Lu, Susan Feng; Rui, Huaxia; Seidmann, Abraham - 2017
operations, mostly through the introduction of advanced information systems. Yet the impact of these investments on staffing is … still not well understood. In this paper, we study the effect of IT-enabled automation on staffing decisions in healthcare … facilities. Using unique nursing home IT data from 2006 to 2012, we find that the licensed nurse staffing level decreases by 5 …