Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing
Abstract
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
Main Authors
Format
Report
Published
2020
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
IZA Institute of Labor Economics
Original source
http://ftp.iza.org/dp13926.pdf
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202101141093Käytä tätä linkitykseen.
Review status
Non-peer reviewed
ISSN
2365-9793
Language
English
Published in
IZA Discussion Papers
Citation
- Böckerman, P., Laine, L. T., Nurminen, M., & Saxell, T. (2020). Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing. IZA Institute of Labor Economics. IZA Discussion Papers, 13926. http://ftp.iza.org/dp13926.pdf
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