One of the most vital business and formal documents of a health care organization is the medical record (Doughtery, 2008). Multiple chronic conditions require that clinicians be able to access computerized medical records of other physicians about their patients. Many departments within a...

We exploit a large-scale natural experiment - the rollout of a nationwide electronic prescribing system in Finland - to study how digitization of prescriptions affects pharmaceutical use and health outcomes. We use comprehensive administrative data from patients treated with benzodiazepines,...