
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- Higher Health Care Quality And Bigger Savings Found At Large Multispecialty Medical Groups
  
  Bill Weeks, Daniel J. Gottlieb, David J. Nyweide, Jason M. Sutherland, Julie Bynum, Lawrence P. Casalino, Robin R. Gillies, Stephen M. Shortell, Elliott S. Fisher
  
  Health Affairs | April 2010, Vol 29(5): pp. 991-997
  
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- The fixed-cost dilemma: what counts when counting cost-reduction efforts?
  
  Stephen S Rauh, Eric Wadsworth, Bill Weeks
  
  Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | February 2010, Vol 64(3): pp. 60
  
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- Racial, Socioeconomic, and Rural–Urban Disparities in Obesity-Related Bariatric Surgery
  
  Amy E. Wallace, Yinong Young-Xu, David Hartley, Bill Weeks
  
  Obesity Surgery | January 2010, Vol 20(10): pp. 1354-1360
  
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- Relationship of Primary Care Physicians’ Patient Caseload With Measurement of Quality and Cost Performance
  
  David J. Nyweide, Bill Weeks, Daniel J. Gottlieb, Lawrence P. Casalino, Elliott S. Fisher
  
  JAMA | December 2009, Vol 302(22): pp. 2444-2450
  
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- Rural health care ethics: is there a literature?
  
  William Nelson, Gili Lushkov, Andrew Pomerantz, Bill Weeks
  
  American Journal of Bioethics | August 2006, Vol 6(2): pp. 44-50
  
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- Who Pays for Poor Surgical Quality? Building a Business Case for Quality Improvement
  
  Justin B. Dimick, Bill Weeks, Raj J. Karia, Smita Das, Darrell A. Campbell
  
  Journal of The American College of Surgeons | May 2006, Vol 202(6): pp. 933-937
  
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- Measuring patient safety climate: a review of surveys
  
  J B Colla, A C Bracken, L M Kinney, Bill Weeks
  
  Quality & Safety in Health Care | September 2005, Vol 14(5): pp. 364-366
  
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- Changes in authorship patterns in prestigious US medical journals.
  
  Bill Weeks, Amy E Wallace, Amy E Wallace, B.C.Surott Kimberly
  
  Social Science & Medicine | October 2004, Vol 59(9): pp. 1949-1954
  
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- Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life in Rural and Urban Veterans
  
  Bill Weeks, Lewis E. Kazis, Yujing Shen, Zhongxiao Cong, Xinhua S. Ren, Donald R. Miller, Austin Lee, Jonathan B. Perlin
  
  American Journal of Public Health | September 2004, Vol 94(10): pp. 1762-1767
  
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- Characteristics of Successful Quality Improvement Teams: Lessons from Five Collaborative Projects in the VHA
  
  Peter D. Mills, Bill Weeks
  
  The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | February 2004, Vol 30(3): pp. 152-162
  
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- AI-Enabled Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity in Low-Resource Settings
  
  Anthony Ortiz, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Susana Patiño, Jehú Torres, Juan Mármol, Carlos Serafin, Rahul Dodhia, Gabriela Saidman, Vanina Schbib, Brenda Peña, Guillermo Monteoliva, María Ana Martinez-Castellanos
  
  JAMA Network Open | April 2025
  
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- Comprehensive Evaluation and Insights into the Use of Deep Neural Networks to Detect and Quantify Lymphoma Lesions in PET/CT Images
  
  Shadab Ahamed, Yixi Xu, C. Gowdy, O. JooH., I. Bloise, Don Wilson, Patrick Martineau, François Bénard, F. Yousefirizi, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Carlos F. Uribe, Arman Rahmim
  
  November 2023
  
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- Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
  
  Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
  
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- Modeling to explore and challenge inherent assumptions when cultural norms have changed: a case study on left-handedness and life expectancy
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Md Nasir, Avleen Bijral, S V Subramanian, Bill Weeks
  
  Archives of Public Health | July 2023
  
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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
  
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- SCOPE: AI-Assisted Early Detection of Potentially Curable Pancreatic Neoplasms on CT from Local and Global Information
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Felipe Lopez-Ramirez, Alejandra Blanco, James Facciola, Stephen Kwak, Jason M. Zhao, Emir A. Syailendra, Florent Tixier, Rahul Dodhia, Ralph H. Hruban, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Linda C. Chu, Elliot K. Fishman
  
  February 2026
  
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- Towards reliable use of artificial intelligence to classify otitis media using otoscopic images: Addressing bias and improving data quality
  
  Yixi Xu, Al-Rahim Habib, Graeme Crossland, Hemi Patel, Chris Perry, Kris Bock, Tony Lian, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Narinder Pal Singh
  
  July 2025
  
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- 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
  
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- Using AI to Improve Individual and Population Health
  
  Bill Weeks, James N Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health | February 2026
  
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- Predictive Models for Kidney Offer Acceptance: Challenges and Strategies
  
  Carlos Martinez, Md Nasir, Meghana Kshirsagar, Cass McCharen , Rae Shean, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks
  
  Journal of Transplantation | January 2026
  
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- AI Research as a Continuous Clinical Service
  
  Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health | December 2025
  
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- Association Between Average Annual US Medical Specialty Compensation and Percentage of Trainees in the Specialty Who Are Female
  
  Bill Weeks, Mayana Pereira, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Graduate Medical Education | December 2025
  
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- Benchmarking robustness of automated CT pancreas segmentation: achieving human-level reliability through human-in-the-loop optimization
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Felipe Lopez–Ramirez, Florent Tixier, Satomi Kawamoto, Alejandra Blanco, Rahul Dodhia, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Elliot K Fishman, Linda C Chu
  
  Radiology | December 2025
  
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- Leveraging Large Language Models to Generate Multiple-Choice Questions for Ophthalmology Education
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Daniel B. Mummert, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Karine D. Bojikian
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | October 2025
  
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- Bridging Gaps in Ophthalmology Education Through Large Language Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Beth Wilson, Sarah Page, Daniel B. Mummert , Joseph Carr, Robert R. McNabb, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Dale E. Fajardo, Dale E. Fajardo
  
  AJO International | August 2025
  
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- Liver MRI proton density fat fraction inference from contrast enhanced CT images using deep learning: A proof-of-concept study
  
  Md Nasir, Yixi Xu, Kyle Hasenstab, Alekhya Yechoor, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Guilherme Moura Cunha
  
  PloS One | August 2025
  
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- Cancer Detection in Breast MRI Screening via Explainable AI Anomaly Detection
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Anum S. Kazerouni, Philipp Liznerski, Yixi Xu, Michael Hirano, Robert A. Vandermeulen, Marius Kloft, Elyse Blum, Adam M. Alessio, Christopher I. Li, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Habib Rahbar, Savannah C. Partridge
  
  Radiology | July 2025
  
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- COVID-19 Pandemic-Era Changes in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in the United States
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Pediatrics | May 2025
  
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- Modeling protective meningococcal antibody responses and factors influencing antibody persistence following vaccination with MenAfriVac® using machine learning
  
  Md Nasir, Bill Weeks, Shahrzad Gholami, Anthony Marfin, Mark Alderson, Troy Leader, Brian Taliesin, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Niranjan Bhat
  
  PLoS One | May 2025
  
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- Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) of Small Metastatic Prostate Cancer Lesions on 3D PSMA PET Volumes Using Multi-Angle Maximum Intensity Projections
  
  Amirhosein Toosi, Sara Harsini, Ghasemali Divband, François Bénard, Carlos F. Uribe, Felipe Oviedo, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Cancers | May 2025
  
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- AI-Enabled Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity in Low-Resource Settings
  
  Anthony Ortiz, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Susana Patiño, Jehú Torres, Juan Mármol, Carlos Serafin, Rahul Dodhia, Gabriela Saidman, Vanina Schbib, Brenda Peña, Guillermo Monteoliva, María Ana Martinez-Castellanos
  
  JAMA Network Open | April 2025
  
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- Leveraging public data: Changes in local economic distress and drug overdose deaths at the county level, 2000 – 2019
  
  Shaddy K. Saba, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  International Journal of Public Health | February 2025
  
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- Enhanced Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Detection: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Models
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Lee, Lowy Medical Research Institute
  
  Ophthalmology Science | January 2025
  
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- Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
  
  Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
  
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- Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
  
  Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
  
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- Machine learning to evaluate the relationship between social determinants and diabetes prevalence in New York City
  
  Darren Tanner, Yongkang Zhang, Ji Eun Chang, Peter Speyer, Elizabeth Adamson, Ann Aerts, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  BMJ Public Health | September 2024
  
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- Performance of explainable artificial intelligence in guiding the management of patients with a pancreatic cyst
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Felipe Oviedo, Caleb Robinson, Linda Chu, Satomi Kawamoto , Elham Afghani, Jin He, Alison P Klein, Mike Goggins, Christopher L Wolfgang, Ammar A Javed, Rahul Dodhia, Nick Papadopolous, Ken Kinzler, Ralph H Hruban, Bill Weeks, Elliot K Fishman, Anne Marie Lennon
  
  Pancreatology | September 2024
  
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- A Methodology for Using Large Language Models to Create User-Friendly Applications for Medicaid Redetermination and Other Social Services
  
  Sumanth Ratna, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Aneesh Chopra, Mayana Pereira
  
  International Journal of Public Health | August 2024
  
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- Maternal Obesity and Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
  
  Darren Tanner, Jan-Marino Ramirez, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Edwin A. Mitchell
  
  Jama Pediatrics | July 2024
  
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- Health and Wealth in America
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
  
  International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
  
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- Self-Supervised Learning for Improved Optical Coherence Tomography Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2
  
  Shahrzad Gholami, Lea Scheppke, Meghana Kshirsagar, Yue Wu, Rahul Dodhia, Roberto Bonelli, Irene Leung, Ferenc B. Sallo, Alyson Muldrew, Catherine Jamison, Tunde Peto, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Martin Friedlander, Aaron Y. Lee
  
  JAMA Ophthalmology | February 2024
  
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- Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017–2021
  
  Ji E Chang, Nate Smith, Zoe Lindenfeld, Bill Weeks
  
  Health Affairs Scholar | January 2024, Vol 2(1)
  
  Publication DOI Project
- All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
  
  Publication DOI Project
- All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being
  
  Bill Weeks (wiweeks), James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68
  
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- An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Ji E Chang, José A Pagán, Ann Aerts,, James N Weinstein
  
  International Journal for Equity in Health | September 2023
  
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- Modeling to explore and challenge inherent assumptions when cultural norms have changed: a case study on left-handedness and life expectancy
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Md Nasir, Avleen Bijral, S V Subramanian, Bill Weeks
  
  Archives of Public Health | July 2023
  
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- Evaluating the Generalizability of Deep Learning Image Classification Algorithms to Detect Middle Ear Disease Using Otoscopy
  
  Al-Rahim Habib, Yixi Xu, Kris Bock, Shrestha Mohanty, Tina Sederholm, Bill Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chris Perry, Raymond Sacks, Narinder Singh
  
  Scientific Reports | April 2023
  
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- Beyond chatting: The opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in medicine and radiology (Editorial)
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Linda C. Chu , Steven P. Rowe, Elliot K. Fishman
  
  Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging | March 2023
  
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- Identifying long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 and their association with social determinants of health in a cohort of over one million COVID-19 survivors
  
  Sumit Mukherjee, Meghana Kshirsagar, Nicholas Becker, Yixi Xu, Bill Weeks, Shwetak Patel, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Michael L. Jackson
  
  BMC Public Health | December 2022
  
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- The Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality After Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Vaccine Type: Observational Study of Medical Claims Data
  
  Meghana Kshirsagar, Md Nasir, Sumit Mukherjee, Nicholas Becker, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra Richardson
  
  JMIR Public Health Surveillance | November 2022
  
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- Association of COVID-19 vaccination prioritization and hospitalization among older Washingtonians
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Barbra A. Richardson, Bill Weeks
  
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | June 2021
  
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- Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)
  
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- 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
  
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- 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
  
  PDF
- 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
  
  DOI Publication
- 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
  
  Publication Project
- A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Spine | October 2020
  
  DOI
- 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)
  
  DOI Publication
- 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
  
  DOI
- 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)
  
  DOI PDF
- Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896
  
  PDF DOI
- 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
  
  PDF DOI
- Pay Gap Between Male And Female Physicians
  
  Bill Weeks, Bruno Ventelou
  
  Health Affairs | April 2020, Vol 39(5): pp. 906-906
  
  PDF DOI
- 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
  
  Publication Project Project
- Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351
  
  DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI PDF Publication Publication
- 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
  
  PDF Publication Publication DOI
- 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
  
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- Comparing Three Methods for Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Demented Spanish Care Home Residents.
  
  Bill Weeks, Manish K. Mishra, David Curto, Curtis L. Petersen, Pedro Cano, Yulin Hswen, Silvia Villamarín Serra, Glyn Elwyn, Marjorie M. Godfrey, Pedro Sánchez Soro, José Francisco Tomás
  
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | June 2019, Vol 67(7): pp. 1444-1453
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF
- Development and Implementation of a Person-Centered, Technology-Enhanced Care Model For Managing Chronic Conditions: Cohort Study.
  
  Curtis L. Petersen, Bill Weeks, Olof Norin, James Weinstein
  
  Jmir mhealth and uhealth | March 2019, Vol 7(3)
  
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- Veterans Health Administration Hospitals Outperform Non–Veterans Health Administration Hospitals in Most Health Care Markets
  
  Bill Weeks, Alan N. West
  
  Annals of Internal Medicine | March 2019, Vol 170(6): pp. 426-428
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- Conservative Spine Care Pathway Implementation Is Associated with Reduced Health Care Expenditures in a Controlled, Before-After Observational Study
  
  Bill Weeks, Jason Pike, Jeremy Donath, Paul Fiacco, Brian D Justice
  
  Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2019, Vol 34(8): pp. 1381-1382
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication
- Potential Unintended Effects of Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Program.
  
  Bill Weeks, Elliott S. Fisher
  
  JAMA | December 2018, Vol 321(1): pp. 106-107
  
  DOI Publication Publication PDF
- Community Economic Distress and Changes in Medicare Patients’ End-of-Life Care Costs.
  
  Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, Bruno Ventelou, Todd Mackenzie, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of Palliative Medicine | May 2018, Vol 21(6): pp. 742-743
  
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- 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
  
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- Proportion of Decedents’ Expenditures Among Recent Reductions in Medicare Expenditures
  
  Bill Weeks, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Connor Freeh, James Weinstein
  
  JAMA Internal Medicine | April 2018, Vol 178(5): pp. 717-719
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication
- Physician Burnout-Overdiagnosis and Unproven Interventions.
  
  Bill Weeks
  
  JAMA Internal Medicine | March 2018, Vol 178(4): pp. 576-577
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- Episode-of-Care Characteristics and Costs for Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery in Hospitals Belonging to the High Value Healthcare Collaborative Compared With Similar Hospitals in the Same Health Care Markets.
  
  Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, David J. Ballard, Gary S. Kaplan, Brent James, James Weinstein
  
  Medical Care | May 2017, Vol 55(6): pp. 583-589
  
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- The High Value Healthcare Collaborative: Observational Analyses of Care Episodes for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Surgery.
  
  Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, Lyle S. Sorensen, Andrew L. Masica, Robert E. Nesse, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of Arthroplasty | February 2017, Vol 32(3): pp. 702-708
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication
- Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication PDF
- 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
- An Alternative Way to Provide Healthcare for Veterans.
  
  Bill Weeks
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | May 2016, Vol 129(6): pp. 554-556
  
  DOI 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
  
  PDF DOI
- Potential advantages of health system consolidation and integration.
  
  Bill Weeks, Robert A. Greene, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | September 2015, Vol 128(10): pp. 1050-1051
  
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- Performance in Year 1 of Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations.
  
  Bill Weeks, Robert A Greene, James Weinstein
  
  The New England Journal of Medicine | August 2015, Vol 373(8): pp. 777-777
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication
- Caveats to Consider When Calculating Healthcare Value
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | July 2015, Vol 128(8): pp. 802-803
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication
- Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models: Medicare officials want to expand alternative payment models to help slow the growth of healthcare costs and preserve the solvency of the program, currently anticipated to go bankrupt by 2030
  
  Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S. Fisher, James Weinstein
  
  Healthcare Financial Management | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-106
  
  Publication
- Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models.
  
  Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S Fisher, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-105
  
  Publication Publication
- How Healthcare Is Different
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108
  
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- Value creation strategies for health care: to deal with the epidemic of overuse in health care, patient preferences must be incorporated into the healthcare decision-making process, value creation must be calculated from a population health perspective, and a clear payment mechanism that provides incentives for value must be implemented
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114
  
  Publication
- Value creation strategies for health care.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112
  
  Publication
- Continuity of Care and the Risk of Preventable Hospitalization in Older Adults
  
  David J. Nyweide, Denise L. Anthony, Julie P. W. Bynum, Robert L. Strawderman, Bill Weeks, Lawrence. P. Casalino, Elliott S. Fisher
  
  JAMA Internal Medicine | November 2013, Vol 173(20): pp. 1879-1885
  
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- Meta-analysis of the efficacy of treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder.
  
  Bradley V. Watts, Paula P. Schnurr, Lorna Mayo, Yinong Young-Xu, Matthew J. Friedman, Bill Weeks
  
  The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | June 2013, Vol 74(6): pp. 541-550
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  Publication
- Publicly Reported Quality-Of-Care Measures Influenced Wisconsin Physician Groups To Improve Performance
  
  Geoffrey C. Lamb, Maureen A. Smith, Bill Weeks, Christopher Queram
  
  Health Affairs | February 2013, Vol 32(3): pp. 536-543
  
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- The unintended consequences of bundled payments.
  
  Bill Weeks, Stephen S. Rauh, Eric B. Wadsworth, James Weinstein
  
  Annals of Internal Medicine | December 2012, Vol 158(1): pp. 62-64
  
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- Where the United States spends its spine dollars: expenditures on different ambulatory services for the management of back and neck conditions.
  
  Matthew A. Davis, Tracy Onega, Bill Weeks, Jon D. Lurie
  
  Spine | August 2012, Vol 37(19): pp. 1693-1701
  
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- A Collaborative Of Leading Health Systems Finds Wide Variations In Total Knee Replacement Delivery And Takes Steps To Improve Value
  
  Ivan M. Tomek, Allison L. Sabel, Mark I. Froimson, George Muschler, David S. Jevsevar, Karl M. Koenig, David G. Lewallen, James M. Naessens, Lucy A. Savitz, James L. Westrich, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Health Affairs | May 2012, Vol 31(6): pp. 1329-1338
  
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- The Savings Illusion — Why Clinical Quality Improvement Fails to Deliver Bottom-Line Results
  
  Stephen S Rauh, Eric B Wadsworth, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The New England Journal of Medicine | December 2011, Vol 365(26)
  
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- Higher Health Care Quality And Bigger Savings Found At Large Multispecialty Medical Groups
  
  Bill Weeks, Daniel J. Gottlieb, David J. Nyweide, Jason M. Sutherland, Julie Bynum, Lawrence P. Casalino, Robin R. Gillies, Stephen M. Shortell, Elliott S. Fisher
  
  Health Affairs | April 2010, Vol 29(5): pp. 991-997
  
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- The fixed-cost dilemma: what counts when counting cost-reduction efforts?
  
  Stephen S Rauh, Eric Wadsworth, Bill Weeks
  
  Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | February 2010, Vol 64(3): pp. 60
  
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- Racial, Socioeconomic, and Rural–Urban Disparities in Obesity-Related Bariatric Surgery
  
  Amy E. Wallace, Yinong Young-Xu, David Hartley, Bill Weeks
  
  Obesity Surgery | January 2010, Vol 20(10): pp. 1354-1360
  
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- Relationship of Primary Care Physicians’ Patient Caseload With Measurement of Quality and Cost Performance
  
  David J. Nyweide, Bill Weeks, Daniel J. Gottlieb, Lawrence P. Casalino, Elliott S. Fisher
  
  JAMA | December 2009, Vol 302(22): pp. 2444-2450
  
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- Rural health care ethics: is there a literature?
  
  William Nelson, Gili Lushkov, Andrew Pomerantz, Bill Weeks
  
  American Journal of Bioethics | August 2006, Vol 6(2): pp. 44-50
  
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- Who Pays for Poor Surgical Quality? Building a Business Case for Quality Improvement
  
  Justin B. Dimick, Bill Weeks, Raj J. Karia, Smita Das, Darrell A. Campbell
  
  Journal of The American College of Surgeons | May 2006, Vol 202(6): pp. 933-937
  
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- Measuring patient safety climate: a review of surveys
  
  J B Colla, A C Bracken, L M Kinney, Bill Weeks
  
  Quality & Safety in Health Care | September 2005, Vol 14(5): pp. 364-366
  
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- Changes in authorship patterns in prestigious US medical journals.
  
  Bill Weeks, Amy E Wallace, Amy E Wallace, B.C.Surott Kimberly
  
  Social Science & Medicine | October 2004, Vol 59(9): pp. 1949-1954
  
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- Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life in Rural and Urban Veterans
  
  Bill Weeks, Lewis E. Kazis, Yujing Shen, Zhongxiao Cong, Xinhua S. Ren, Donald R. Miller, Austin Lee, Jonathan B. Perlin
  
  American Journal of Public Health | September 2004, Vol 94(10): pp. 1762-1767
  
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- Characteristics of Successful Quality Improvement Teams: Lessons from Five Collaborative Projects in the VHA
  
  Peter D. Mills, Bill Weeks
  
  The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | February 2004, Vol 30(3): pp. 152-162
  
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- Developing a culture of safety in the Veterans Health Administration.
  
  Bill Weeks, James P. Bagian
  
  October 2000
  
  Publication
- Comprehensive Evaluation and Insights into the Use of Deep Neural Networks to Detect and Quantify Lymphoma Lesions in PET/CT Images
  
  Shadab Ahamed, Yixi Xu, C. Gowdy, O. JooH., I. Bloise, Don Wilson, Patrick Martineau, François Bénard, F. Yousefirizi, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks, Carlos F. Uribe, Arman Rahmim
  
  November 2023
  
  DOI Publication Github
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF
- AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health
  
  Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  Published by Wiley | April 2024
  
  ISBN: 1394235879
  
  Publication
- Towards an automated Segment Anything Model (SAM) for lesion segmentation in oncological PET/CT images
  
  S. Ahamed, Yixi Xu, Rahul Dodhia, Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, A. Rahmim
  
  2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium | December 2023
  
  Publication DOI Project

Bill Weeks

Publications

SCOPE: AI-Assisted Early Detection of Potentially Curable Pancreatic Neoplasms on CT from Local and Global Information

Using AI to Improve Individual and Population Health

Predictive Models for Kidney Offer Acceptance: Challenges and Strategies

AI Research as a Continuous Clinical Service

Association Between Average Annual US Medical Specialty Compensation and Percentage of Trainees in the Specialty Who Are Female

Benchmarking robustness of automated CT pancreas segmentation: achieving human-level reliability through human-in-the-loop optimization

Leveraging Large Language Models to Generate Multiple-Choice Questions for Ophthalmology Education

Bridging Gaps in Ophthalmology Education Through Large Language Models

Liver MRI proton density fat fraction inference from contrast enhanced CT images using deep learning: A proof-of-concept study

Towards reliable use of artificial intelligence to classify otitis media using otoscopic images: Addressing bias and improving data quality

Cancer Detection in Breast MRI Screening via Explainable AI Anomaly Detection

COVID-19 Pandemic-Era Changes in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in the United States

Modeling protective meningococcal antibody responses and factors influencing antibody persistence following vaccination with MenAfriVac® using machine learning

Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) of Small Metastatic Prostate Cancer Lesions on 3D PSMA PET Volumes Using Multi-Angle Maximum Intensity Projections

AI-Enabled Screening for Retinopathy of Prematurity in Low-Resource Settings

Leveraging public data: Changes in local economic distress and drug overdose deaths at the county level, 2000 – 2019

Enhanced Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 Detection: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and Ensemble Models

Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs

Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice

Machine learning to evaluate the relationship between social determinants and diabetes prevalence in New York City

Performance of explainable artificial intelligence in guiding the management of patients with a pancreatic cyst

A Methodology for Using Large Language Models to Create User-Friendly Applications for Medicaid Redetermination and Other Social Services

Maternal Obesity and Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death

AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health

Health and Wealth in America

Self-Supervised Learning for Improved Optical Coherence Tomography Detection of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2

Hospital use of common Z-codes for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, 2017–2021

All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being

All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being

Towards an automated Segment Anything Model (SAM) for lesion segmentation in oncological PET/CT images

Comprehensive Evaluation and Insights into the Use of Deep Neural Networks to Detect and Quantify Lymphoma Lesions in PET/CT Images

An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health

Modeling to explore and challenge inherent assumptions when cultural norms have changed: a case study on left-handedness and life expectancy

Evaluating the Generalizability of Deep Learning Image Classification Algorithms to Detect Middle Ear Disease Using Otoscopy

Beyond chatting: The opportunities and challenges of ChatGPT in medicine and radiology (Editorial)

Identifying long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 and their association with social determinants of health in a cohort of over one million COVID-19 survivors

The Risk of Hospitalization and Mortality After Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Vaccine Type: Observational Study of Medical Claims Data

Association of COVID-19 vaccination prioritization and hospitalization among older Washingtonians

Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy

Improving Economic Conditions Matter for Mortality: Changes in Local Economic Distress Associated with Mortality Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Between 2003 and 2015

Examining the Prevalence of Previously Recorded Phenotypically Related Diagnoses Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Enrollees Newly Diagnosed with Mendelian Conditions

The Federal Health Authority, a Federal Reserve System for Health Care: COVID-19 Has Exposed a Need for Change

Using Internet Search Trends to Forecast Short-term Drug Overdose Deaths: A Case Study on Connecticut

A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example

Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse.

Point of View: “Correlates of Google Search Rankings for Spine Surgeons: An Analysis of Academic Pedigree, Social Media Presence, and Patient Ratings”.

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.

Integrating Epidemiological Information into MRI Reports Reduces Ensuing Radiologic Testing Costs Among Patients with Low Back Pain: A Controlled Study.

Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.

P0: Progress to zero: A simple metric to measure COVID-19 progress by country/region

Pay Gap Between Male And Female Physicians

Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk

Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance

Association of Declines in End-of-Life Health Care Costs With Fee-for-Service Enrollee Per Capita Expenditures

Use of Z-Codes to Record Social Determinants of Health Among Fee-for-service Medicare Beneficiaries in 2017.

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?

Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Non-demented Spanish Care Home Residents: a Before-After Comparison of Three Methods

Comparing Three Methods for Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Demented Spanish Care Home Residents.

Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.

Development and Implementation of a Person-Centered, Technology-Enhanced Care Model For Managing Chronic Conditions: Cohort Study.

Veterans Health Administration Hospitals Outperform Non–Veterans Health Administration Hospitals in Most Health Care Markets

Conservative Spine Care Pathway Implementation Is Associated with Reduced Health Care Expenditures in a Controlled, Before-After Observational Study

Association Between Community Economic Distress and Receipt of Recommended Services Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Enrollees.

Potential Unintended Effects of Medicare’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Program.

Community Economic Distress and Changes in Medicare Patients’ End-of-Life Care Costs.

Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients’ Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs

Proportion of Decedents’ Expenditures Among Recent Reductions in Medicare Expenditures

Physician Burnout-Overdiagnosis and Unproven Interventions.

Episode-of-Care Characteristics and Costs for Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery in Hospitals Belonging to the High Value Healthcare Collaborative Compared With Similar Hospitals in the Same Health Care Markets.

The High Value Healthcare Collaborative: Observational Analyses of Care Episodes for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Surgery.

Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America

An Alternative Way to Provide Healthcare for Veterans.

Using Publicly Available Data to Construct a Transparent Measure of Health Care Value: A Method and Initial Results.

Rates of admission for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in France in 2009–2010: trends, geographic variation, costs, and an international comparison

Potential advantages of health system consolidation and integration.

Performance in Year 1 of Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations.

Caveats to Consider When Calculating Healthcare Value

Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models.