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Registry 01 · Domain
Healthcare
Seventy-five years of patient work, and a door held open for you.
Delivery, equity, and the system architecture of long-horizon health outcomes.
Classification
Research domain
Cross-disciplinary index
Brief / 01
Context record
Healthcare research at RAND treats delivery, payment, and outcomes as a single system, the unit of analysis is rarely a treatment in isolation and almost always the institutional context that determines whether it reaches people.
RAND ran the Health Insurance Experiment, still the largest and most influential controlled study of how insurance design shapes utilization and outcomes, and has maintained continuous leadership in payment reform, quality measurement, evidence synthesis, and health-system design since the 1970s.
RAND's Signature Themes in Healthcare
Payment reform and value-based care
How provider incentives shape clinical decisions, utilization, and outcomes, and which payment models actually produce better care at lower cost.
Evidence synthesis
Systematic reviews and the production of practice guidelines that translate research into clinical decisions.
Primary care delivery
Workforce, organization, and the system architecture that determines whether primary care can carry the load asked of it.
Behavioral and mental health
Access, integration with primary care, and the financing models that determine whether mental-health services reach the populations that need them.
Representative Work
RAND Health Insurance Experiment
RAND · Foundational study
Effects of Health Care Payment Models on Physician Practice
RAND · RR-869
Reshaping Behavioral Health Crisis Services
RAND · RR-A1736-1
Methodological Emphasis
Randomized and quasi-experimental design, systematic review, and large-scale claims and survey analytics.
Methodological Lineage →Affiliated Researchers