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Is Amazon's Alexa going to diagnose your next bout of flu? Although hypothetical in nature, Professor Timothy Hoff believes it's a future that's not far off. Hoff explores the current state of healthcare and its impact on patient-doctor relationships for News at Northeastern.

D'Amore-McKim School of Business Professor Gary Young examines the impact of the recent Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase partnership that will provide their employees with an alternative to the current healthcare system.

D'Amore-McKim School of Business Professor Timothy Hoff is featured in the latest issue of Northeastern Magazine highlighting his research and new book, Next in Line, in which he examines the setbacks of healthcare commodification. Hoff believes that the quality of doctor-patient relationships is at stake because of rushed, impersonal, and data heavy healthcare practices.

D'Amore-McKim School of Business professors Timothy Hoff, Patricia Illingworth and Gary Young weigh in on the recent CVS-Aetna merger, and what it means for the future of healthcare, on a business, ethical, and legal level for News@Northeastern.

Professor Timothy Hoff examines relational care blockades in the U.S. and the UK and highlights the critical need for more general practice physicians.

Professor Timothy Hoff examines the benefits of strong doctor-patient relationships and what the weakening of those ties means for health care in general.

Timothy Hoff, D'Amore-McKim School of Business Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems, and Health Policy, recently released a first-account narrative in Health Affairs that details his family's experience with Medicare's bundle payment program for hip replacements. His perspective as a healthcare policy expert and son are chronicled in this article and podcast that examines his mother's fall, surgery, care, and aftercare experience.

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Professor Timothy Hoff explains the impact of the changing payment landscape for healthcare professionals and how their task-heavy job roles are having a negative effect on worker happiness, increasing burnout, and creating new issues in the sphere.

Timothy Hoff, professor of management, healthcare systems, and health policy, was recently featured in a News@Northeastern article describing his published article based on ongoing collaborative research with colleagues from Oxford University's Said Business School and Green-Templeton College, in the January issue of the British Journal of Healthcare Management.