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The Impact of Increased Access to Telemedicine

Zeltzer, Dan; Einav, Liran; Rashba, Joseph; Balicer, Ran D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We estimate the impact of increased access to telemedicine that followed widespread adoption during the March-April 2020 lockdown period in Israel (due to COVID-19). We focus on the post-lockdown period, which in Israel was characterized by a temporary return to normalcy. Prior to the lockdown,...

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Investment Subsidies and the Adoption of Electronic Medical Records in Hospitals

Dranove, David - 2014

In February 2009 the U.S. Congress unexpectedly passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical 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...

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Health Information Technology and Patient Outcomes : The Role of Organizational and Informational Complementarities

McCullough, Jeffrey S. - 2013

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 affecting IT's value and explore underlying mechanisms...

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Mortality Effects of Healthcare Supply Shocks : Evidence Using Linked Deaths and Electronic Health Records

Ziedan, Engy; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma; Wing, Coady - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The contraction in health care consumption at the start of the pandemic provides insight into central economic questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we compare people who had outpatient appointments scheduled...

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Equity and Efficiency in Technology Adoption : Evidence from Digital Health

Fadlon, Itzik; Agnihotri, Parag; Longhurst, Christopher; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Digital technologies are bringing vast improvements to modern society but also carry the risk of perpetuating disparities if adopted at lower rates by underserved communities. We investigate the efficiency and equity aspects of technological advancement in digital health by studying an...

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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …

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Services in the Domestic Economy and in World Transactions

Kravis, Irving B. - 1983

A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S …. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of … economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been …

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