Miller, Amalia R.; Tucker, Catherine - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 7, pp. 1077-1093
This paper quantifies the effect of state privacy regulation on the diffusion of electronic medical records (EMRs …. Alternatively, privacy protection may inhibit adoption if hospitals cannot benefit from easily exchanging patient information. We … find that state privacy regulation restricting hospital release of health information reduces aggregate EMR adoption by …