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 …

(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 …

The literature on mergers between private hospitals suggests that such mergers often produce little benefit. Despite … this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting … is met. We exploit the fact that between 1997 and 2006 in England around half the short term general hospitals were …

choice increased demand elasticity faced by hospitals with regard to clinical quality and waiting time for an important … welfare. The elasticity of demand faced by hospitals increased post-reform, giving hospitals potentially large incentives to … improve their quality of care and find suggestive evidence that hospitals responded strongly to the enhanced incentives due to …

parameters of a value-added hospital production function correcting for endogenous input choices in order to assess the private … returns hospitals earn from health IT. Despite high marginal products, the potential benefits from expanded IT adoption are … change in hospital multi-factor productivity. Not-for-profits invested more heavily and differently in IT than for …

hospitals of these three invasive cardiac services and the characteristics of hospitals, their markets, and the interactions … among them, from 1996-2014. The results show that the probability of hospitals adopting a new cardiac service depends on … competition in two distinct ways: 1) hospitals are substantially more likely to adopt an invasive cardiac service if competitor …

of conditions and performance measures that higher quality hospitals tend to have higher market shares at a point in time … patients who have greater scope for hospital choice, suggesting a role for patient demand in allocation in the hospital sector …