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Overconfidence and Technology Adoption in Health Care

Comin, Diego; Skinner, Jonathan; Staiger, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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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Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care

Chandra, Amitabh - 2011

In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also grown more rapidly than in any other country. We develop a model of patient demand and supplier behavior to explain these parallel trends in technology growth...

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Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization : The Role of Physicians

Badinski, Ivan; Finkelstein, Amy; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that … separates variation in average utilization of Medicare beneficiaries due to physicians, non-physician supply side factors, and … patient demand. The model is identified by migration of patients and physicians across areas, as well as by variation in …

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Managed Care and Technology Adoption in Health Care : Evidence from Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Baker, Laurence C. - 2000

Increasing managed care activity could influence the adoption and diffusion of new medical technologies. This paper empirically examines the relationship between HMO market share and the diffusion of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment. Across markets, increases in HMO market share are...

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Managed Care and Medical Technology Growth

Baker, Laurence Claude - 1999

Many questions about technology growth and development in health care call for a broad-based characterization of technology availability. In this paper, we explore the possibility of producing aggregated estimates of technology availability by constructing an index of technology availability in...

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Endogenous Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care Technology Adoption

Jena, Anupam - 2009

Increased health care spending has been argued to be largely due to technological change. Cost-effectiveness analysis is the main tool used by private and public third-party payers to prioritize adoption of the new technologies responsible for this growth. However, such analysis by payers...

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Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care

Skinner, Jonathan - 2009

-diffusion hospitals, raising the question of why some hospitals (and the physicians who work there) adopt so slowly …

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The Lifetime Costs and Benefits of Medical Technology

Cutler, David M. - 2007

Measuring the lifetime costs and benefits of medical technologies is essential in evaluating technological change and determining the productivity of medical care. Using data on Medicare beneficiaries with a heart attack in the late 1980s and 17 years of follow up data, I evaluate the long-term...

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The Regulation of Medical AI : Policy Approaches, Data, and Innovation Incentives

Stern, Ariel Dora - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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 adjacent industries, with AI-driven tools already in use...

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Physician Practice Style and Patient Health Outcomes : The Case of Heart Attacks

Currie, Janet - 2015

most aggressive and responsive physicians are young, male, and trained in top 20 schools …

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