dc.contributor.author | Miller, Amalia R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Tucker, Catherine Elizabeth | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-08-11T14:49:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-08-11T14:49:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-04 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2011-04 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-3808 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65106 | |
dc.description.abstract | Electronic 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.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | University of Chicago Press | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/660083 | en_US |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | en_US |
dc.source | SSRN | en_US |
dc.title | Can Health Care Information Technology Save Babies? | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Miller, 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.department | Sloan School of Management | en_US |
dc.contributor.approver | Tucker, Catherine Elizabeth | |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Tucker, Catherine Elizabeth | |
dc.relation.journal | Journal of Political Economy | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Author's final manuscript | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dspace.orderedauthors | Miller, Amalia R.; Tucker, Catherine E. | en |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1847-4832 | |
mit.license | OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY | en_US |
mit.metadata.status | Complete | |