Daniel Zeltzer, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar

Daniel Zeltzer, PhD,  Koret Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and SIEPR, Stanford University (2023-2024), and Senior Lecturer with tenure at The Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University

April 18, 2024 | 12:00 pm ‐ 1:00 pm | Hybrid
Attendees may attend in person at 1104 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, or virtually. Zoom link here.

“Telemedicine and AI in Primary Care”
This seminar will present three papers examining the impacts of digital technologies on primary care delivery. The first two papers explore the adoption of telemedicine and its augmentation with digital devices for remote diagnostics. Findings suggest that the convenience of telemedicine access and its enhancement with digital devices increase primary care utilization and, in some cases, shift care towards less intensive settings, resulting in no increase in costs. The third paper evaluates the diagnostic accuracy of AI in virtual primary care, demonstrating high agreement between AI-generated diagnoses and providers across various diagnoses and patient demographics. These studies suggest a potential of telemedicine and AI to enhance healthcare provision without additional costs.

Daniel Zeltzer, PhD,  is currently a Koret Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and SIEPR, Stanford University (2023-2024), and a Senior Lecturer with tenure at The Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University. He is an affiliate of the CESifo and IZA research networks. Zeltzer’s research explores the intersections of Health Economics, Networks, and Machine Learning. His scholarly contributions include telemedicine, digital health technologies, end-of-life spending, and physician networks as moderators of technology diffusion and gender homophily in patient referrals. His work has been supported by the Israel Science Foundation and published in prominent academic journals such as the American Economic Journal, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of Health Economics, and JAMA Surgery. Zeltzer received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University and completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Princeton University.