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 … sensitive conditions we find that health IT adoption reduces mortality for the most complex patients but does not affect …

technological advancement in digital health by studying an intervention of "remote patient monitoring" that enabled patients to … Health among a diverse population of patients and targeted hypertension management to reduce the risk of cardiovascular … reductions in cardiovascular risk. The new technology was systematically adopted at lower rates by Black/Hispanic patients and by …

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 …

air pollution shock mitigation in a high-stakes healthcare setting: hospital surgery scheduling. Using newly available … inpatient surgery records from a major city in China, we track post-surgery survival for over 1 million patients, and document a … significant increase of hospital mortality among those who underwent surgeries on days with high particulate matter pollution …

In this article, we provide a comprehensive, empirical assessment of the hypothesis that the Hospital Readmissions … Reduction Program (HRRP) affected hospital readmissions. In doing so, we provide evidence as to the validity of prior empirical … little effect on hospital readmissions. This finding contrasts with the results of most prior studies, which report that the …

department (ED) utilization using detailed data on 150,000 patients who moved regions within Israel. We document that about half … hospital admission (that is, via the ED), implying that the entire change in ED use by movers is driven by ED visits that do … not lead to hospital admission. Similar results are obtained in a complementary event study, which uses hospital entry as …

mandated minimum levels of patients per nurse in the hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already had … acceptable staffing levels, while others had nurse staffing ratios that did not meet mandated standards. Thus changes in hospital …

Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand … Medicare pneumonia patients in this market. We find that the mean valuation of amenities is positive and substantial. From the … patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …