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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2020
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13926
Verlag: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Zusammenfassung: 
Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of prescribing. We use the rollout of an electronic prescribing system in Finland and prescription-level administrative data. We find no effect on the probability of co-prescribing harmful drug combinations in urban regions. In rural regions, this probability reduces substantially, by 35 percent. The effect is driven by prescriptions from unspecialized physicians and from multiple physicians. Improving the local information environment thus enhances coordination and narrows differences in the quality of prescribing.
Schlagwörter: 
health information technology
digitalization
e-prescribing
integration
quality of prescribing
public policy
JEL: 
H51
H75
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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