Healthcare Informatics February 16, 2018
A lot of (virtual and physical) ink has already been spilled on commentary on the proposed CVS-Aetna merger, much of it on the part of business analysts who are looking at the deal from a 40,000-feet-up view. In that regard, it was quite interesting to read an analysis of the deal published in The New England Journal of Medicine on February 15 and authored by Leemore Dafny, Ph.D. Dr. Dafny, as described in her Harvard Business School faculty and research profile, is a professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, and member of the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government. That profile also noted that “Professor Dafny’s research examines competitive interactions among payers and providers of healthcare...