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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 …
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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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Since the inception of Medicare Part D in 2006, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and regulatory changes have led to increased concentration and reduced plan variety in the standalone prescription drug plan (PDP) portion of the market. We examine how this industry consolidation affects Medicare...
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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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The contraction in health care consumption at the start of the pandemic provides insight into central economic questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we compare people who had outpatient appointments scheduled...
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.S. survey of generative AI adoption at work and at home. In August 2024, 39 percent of the U.S. population age 18-64 used … depends on the speed and intensity of adoption. This paper reports results from the first nationally representative U … used it every workday. Historical data on usage and mass-market product launches suggest that U.S. adoption of generative …
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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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