TY - JOUR
T1 - Monitoring technology and firm boundaries
T2 - Physician-hospital integration and technology utilization
AU - McCullough, Jeffrey S.
AU - Snir, Eli M.
PY - 2010/5
Y1 - 2010/5
N2 - We study the relationship between physician-hospital integration and its relation to monitoring IT utilization. We develop a theoretical model in which monitoring IT may complement or substitute for integration and test these relationships using a novel data source. Physician labor market heterogeneity identifies the empirical model. We find that monitoring IT utilization is increasing in integration, implying that expanded firm boundaries complement monitoring IT adoption. We argue that the relationship between monitoring IT and firm boundaries depends upon the contractibility of the monitored information.
AB - We study the relationship between physician-hospital integration and its relation to monitoring IT utilization. We develop a theoretical model in which monitoring IT may complement or substitute for integration and test these relationships using a novel data source. Physician labor market heterogeneity identifies the empirical model. We find that monitoring IT utilization is increasing in integration, implying that expanded firm boundaries complement monitoring IT adoption. We argue that the relationship between monitoring IT and firm boundaries depends upon the contractibility of the monitored information.
KW - Firm boundaries
KW - Health information technology
KW - Nonprofit institutions
KW - Vertical integration
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77952552290
U2 - 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.03.003
DO - 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.03.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 20398953
AN - SCOPUS:77952552290
SN - 0167-6296
VL - 29
SP - 457
EP - 467
JO - Journal of Health Economics
JF - Journal of Health Economics
IS - 3
ER -