Strategies for Resolving the Stagnation in Regional Healthcare Networks

Econometric Analysis of the Health Information Exchange as a Trading Market

Abstract

This study describes stagnation problems in regional healthcare networks (hereafter referred to as “networks”) and strategies for overcoming them. If the value of networks were higher than that of conventional systems and if they could be traded at lower cost, the demand for transactions would have increased and the networks would have developed as expected. In reality, however, the value of networks is not fully guaranteed, and repeated excessive subsidies have resulted in the formation of an unhealthy markets where the transaction costs of information goods have remained high and transaction demand has remained low. This has resulted in stagnation due to the lack of economic rationality on the part of users to use the networks. Therefore, to overcome these problems, we proposed a strategy to lower transaction costs for networks.