The impact of health information technology on hospital productivity

被引：97

作者：

Lee, Jinhyung ^{[1
]}

McCullough, Jeffrey S. ^{[2
]}

Town, Robert J. ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Seoul, South Korea

[2] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA

[3] Univ Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

来源：

RAND JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS | 2013年 / 44卷 / 03期

关键词：

PANEL-DATA; CARE; ADOPTION; BENEFITS;

D O I：

10.1111/1756-2171.12030

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Health information technology (IT) has been championed as a tool that can transform health care delivery. We estimate the parameters of a value-added hospital production function correcting for endogenous input choices to assess the private returns hospitals earn from health IT. Despite high marginal products, the total benefits from expanded IT adoption are modest. Over the span of our data, health IT inputs increased by more than 210% and contributed about 6% to the increase in value-added. Not-for-profits invested more heavily and differently in IT. Finally, we find no compelling evidence of labor complementarities or network externalities from competitors' IT investment.

引用

页码：545 / 568

页数：24

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