Melanie D. Whittington, PhD

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January 14th 2021

Cost Savings Associated With Electronic Specialty Consultations

Melanie D. Whittington, PhD P. Michael Ho, MD, PhD Susan R. Kirsh, MD, MPH Rachael R. Kenney, MA Jeffrey Todd-Stenberg, BA David H. Au, MD, MS Joseph Simonetti, MD, MPH

This retrospective cohort evaluation found that patients receiving electronic, compared with face-to-face, specialty consultation had significantly lower health care costs for at least 3 months.

December 4th 2018

Cost of Delivering Centralized and Decentralized Reminder/Recall for Vaccinations to Children and Adolescents in an ACO

Melanie D. Whittington, PhD Dennis Gurfinkel, MPH Laura P. Hurley, MD Steven Lockhart, MPH Brenda Beaty, MSPH Miriam Dickinson, PhD Heather Roth, MA Allison Kempe, MD, MPH

Centralized reminder/recall (R/R) is less costly to deliver than decentralized R/R for both children and adolescents when implemented for patients within an accountable care organization.