We analyze the effect of a decision support tool designed to help physicians detect and correct medical quot …;misstepsquot;. The data comes from a randomized trial of the technology on a population of commercial HMO patients. The key findings are … that the new information technology lowers average charges by 6% relative to the control group. This reduction in resource …

We analyze the effect of a decision support tool designed to help physicians detect and correct medical "missteps". The … data comes from a randomized trial of the technology on a population of commercial HMO patients. The key findings are that … the new information technology lowers average charges by 6% relative to the control group. This reduction in resource …