Unintended Consequences of Property Tax Relief: New York’s STAR Program

Unintended Consequences: New Problems, New Solutions

Objective: To select the best of the 2015 published papers on unintended consequences of healthcare information technology (HIT). Method: Literature searches in several areas of scholarship, including IT, human factors, evaluation studies, medical errors, medical informatics, and implementation science. Also, because the specific terms “unintended consequences” were not often included in abstra...

Subsidizing Consolidation? Unintended Consequences of a Federal Drug Discount Program∗

Many salient profit incentives that health care providers face stem from government policies. We investigate hospital response to the 340B Drug Discount Program, a federal policy that substantially increases profitability of drug administration for about 45% of hospitals by entitling them to discounts of between 20% and 50% on drugs. Our primary empirical strategy is a fuzzy regression disconti...

Unintended Consequences.

Preempting Unintended Consequences

There is something called the “Law of Unintended Consequences.” Who enacted this law, who enforces it, and its exact scope are obscure. However, from time to time it manifests itself, most recently having made an appearance in some of the fallout from the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (“the Act”). One unintended or, perhaps more accurately, unforeseen consequence of the Act h...

New Unintended Adverse Consequences of Electronic Health Records.

Although the health information technology industry has made considerable progress in the design, development, implementation, and use of electronic health records (EHRs), the lofty expectations of the early pioneers have not been met. In 2006, the Provider Order Entry Team at Oregon Health & Science University described a set of unintended adverse consequences (UACs), or unpredictable, emergen...