1. Costs of Technological Frictions: Evidence from EHR (Non-)Interoperability 2. Sharing is Caring: The Role of Health Information Exchange on Patient Care
Add to Calendar! Two research presentations: 1. Interoperability of U.S. hospital electronic health record (EHR) systems remains limited, especially across vendors. We study how these frictions affect patients through a direct effect on information exchange and an allocative effect on patient flows. When hospitals switch to the same vendor, charges and readmissions fall 4% and […]