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dc.contributor.authorMiller, Amalia R.
dc.contributor.authorTucker, Catherine Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-11T14:49:49Z
dc.date.available2011-08-11T14:49:49Z
dc.date.issued2011-04
dc.date.submitted2011-04
dc.identifier.issn0022-3808
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65106
dc.description.abstractElectronic medical records (EMRs) facilitate fast and accurate access to patient records, which could improve diagnosis and patient monitoring. Using a 12-year county-level panel, we find that a 10 percent increase in births that occur in hospitals with EMRs reduces neonatal mortality by 16 deaths per 100,000 live births. This is driven by a reduction of deaths from conditions requiring careful monitoring. We also find a strong decrease in mortality when we instrument for EMR adoption using variation in state medical privacy laws. Rough cost-effectiveness calculations suggest that EMRs are associated with a cost of $531,000 per baby’s life saved.en_US
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Pressen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1086/660083en_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/en_US
dc.sourceSSRNen_US
dc.titleCan Health Care Information Technology Save Babies?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationMiller, Amalia R., and Catherine E. Tucker. “Can Health Care Information Technology Save Babies?” The Journal of Political Economy 119.2 (2011) : 289-324.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentSloan School of Managementen_US
dc.contributor.approverTucker, Catherine Elizabeth
dc.contributor.mitauthorTucker, Catherine Elizabeth
dc.relation.journalJournal of Political Economyen_US
dc.eprint.versionAuthor's final manuscripten_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.orderedauthorsMiller, Amalia R.; Tucker, Catherine E.en
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1847-4832
mit.licenseOPEN_ACCESS_POLICYen_US
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