Digital Maturity and Technical Efficiency in NHS Acute Trusts: Cross-Sectional Evidence from England (opens in new tab)

Whether investment in digital health technology is associated with differences in hospital productivity is a question of substantial policy relevance, yet interpretation is constrained by challenges in causal identification and prior evidence is mixed. Technical efficiency in NHS acute hospital trusts in England is estimated using Bayesian stochastic frontier analysis. A four-input Cobb--Douglas production function incorporating clinical full-ti...