The impact of privacy regulation and technology incentives: The case of health information exchanges

Management Science

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1042-1063

  Adjerid, Idris ^a   Acquisti, Alessandro ^b   Telang, Rahul ^b   Padman, Rema ^b   Adler Milstein, Julia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics of Information Systems; Healthcare; Information Systems; It Policy and Management; Privacy

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION; HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGES; HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; IT POLICY AND MANAGEMENTS; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECT; PRIVACY REQUIREMENTS; TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 84964333732     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2015.2194     Document Type: Article

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