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Variation in technology adoption is a key driver of differences in productivity. Previous studies sought to explain variations in technology adoption by heterogeneity in profitability, costs of adoption, or other factors. Less is known about how adoption is affected by bias in the perceived...
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Inefficiency in the U.S. health care system has often been characterized as "flat of the curve" spending providing …
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For those who follow health and technology news, it is difficult to go more than a few days without reading about a … compelling new application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to health care. AI has myriad applications in medicine and its … health care delivery, including administrative work, diagnosis, and treatment. In diagnosis and treatment, a large and …
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We examine the effects of the State Innovation Models (SIM) on population-level health status. The SIM initiative … Surveillance System for the years 2010 -- 2016 to compare health of the populations in 6 SIM states to 15 states that were not … involved in any aspects of SIM. We examine changes in health using an event study design. We develop a Latent Class Profile …
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New medical technologies hold tremendous promise for improving population health, but they also raise concerns about … exacerbating already large differences in health by socioeconomic status (SES). If effective treatments are more rapidly adopted by … the better educated, SES health disparities may initially expand even though the health of those in all groups eventually …
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There is a large body of work that documents a strong, positive correlation between education and measures of health …, but little is known about the mechanisms by which education might affect health. One possibility is that more educated …
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The adoption of healthcare technology is central to improving productivity in this sector. To provide new evidence on how technology affects healthcare markets, we focus on one area where adoption has been particularly rapid: surgery for prostate cancer. Over just six years, robotic surgery grew...
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Increased health care spending has been argued to be largely due to technological change. Cost-effectiveness analysis …
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This paper examines the implications of regulatory change for the input mix and technology choices of regulated industries. We present a simple neoclassical framework that emphasizes the change in relative factor prices associated with the regulatory change from full cost to partial cost...
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Given the rapid growth in health care spending that is often attributed to technological change, many private and … public institutions are grappling with how to best assess and adopt new health care technologies. The leading technology …
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