Health Information Technology and Patient Outcomes: The Role of Organizational and Informational Complementarities

Jeffery S. McCullough, Stephen Parente, Robert Town

NBER Working Paper No. 18684
Issued in January 2013

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We gratefully acknowledge assistance from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Changes in Health Care Financing & Organization (Grant no. 64845) and the Agency for Health Research and Quality. We have received helpful comments from David Dranove, Leila Agha, seminar participants at the University of Southern California, Ohio State University, the American Health Economics Conference, and the NBER Summer Institute. We also thank the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) for use of their data and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for computing resources. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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