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Adoption and diffusion of health information technology: The case of primary care clinics
Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - 2012
We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …
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Quadratic Costs, Innovation and Welfare: The Role of Technology
Marjit, Sugata; Mishra, Suryaprakash - 2020
that if the technology is already advanced and competition intensifies then firms wouldn’t innovate. The dynamic … interaction we attempt to capture and explain is the one of technology with the possibility of innovation via the intensity of …
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Price Regulation and Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals
Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - 2015
This paper studies the effects of price regulation and parallel imports in the on-patent pharmaceutical market. In a theory model where the producer price is subject to bargaining between the brand-name producer and a distributor, we show that the effects of stricter price regulation crucially...
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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2014
. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility …
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Heterogeneous Effects of a Nonlinear Price Schedule for Outpatient Care
Farbmacher, Helmut; Ihle, Peter; Schubert, Ingrid; … - 2013
Theoretical considerations suggest that nonlinear health care price schedules have heterogeneous effects on health care demand. In this paper, we develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear...
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Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions: A Choice Experiment
Elias, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2016
Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...
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Using Fees to Reduce Bed-Blocking: A Game between Hospitals and Care Providers
Kverndokk, Snorre; Melberg, Hans Olav - 2016
The Coordination Reform was introduced in Norway in 2012 including a fee for bed-blocking in hospitals. To study this, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform does not necessarily lead to less bed-blocking as this...
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Battling antibiotic resistance: can machine learning improve prescribing?
Ribers, Michael Allan; Ullrich, Hannes - 2019
Antibiotic resistance constitutes a major health threat. Predicting bacterial causes of infections is key to reducing antibiotic misuse, a leading driver of antibiotic resistance. We train a machine learning algorithm on administrative and microbiological laboratory data from Denmark to predict...
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Dynamic hospital competition under rationing by waiting times
Sá, Luís; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2019
We develop a dynamic model of hospital competition where (i) waiting times increase if demand exceeds supply; (ii) patients choose a hospital based in part on waiting times; and (iii) hospitals incur waiting time penalties. We show that, whereas policies based on penalties will lead to lower...
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Adolescents on the Road: A Case Study of Determinants of Risky Behaviors
Elba, Filippo; Cosci, Fiammetta; Pettini, Anna; … - 2018
The 2016 report of the European Transport Safety Council claims that EU safety progress has come to a standstill. This study aims at deepening the knowledge of factors that influence adolescents’ risky behavior on the road. Bayesian Networks offer a promising new way to looking at the issue....
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