Susan J Méndez

Title page of Journal of Health Economics, Does telemedicine technology affect prescribing quality in primary care? The case of antibiotics.

Very happy to see our new paper published.
Using linked physician-patient data in 🇦🇺, we show that doctors who adopted telemedicine more intensively prescribed fewer antibiotics, while maintaining prescribing quality.
With D. Avdic, J. Kunz and M. Wiśniewska
#DigitalHealth

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Are you working in #LGBTQ related research topics?! Come visit us in Melbourne next year!!

While there is an applied/econ focus, the summit will be more multidisciplinary than most ;)

Also there are a handful of scholarships available!
@jankabatek.com @mckay.mobi @aeacsqiep.bsky.social

Organised session lineup is 🤩
@bonnyeconomist.bsky.social
#MilenaLewandowska
@portiacornell.bsky.social

AHES @aushealthecon.bsky.social is on, and it’s great to see many here!

My organised session — Integrating digital health: What digital health means for patients, providers, and payers — is tomorrow morning.

If you’re doing work in this area please come and say hi.

Our paper on temporal trends in initiation on gender affirming hormone therapy initiation in Australia is now out in Internal Medicine Journal
@drbrendannolan1.bsky.social

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📢We're hiring!📢
Two tenure-track positions in empirical micro, no teaching obligations👇👇

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Emphasis: childhood development & indigenous outcomes

Come join us in beautiful Melbourne!

‼️𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟑𝟎 𝐒𝐞𝐩‼️

A big shout out to @lucyxiaoluwang.bsky.social who, as inaugural program chair for the Innovation and Digitization program area, created amazing sessions @ASHEcon2025.
It has been a blast talking #DigitalHealth with so many cool researchers!

My first rodeo at #ASHEcon2025 and in Nashville!
Presenting our work on Telemedicine adoption and antibiotic prescriptions in primary care in 🇦🇺 🦘

ALGORITHMIC DECISION-MAKING IN CLINICAL CARE
Evidence, equity and economics across health systems

Join us for a panel discussion on Friday, 30th May.

Hosted by the iHEA’s SIG on the Economics of Digital Health Technology.

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#EconSky #IOSky - 2025 Asia-Pacific IO Conference: Dec 12-14 in Brisbane, Australia apios.org.au. Call for papers in mid-July. Keynotes by #PaulHeidhues & #GingerZheJin and a great group of invited speakers. It's 10 years of APIOC, and we couldn't pick a better place. Please share!

We are getting ready!
This is one of the best workshops in this area. Deadline is fast approaching.

2025 Labour Econometrics Workshop The Melbourne Institute is proud to present the 27th Labour Econometrics Workshop.

Only 4️⃣ days left to submit your work to the one-and-only 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩!

🗓️ 14-15 August in beautiful Naarm (Melbourne)

📊 Keynotes: Jens Ludwig (UChicago) & John B. Jones (FedRichmond)

💣 Deadline: Thursday 15 Apr, 5pm AEDT (UTC +10)

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2025 Labour Econometrics Workshop The Melbourne Institute is proud to present the 27th Labour Econometrics Workshop.

Don't forget to submit your papers to the Labour Econometrics Workshop! The deadline is in two weeks ✌️

Hope to see you in Melbourne! 🌈🏙️

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In a free pricing setting. Male (nonGP) specialists set higher fees than their female colleagues. Our new study explores gender differences in pricing and the role of price transparency.

Could we be entering a new era in women’s health funding? By listening to women’s voices and investing in targeted research, Australia is taking important steps towards creating a more equitable healthcare system says University of Melbourne expert

Amid recent, and most welcomed, announcements on funding for women’s health, @martinarepetto.bsky.social’s reflections on how far we’ve come. And how much we still need to catch up.
@aushealthecon.bsky.social

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Banana chocolate crepe

Grant submitted, celebrating inputs.

May the Fates (aka ARC CoE) weave a thread of fortune for me.