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Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the … effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of prescribing. We use the rollout of an electronic … environment thus enhances coordination and narrows differences in the quality of prescribing. …
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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,...
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889276
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,...
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Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the … effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of prescribing. We use the rollout of an electronic … environment thus enhances coordination and narrows differences in the quality of prescribing …
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One of the main goals at the European level is that healthcare systems must be accessible but at the same time cost-effective and sustainable in the long term. The implementation of eHealth is one way to contribute to this goal. The presented paper is focused on the evaluation of the usage of...
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Although President Obama and the Democratic Congress were able to pass landmark health legislation, their efforts to reform health care ran into predictable political roadblocks. In a severe recession, taxing business and labor is obviously not helpful to economic recovery. Moreover, an array of...
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This Article offers an extended rebuttal to the suggestion to move residents away from dying communities to places with greater economic promise. Rural America, arguably, is one of those dying places. A host of strategies aim to shore up those communities and make them more economically viable....
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