Niam Yaraghi

Niam Yaraghi

Patients share more about themselves than ever and see too little of the benefit. My work is about closing that gap: I study how health data moves between patients, providers, payers, and regulators, and what happens to cost, quality, and privacy when it does.

I am a tenured Associate Professor of Business Technology at the Miami Business School, with secondary appointments in Health Management & Policy and, at the Miller School of Medicine, in Informatics & Health Data Science. I have been affiliated with the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation since 2014 and am now a Nonresident Senior Fellow there.

My research on health information exchange, prescription monitoring, telehealth, and price transparency has appeared in Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Milbank Quarterly, and has been cited in federal rulemakings. In 2025 I founded Intellident Systems, a University of Miami spinout building AI software for dental practices.

Research

Empirical work on health information technology: who adopts it, who benefits, and who pays. Published in Management Science, ISR, MISQ, POM, AMR, JMIS, JAIS, and Milbank Quarterly. Funded by NIH, the California Health Care Foundation, and the NIHCM Foundation.

26 journal articles

1,802 citations on Google Scholar, October 2026

Policy

Twelve years at Brookings, ten policy reports for Brookings, Milbank, and others, and a long run of commentary in Health Affairs and U.S. News. Cited in 12 Federal Register rules and notices on interoperability, information blocking, algorithm transparency, and data access.

56 government documents in 9 countries and 5 US states, 12 of them Federal Register rules and notices

300 media mentions since 2014

Practice

Founder of Intellident Systems, a University of Miami spinout building AI for dental practices. Adviser to health information exchanges in New York, Connecticut, and Abu Dhabi, and to Surescripts.