Zia Agha

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Zia Agha is a leading health services researcher whose work bridges clinical medicine, health economics, and digital health innovation. His research focuses on telemedicine, health informatics, and cost-effectiveness analysis, with a particular emphasis on improving healthcare delivery for underserved and remote populations. Agha’s seminal contribution includes a pioneering cost-minimization analysis of telepathology, which demonstrated the economic feasibility of dynamic robotic telepathology services between Veterans Affairs medical centers—a study that has garnered 49 citations and laid foundational evidence for remote pathology services. His work has been instrumental in showing how telehealth technologies can reduce costs while maintaining quality, directly influencing policy and practice in the Veterans Health Administration. Beyond telepathology, Agha has contributed to understanding the impact of health information technology on clinical outcomes and patient safety. With a career marked by rigorous economic evaluations and implementation science, his research continues to shape the adoption of digital tools in healthcare, making him a key figure in the evidence-based advancement of telemedicine.