(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 … for all hospitals and not just marginal adopters, we estimate that the cost of generating an additional adoption was $48 …

of hospital IT adoption on patient outcomes focusing on the roles of technological and organizational complements in … detailed hospital discharge data on all Medicare fee-for-service admissions from 2002-2007 to detailed hospital-level IT …

available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart … and forecast differences in patient outcomes across hospitals remarkably well - far better than existing methods. Our … differences across hospitals in short-term mortality rates following a heart attack, adjusted for patient demographics, are …

applied to health care: hospital mergers, monopsony, and foreclosure. In each of these sections we review the relevant …

patients receive care at lower-performing hospitals than white patients, even when they live in the same hospital market or ZIP … code within a hospital market. (2) Over the past two decades, the gap in performance between hospitals treating Black and … tended to treat Black patients, rather than faster reallocation of Black patients to better hospitals. (4) Hospital …

in our case, hospitals. Theoretical implications are tested using U.S. Medicare data on survival and factor inputs for 2 … heart attack treatments appear positive but quite modest. Hospitals which during the period 1994/95 to 2003/04 raised their … rate of technology diffusion (the "tigers") experienced outcome gains four times the gains in hospitals with diminished …

increase costs. We illustrate our argument with examples taken from the insurance and the hospital industries, and discuss …