Can Health Care Information Technology Save Babies?
Electronic medical records (EMRs) facilitate fast and accurate access to patient records, which could improve diagnosis and patient monitoring. Using a 12-year county-level panel, we find that a 10 percent increase in births that occur in hospitals with EMRs reduces neonatal mortality by 16 deaths p...
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University of Chicago Press
2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65106 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1847-4832 |