BACKGROUND The benefits of health information technology (IT) adoption have been reported in the literature, but whether health IT investment increases revenue generation remains an important research question. METHODS Texas hospital data obtained from the American Hospital Association (AHA) for 2007-2010 were used to investigate the association of health IT expenses and hospital revenue. The...

635 National Tax Journal Vol. LXI, No. 4, Part 1 December 2008 Abstract We examine how gross casino gambling revenues differ from other major tax bases in growth and variability. Long–run and short–run income elasticities are estimated using state–level gross casino revenue and state, regional and national income. We run separate time–series regressions for each of 11 states with signifi cant c...

Given the information known about a movie in the week of its release, can we predict the total gross revenue for that movie? Such information would be useful to marketers, theater operators, and others in the movie industry, but it is a hard problem, even for human beings. We found that, given a set of numeric, textbased, and sentiment features from IMDb, linear regression outperforms class-bas...

OBJECTIVE This study explores the fiduciary advantage of a Vascular Surgery program to an academic, tertiary care hospital. METHODS This is a retrospective review of hospital (HealthQuest) and physician (IDX) billing databases from April 2009 to September 2010. We identified all patients interacting with Vascular Surgery (VS) to provide an overview of global finances. Patients introduced sole...