How new technology can help clinical quality, productivity, and the healthcare workforce

Health information and communication technology (HICT) holds enormous potential to improve productivity. Several countries, the UK and the US included, have embraced this idea and spent billions of dollars on promoting HICT adoption. Ari Bronsoler, Joe Doyle, and John Van Reenen reviewed 975 papers in the medical and economics literatures about HICT and found that on average there are major positive effects on patient outcomes and healthcare productivity.