{"150201":{"#nid":"150201","#data":{"type":"event","title":"The Trillion Dollar Conundrum: Complementarities and Health Information Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPresentation by Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe examine the heterogeneous relationship between the adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) and hospital operating costs at thousands of US hospitals between 1996 and 2009. Combining data from multiple sources, we first identify a puzzle that has been seen in prior studies: Adoption of EMR is generally associated with a slight increase in costs. We draw on the literature on information technology as a business process innovation to analyze why this average effect arises, and explain why it masks important differences over time, across locations, and across hospitals. We find evidence consistent with this approach, namely, that: (1) EMR adoption is initially associated with a rise in costs; (2) EMR adoption at hospitals in favorable conditions \u2013 such as urban locations \u2013 leads to a decrease in costs after three years; and (3) Hospitals in unfavorable conditions experience a sharp increase in costs even after six years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPresentation by Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University: \u0022The Trillion Dollar Conundrum: Complementarities and Health Information Technologies\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University, presents at School of Economics 2012 Fall Seminar Series"}],"uid":"27385","created_gmt":"2012-08-29 13:40:34","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:59:41","author":"Carol Silvers","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-09-14T15:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-09-14T16:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-09-14T16:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-09-14 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-09-14 20:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-09-14 20:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.econ.gatech.edu\/files\/seminars\/Greenstein_0.pdf","title":"View paper"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"41981","name":"health information"},{"id":"41971","name":"trillion dollar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJuan Moreno-Cruz\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:juan.moreno-craz@econ,gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejuan.moreno-craz@econ,gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}