sensitive conditions we find that health IT adoption reduces mortality for the most complex patients but does not affect …Health information technology (IT) adoption, it is argued, will dramatically improve patient care. We study the impact … of hospital IT adoption on patient outcomes focusing on the roles of technological and organizational complements in …

Health Act (HITECH). HITECH provides up to $27 billion to promote adoption and appropriate use of Electronic Medical Records … (EMR) by hospitals. We measure the extent to which HITECH incentive payments spurred EMR adoption by independent hospitals …. Adoption rates for all independent hospitals grew from 48 percent in 2008 to 77 percent by 2011. Absent HITECH incentives, we …

justify high prices for the population as a whole, innovation improves the welfare of sicker, late-stage cancer patients. A …

We study the effect of information on technology adoption and productivity in agriculture. Our empirical strategy … higher adoption of high yielding varieties of seeds and other complementary inputs, as well as higher increase in …

learning effect), even after controlling for the average adoption of peers. Results from a survey are consistent with learning … clinically unsupported drug reached thousands of patients, even some seriously ill, despite warnings by the regulator and medical … in the adoption of a miracle cure: towns adopt it when neighbors that adopt it are successful in containing deaths (a …

migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and supply factors. Our approach allows us to account for demand …