NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

Health, IT, and Productivity Workshop

 

Ernst Berndt and David Cutler,Co- Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 23, 2010

 

PROGRAM

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Amalia Miller, University of Virginia

 

Healthcare IT, System Size and Network Externalities

 

(joint with Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School)

 

 

 

Discussant:  James Rebitzer, Boston University and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

David Cutler, Harvard University and NBER

 

Julia Adler-Milstein, Harvard University

 

Lessons for and from IT in Health Care

 

 

 

Discussant:  Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan School and NBER

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

David Blumenthal, Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology

 

The HIT Agenda

 

 

12:30 pm

Adjourn