Overview
Mitchell Tang, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. His research examines the growing use of digital technologies in care delivery, with a particular interest in how healthcare organizations can adapt their standard ways of working to utilize them more effectively.
Dr. Tang received his PhD in Health Policy (Management) from Harvard University and previously worked as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
Research
Selected Publications
Tang, M., Stern, A. D., Marcondes, F. O., & Mehrotra, A. (2025). Practice-level Effects of Remote Physiologic Monitoring Adoption. Health Affairs, In Press.
Tang, M., Mishuris, R. G., Payvandi, L., & Stern, A. D. (2024). Differences in Care Team Response to Patient Portal Messages by Patient Race and Ethnicity. JAMA Network Open, 7(3), e242618. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.2618
Tang, M., Nakamoto, C. H., Stern, A. D., Zubizarreta, J. R., Marcondes, F. O., Uscher-Pines, L., Schwamm, L. H., & Mehrotra, A. (2023). Effects of Remote Patient Monitoring Use on Care Outcomes Among Medicare Patients With Hypertension. Annals of Internal Medicine, 176(11), 1465–1475. https://doi.org/10.7326/M23-1182
Tang, M., Chernew, M. E., & Mehrotra, A. (2022). How Emerging Telehealth Models Challenge Policymaking. The Milbank Quarterly, 100(3), 650–672. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12584
Tang, M., Mehrotra, A., & Stern, A. D. (2022). Rapid Growth Of Remote Patient Monitoring Is Driven By A Small Number Of Primary Care Providers. Health Affairs, 41(9), 1248–1254. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.02026
Tang, M., Nakamoto, C. H., Stern, A. D., & Mehrotra, A. (2022). Trends in Remote Patient Monitoring Use in Traditional Medicare. JAMA Internal Medicine, 182(9), 1005–1006. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.3043
Holmgren, A. J., Downing, N. L., Tang, M., Sharp, C., Longhurst, C., & Huckman, R. S. (2022). Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinician ambulatory electronic health record use. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 29(3), 453–460. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab268