Replication data for: The Trillion Dollar Conundrum: Complementarities and Health Information Technology
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) David Dranove; Chris Forman; Avi Goldfarb; Shane Greenstein
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Project Citation:
Dranove, David, Forman, Chris, Goldfarb, Avi, and Greenstein, Shane. Replication data for: The Trillion Dollar Conundrum: Complementarities and Health Information Technology. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114880V1
Project Description
Summary:
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We examine the heterogeneous relationship between the adoption of EMR and hospital operating costs at thousands of US hospitals between 1996 and 2009. We first document a previously-identified puzzle: Adoption of EMR is associated with a slight cost increase. Drawing on the literature on IT and productivity, we analyze why this average effect arises. We find that: (i) EMR adoption is initially associated with a rise in costs; (ii) EMR adoption at hospitals in IT-intensive locations leads to a decrease in costs after three years; and (iii) Hospitals in other locations experience an increase in costs even after six years.
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JEL Classification:
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D24 Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets
M15 IT Management
D24 Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets
M15 IT Management
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