To Coordinate with or Differentiate From Your Neighbor: The Adoption of Electronic Medical Records by Hospital Systems

Strategic Complements or Substitutes? The Case of Adopting Health Information Technology by U.S. Hospitals

“…Thus, I view the effect from the documentation issue minimal.24 According to the AHA, a hospital chain/system is defined as "either a multihospital or a diversified single hospital system." Most organizational decisions for hospital systems are made by the managing party, who usually faces the tradeoff between localization and consolidation[Baird et al, 2014, Lin, 2019. Also, due to the heterogeneity in hospital systems, it is difficult to characterize their decision process with a simple model.…”