{"title":"To follow the market or the parent system: Evidence from health IT adoption by hospital chains","authors":"Jianjing Lin","doi":"10.1111/ecin.13147","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>I study how hospital chains consider the tradeoff between internal and external network benefits in technology adoption. I estimate a discrete-choice model that characterizes adoption decisions using a national sample of U.S. hospitals from 2005 to 2014. After instrumenting a vendor's market and system shares, I find affiliated hospitals tend to choose the internally preferred vendor, but experienced adopters also welcome external popular options. Factors affecting the tradeoff include chain size and the need for internal coordination. The stronger incentives for internal integration in health IT adoption among chains might create frictions to sharing information externally.</p>","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecin.13147","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
I study how hospital chains consider the tradeoff between internal and external network benefits in technology adoption. I estimate a discrete-choice model that characterizes adoption decisions using a national sample of U.S. hospitals from 2005 to 2014. After instrumenting a vendor's market and system shares, I find affiliated hospitals tend to choose the internally preferred vendor, but experienced adopters also welcome external popular options. Factors affecting the tradeoff include chain size and the need for internal coordination. The stronger incentives for internal integration in health IT adoption among chains might create frictions to sharing information externally.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.