Timothy Hoff, professor of management, health-care systems and health policy at Northeastern University, writes about a Medicare pilot payment program that raises questions about motive and care for hip surgery.

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science and director of Big Data and Quantitative Methods Initiatives at Northeastern University, cast doubt on the claim that former FBI director James Comey tipped the election in Donald Trump’s favor with the Oct. 28 release of a letter announcing the review of possible new evidence in the Clinton […]

Ben Lippolis flew across the country to take part in a student hyperloop competition hosted by Elon Musk. Lippolis, a recent graduate of Northeastern University, teamed up with some classmates and students from Canada’s Memorial University of Newfoundland to form team Paradigm. They’ve been toiling away to construct a passenger train that can travel at […]

People near the end of their lives sometimes don’t get the chance to have these important conversations before it’s too late, says Timothy Bickmore at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. So Bickmore and his team – which included doctors and hospital chaplains – built a tablet-based chatbot to offer spiritual and emotional guidance to people […]

Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, went further, calling the insurance system “one of the major causes of the crisis” because doctors are given incentives to use less expensive treatments that provide fast relief.

Nicole Boyson, associate professor of finance at Northeastern University in Boston, said it was not clear if women were inherently better hedge fund managers than men over the long term. But she added: “We can say pretty definitively that women are not worse performers.” Prof Boyson said that female managers faced “several disadvantages” in the […]

Researchers at Northeastern University have developed a next generation smart sensor for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that is capable of identifying infrared (IR) wavelengths — without having to have its own always-present power source. Instead, it is powered by the same infrared wavelengths it’s designed to look for.