Technical Executive Summary in Support of “Can Electronic Medical Record Systems Transform Healthcare?” and “Promoting Health Information Technology”

James H. Bigelow, Katya Fonkych, Federico Girosi

Published Sep 8, 2005

This document summarizes the evidence and analysis that support two papers appearing in Health Affairs, Vol. 24, No. 5, Sept/Oct 2005, by Hillestad et al. and by Taylor et al. Three much more complete technical reports can be found at: Fonkych, K., and R. Taylor, The State and Pattern of Health Information Technology Adoption, RAND Corporation, MG-409-HLTH, 2005. Girosi, F., R. Meili, and R. Scoville, Extrapolating Evidence of Health Information Technology Savings and Costs, RAND Corporation, MG-410-HLTH, 2005. Bigelow, J. H., K. Fonkych, C. Fung, and J. Wang, Analysis of Healthcare Interventions that Change Patient Trajectories, RAND Corporation, MG-408-HLTH, 2005.

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