The Tolan Center for Healthcare Research
Our research explores many aspects of the healthcare system—clinical quality and outcomes, equity and access, innovation, operations, and finance.
The aim of our healthcare research is to inform policymakers, industry leaders, students, and the public.
Our Faculty Research in Healthcare
Our faculty are recognized for their significant contributions to scholarship on the business of healthcare. See recent publications below.
Explore Dan Adelman's Healthcare Analytics Laboratory Research
Applications for Winter 2026 open in early November 2025.
Explore Dan Adelman's Healthcare Analytics Laboratory Research
In the Media
Our faculty and their research regularly appear in the media. See highlights below.
Read about the innovative approach the Healthcare Analytics Lab is taking to address one of the thorniest challenges facing health systems nationwide. Prof. Adelman and Booth alum Ken Kaufman share insights on the causes behind access issues and some potential strategies.
Read highlights from the work of Associate Professor Jonathan Dingel and PhD student Pauline Mourot (with Joshua Gottlieb and Maya Lozinski) about large healthcare markets that leverage their scale to produce high-quality care that patients travel to obtain.
Listen to Professor Dan Adelman's insights on measuring healthcare outcomes in this podcast episode of the Business of Medicine Series on ENT in a Nutshell, hosted by Dr. Ashley Nassiri.
Financial Times article featuring Professor Notowidigdo's research investigating health outcomes during the Great Recession.
Better Health Economics
Better Health Economics is a warts-and-all introduction to a field that is more exceptions than rules. Economists Tal Gross and Matthew J. Notowidigdo offer readers an accessible primer on the field’s essential concepts, a review of the latest research, and a framework for thinking about this increasingly imperfect market.
Our Data Sources
Below are some examples of data used by our faculty.
- American Hospital Association annual survey data
- California hospital discharge data
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) LDS and RIF claims and enrollment data (in partnership with the Health Data Policy Lab and others)
- Citeline TrialTrove and PharmaProjects
- Clarivate Competitive Intelligence
- Guidestar 990 tax forms from non-profit healthcare organizations (through the Rustandy Center)
- Health Care Cost Institute commercial claims data
- MarketScan® commercial claims data (in partnership with the Booth Center for Applied AI and Center for Health and the Social Sciences)
- Lightcast/EMSI Job Posting Analytics
- U.S. Renal Data System (USRDS)
- Real-world health system and provider data (in partnership with Center for Research Informatics and others).
Contact us for more information about industry data and partnerships, opportunities to combine healthcare with other data, and the request process for faculty and PhD students.
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