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Information Technology and Patient Health: Analyzing Outcomes, Populations, and Mechanisms / Seth Freedman, Haizhen Lin, Jeffrey Prince.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freedman, Seth.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21389.
- NBER working paper series no. w21389
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Information Technology and Patient Health
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.
- Summary:
- We study the effect of hospital adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) on health outcomes, particularly patient safety indicators (PSIs). We find evidence of a positive impact of EMRs on PSIs via decision support rather than care coordination. Consistent with this mechanism, we find an EMR with decision support is more effective at reducing PSIs for less complicated cases, using several different metrics for complication. These findings indicate the negligible impacts for EMRs found by previous studies focusing on the Medicare population and/or mortality do not apply in all settings.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2015.
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