of hospital IT adoption on patient outcomes focusing on the roles of technological and organizational complements in … affecting IT's value and explore underlying mechanisms through which IT facilitates the coordination of labor inputs. We link … detailed hospital discharge data on all Medicare fee-for-service admissions from 2002-2007 to detailed hospital-level IT …

both ambulatory and hospital settings. Care is now increasingly divided between physicians specializing in hospital care … care across physicians in the hospitalist model against physicians' costs switching between ambulatory and hospital …

coordination costs fell during this period. We then propose a "hierarchical production function" in which output is the product of … coordination costs fell broadly and steadily during this period, so that hiring one's first associate leveraged a partner's skill …

distribution network upgrades. In contrast, centrally managed charging solves the coordination problem, reducing transformer …

transport patients and have strong preferences for certain hospitals. Being admitted to a hospital with two standard deviations … hospital in a concentrated market increases spending but has no detectable effect on mortality …