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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Miller, Amalia R., Tucker, Catherine Elizabeth
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65106
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1847-4832