Healthcare AI for Automation or Allocation? A Transaction Cost Economics Framework (opens in new tab)

Healthcare productivity is shaped not only by clinical complexity but by the costs of coordinating work under uncertainty. Transaction-cost economics offers a theory of these coordination frictions, yet has rarely been operationalised at task level across health occupations. Using task statements and frequency weights from the O*NET occupational database, we characterised healthcare work at task granularity and coded each unique task using a c...