Paper Info
Title
Care Quality, Technology Use, And Online Patient Perception
Abstract
The literature on the efficacy of online reviews suggests that such reviews are usually effective in informing consumers about the product or service. This mitigates information asymmetry, paving the way for an efficient marketplace. However, the literature is unclear about the usefulness of online reviews in the healthcare context. Since healthcare is largely a credence good, it is indeed possible that online reviews are not as informative in its case as they are in some others. In this work, we take a closer look at what online physician reviews actually capture, by studying the association between online reputation of a physician and her adherence to clinical guidelines. We also study the association between reputation and electronic health record (EHR) usage. Our results reveal that online reputation does not adequately reflect care quality, in the sense that improved adherence to care guidelines does not seem to be associated with better online reviews. However, EHR usage seems to have a somewhat positive association, suggesting that reviews can capture efficiency improvements from information technology even when they do not capture care quality.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.24251/hicss.2019.801
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 52ND ANNUAL HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES
Keywords
Field
DocType
Online reviews, clinical guidelines, adherence, physician quality reporting, electronic health records, text mining, online reputation, care quality, efficiency
Computer science,Knowledge management,Perception
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Danish H. Saifee100.68
Indranil R. Bardhan241221.36
Atanu Lahiri38711.37
Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng4211.59