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Optimal aging with uncertain death
Strulik, Holger - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2013
. Specifically, it is assumed that at any age the probability to survive depends on the number of health deficits accumulated. At the … her age but by the number of accumulated health deficits. The stochastic model basically confirms the earlier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954317
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Do Financial Incentives Increase the Use of Electronic Health Records? Findings from an Experiment.
Moreno, Lorenzo; Felt-Lisk, Suzanne; Dale, Stacy - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013
This working paper reviews impacts of the Electronic Health Records Demonstration implemented by the Centers for … Medicare & Medicaid Services, finding that moderate incentive payments did not lead to universal electronic health record (EHR …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010924485
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Effect of Healthy Start on Infant Mortality and Birth Outcomes.
Moreno, Lorenzo; Devaney, Barbara; Chu, Dexter; Seeley, … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2000
Notes that the program improved several birth outcomes across the sites studied, reduced infant mortality in two sites, and was particularly successful at linking women and their families to prenatal care.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010924587
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Aftershocks of Chile's Earthquake on an Ongoing, Large-Scale Experimental Evaluation.
Moreno, Lorenzo - Mathematica Policy Research - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010924659
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Reducing Infant Mortality: Lessons Learned from Healthy Start.
Devaney, Barbara; Howell, Embry; McCormick, Marie; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2000
Presents results from the six-year evaluation, noting that the programs filled important gaps in services, that strong program administration and leadership are associated with better implementation and outcomes, and that coordination with existing clinical services is important.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010924732
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Necessary But Not Sufficient: The HITECH Act and Health Information Technology's Potential to Build Medical Homes.
Moreno, Lorenzo; Peikes, Deborah; Krilla, Amy - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010
This paper examines how the HITECH Act could be harnessed to help practices implement technology and support key principles of the PCMH.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010925286
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Degrees of Development - How Geographic Latitude Sets the Pace of Industrialization and Demographic Change
Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2008
Successful economic development is usually characterized by two salient phenomena: industrialization and demographic transition. Chronologically both events happen so closely to each other that historians and economists alike suspect that they are interrelated. This paper develops a theory for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005243310
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Optimal Aging with Uncertain Death
Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2011
. Specifically, it is assumed that at any age the probability to survive depends on the number of health deficits accumulated. It is … death and a precautionary motive for health investment into account thus further improves a bit the anyway good fit of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393070
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Strategies to Ensure HITECH Supports the Patient-Centered Medical Home.
Moreno, Lorenzo; Peikes, Deborah; Krilla, Amy - Mathematica Policy Research - 2011
To help transform primary care delivery and support the patient-centered medical home, the Health Information … Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act supports adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records. This … brief offers policy options that could ensure health technology efforts are implemented in a way that help transform primary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010609114
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The Influence of TennCare on Perinatal Outcomes.
Moreno, Lorenzo - Mathematica Policy Research - 1999
Finds that (1) the transition to managed care in Tennessee neither improved nor adversely affected most perinatal outcomes, and (2) the expansion of Medicaid coverage to uninsured women did not improve perinatal outcomes relative to those for women not enrolled in TennCare. Variation in outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010609131