OBJECTIVES This study presents the information system for Pusan National University Hospital (PNUH), evaluates its performance qualitatively, and conducts economic analysis. METHODS Information system for PNUH was designed by component-based development and developed by internet technologies. Order Communication System, Electronic Medical Record, and Clinical Decision Support System were newl...

Michael Lindner,* Sarah Rudorf,* Robert Birg, Armin Falk, Bernd Weber, and Klaus Fliessbach Center for Economics and Neuroscience, University of Bonn, Nachtigallenweg 86, 53127 Bonn, Germany, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 7BE, United Kingdom, Department of Epileptology, University Hospital Bonn, SigmundFreud-Str. 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany,...

1 Research Institute Havelhöhe (FIH), Havelhöhe Hospital, 14089 Berlin, Germany 2Department of Oncology, Havelhöhe Hospital, 14089 Berlin, Germany 3 Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité University Medicine, 14089 Berlin, Germany 4 Institute of Integrative Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, 58313 Herdecke,...

Data from 94 Alabama hospitals are examined to determine the relative profitability of sixteen outpatient Diagnosis Related Groups. Analysis of variance and Bonferroni multiple comparisons are made. Supplemental outpatient services are shown to be the most profitable outpatient service studied. Citation: Hegji, Charles, (2007) "A brief look at hospital profits by outpatient services offered." E...

Franz Porzsolt, Tania Gouvêa Thomaz, Thiago Inocêncio Constâncio, Aluisio Gomes da Silva-Júnior, Antonio Claudio Lucas da Nóbrega I University Hospital Ulm, Clinical Economics and Health Care Research at the Hospital for General and Visceral Surgery, Ulm, Germany. II Universidade Federal Fluminense, Biomedical Institute, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Niterói/RJ, Brazil. III Childre...

Julen Hernandez Lallement, Katarina Kuss, Peter Trautner, Bernd Weber, Armin Falk, and Klaus Fliessbach Center for Economics and Neuroscience, University of Bonn, Nachtigallenweg, 53113 Bonn, Germany, Department of Comparative Psychology, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany, Department of Epileptology, University Hospital Bonn, S...

This paper examines the economics of for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals through the prism of capital acquisitions. The exercise suggests that of two hospitals that are equally efficient in producing health care, the for-profit hospital would have to charge higher prices than the not-for-profit hospital would, to break even on capital acquisitions. The reasons for this divergence are (1) th...