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sensitive conditions we find that health IT adoption reduces mortality for the most complex patients but does not affect …Health information technology (IT) adoption, it is argued, will dramatically improve patient care. We study the impact … of hospital IT adoption on patient outcomes focusing on the roles of technological and organizational complements in …
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Health Act (HITECH). HITECH provides up to $27 billion to promote adoption and appropriate use of Electronic Medical Records … (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 …
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justify high prices for the population as a whole, innovation improves the welfare of sicker, late-stage cancer patients. A …
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We study the effect of information on technology adoption and productivity in agriculture. Our empirical strategy … higher adoption of high yielding varieties of seeds and other complementary inputs, as well as higher increase in …
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Prior studies suggest that consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) -characterized by high deductibles and health care accounts- reduce health costs, but there is concern that enrollees indiscriminately reduce use of low-value services (e.g., unnecessary emergency department use) and high-value...
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migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and supply factors. Our approach allows us to account for demand …
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This paper exploits a sharp reduction in patient cost sharing at age 70 in Japan, using a regression discontinuity design to examine its effect on utilization, health, and financial risk arising from out-of-pocket expenditures. Due to the national policy, cost sharing is 60-80 percent lower at...
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out-of-network emergency physician working at that hospital. Because patients do not choose their emergency physician …
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Information and communication technology now enables firms to collect detailed and potentially intrusive data about their customers both easily and cheaply. This means that privacy concerns are no longer limited to government surveillance and public figures' private lives. The empirical...
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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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