Dranove, David; Forman, Chris; Goldfarb, Avi; … - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 6 (2014) 4, pp. 239-70
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...
