The Trillion Dollar Conundrum: Complementarities and Health Information Technology
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The Trillion Dollar Conundrum: Complementarities and Health Information Technology
We examine the heterogeneous relationship between the adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) and hospital operating costs at thousands of U.S. hospitals between 1996 and 2009. Combining data from multiple sources, we first identify a puzzle that has been seen in prior studies: Adoption of EMR is generally associated with a slight increase in costs. We draw on the literature on information...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1945-7731,1945-774X
DOI: 10.1257/pol.6.4.239