Many questions about technology growth and development in health care call for a broad-based characterization of … technology availability. In this paper, we explore the possibility of producing aggregated estimates of technology availability … by constructing an index of technology availability in hospitals. Our index is based on the number of services provided …

We analyze the effect of a decision support tool designed to help physicians detect and correct medical "missteps". The … data comes from a randomized trial of the technology on a population of commercial HMO patients. The key findings are that … the new information technology lowers average charges by 6% relative to the control group. This reduction in resource …

on physicians, we generally find a significant reduction in total spending as well. In analyzing the sources of hospital … with high managed care enrollment were technology leaders in the early 1980s; by the early 1990s those states were only …

In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending … behavior to explain these parallel trends in technology growth and cost growth. We show that health care productivity depends … technology productivity: (I) highly cost-effective "home run" innovations with little chance of overuse, such as anti …

We draw upon newly merged administrative data sets to study the relationship between payments from medical technology … firms to physicians and medical device procurement by hospitals. These payments (and the interactions that accompany them …) may facilitate the transfer of valuable information to and from physicians. However, they may also influence physicians …