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medical providers to store and exchange patient information using computers rather than paper records. Hospitals may not adopt … adoption if hospitals cannot benefit from exchanging patient information with one another. In the US, medical privacy laws that … restrict the ability of hospitals to disclose patient information vary across time and across states. We exploit this variation …
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hospitals in larger hospital systems are more likely to exchange electronic patient information only within their system and … less likely to exchange patient information externally. We show that hospitals are also more likely to exchange information … externally if others hospitals also do so. This implies that the disinclination of large hospital systems to exchange data …
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