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Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care

Skinner, Jonathan - 2009

Inefficiency in the U.S. health care system has often been characterized as "flat of the curve" spending providing little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better explain the empirical patterns of outcome improvements in...

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Overconfidence and Technology Adoption in Health Care

Comin, Diego; Skinner, Jonathan; Staiger, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Variation in technology adoption is a key driver of differences in productivity. Previous studies sought to explain … variations in technology adoption by heterogeneity in profitability, costs of adoption, or other factors. Less is known about how … adoption is affected by bias in the perceived skill to implement the technology. We develop a Bayesian framework in which the …

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International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR Practices : The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K

Bartel, Ann - 2007

organizational changes have the same rates of adoption and impact internationally. We have assembled a unique dataset on plants in … result of the adoption of the new technology, plants in both countries have shifted production to customized products …. Finally, we find that, in both countries, the adoption of the new IT-enhanced technology coincides with increases in the skill …

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Health Status, Health Care and Inequality : Canada vs. the U.S

O'Neill, June E. - 2007

Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health resources more equitably than the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system? We show that the efficacy of health care systems cannot be usefully evaluated by comparisons of infant...

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The Quality of Health Care Providers

McClellan, Mark - 1999

Obtaining better information on the quality of health care providers is one of the most pressing issues in health policy today. In this paper we (1) develop a new method for measuring quality of care that overcomes the key limitations of available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to...

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The Impact of a Private Supplement to Public Health Care : The Mexico Diabetes Experiment

Bronsoler, Ari; Gruber, Jonathan; Seira, Enrique - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

There are ongoing debates around the world over the value of private supplements to public health insurance systems. We investigate this issue in the context of one of the world's deadliest diseases, diabetes, and one of the countries with the worst diabetes problems in the world, Mexico. We...

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The Impact of Public Health Policy : The Case of Community Health Centers

Goldman, Fred - 1982

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the Community Health Center (CHC) on health levels in the U.S. Using infant mortality as the underlying health indicator, a time series of large counties as the data set, and multivariate regression techniques, we investigate the extent to which...

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Medicaid Physician Fees and Access to Care among Children with Special Health Care Needs

Chatterji, Pinka - 2020

The objective of this study is to use data from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN) to test whether Medicaid physician fees are correlated with access to health services and adequacy of insurance coverage among CSHCN. We use a difference-in-differences...

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Capacity Constraints and the Provision of Public Services : The Case of Workers in Public Health Clinics

Harris, Matthew C. - 2019

Unlike in the production of most goods, changes in capacity for labor-intensive services only affect outcomes of interest insofar as service providers change the way they allocate their time in response to those capacity changes. In this paper, we examine how public sector service providers...

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Are Quality-Adjusted Medical Prices Declining for Chronic Disease? Evidence from Diabetes Care in Four Health Systems

Eggleston, Karen - 2019

Improvements in medical treatment have contributed to rising health spending. Yet there is relatively little evidence on whether the spending increase is "worth it" in the sense of producing better health outcomes of commensurate value--a critical question for understanding productivity in the...

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