Assessing the Capital Efficiency of Healthcare Information Technologies Investments: An Econometric Perspective

Rodolphe Meyer; Patrice Degoulet

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1638591

Yearbook of Medical Informatics, Table of Contents

Yearb Med Inform 2008; 17(01): 114-127
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1638591

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Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart

Assessing the Capital Efficiency of Healthcare Information Technologies Investments: An Econometric Perspective

Rodolphe Meyer

¹University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

³INSERM - UMRS 872 eq 20, Paris, France

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Patrice Degoulet

²Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou and Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

³INSERM - UMRS 872 eq 20, Paris, France

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Econometrics - return on investment (ROI) - health care information technologies - HIT - production function - Cobb-Douglass - productivity

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