Keeping Up with the Jones’: Influence from Peer Hospitals on EMR Diffusion
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Evidence suggests that in spite of the value potential of information technology (IT), institutions in the health care sector have been slow to adopt it. To the extent that significant problems in health care such as patient safety, medical errors, and escalating costs can be addressed through IT, accelerating its diffusion throughout the system is an important public policy issue. This research examines the drivers of adoption and diffusion of electronic medical records (EMR) in hospitals across the United States.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007