In order to describe partial cooperation structures, this paper introduces complete coalition structures as sets of feasible coalitions. A complete coalition structure has a property that, for any coalition, if each pair of players in the coalition belongs to some feasible coalition contained in the coalition then the coalition itself is also feasible. The union stable structures, which constit...

This paper aims to develop a research model to examine the mechanisms by which business analytics capabilities in healthcare units are shown to indirectly influence decision-making effectiveness through a mediating role of absorptive capacity. We employed a survey method to collect primary data from Taiwan's hospitals. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used for path analysis. This study co...

Healthcare organizations are facing huge daily challenges which led them trying to give the best solutions in order to manage their resources and deliver a best quality of services. The recent adoption of Business Process Management (BPM) in healthcare organizations is dealing with the development of performance indicators in this domain to help healthcare providers structuring the interaction ...

While healthcare is the biggest service industry on the globe it has yet to realize the full potential of ehealth, which is in stark contrast to other e-business initiatives such as e-government and eeducation, e-finance or e-commerce. This is due to many reasons including the fact that the healthcare industry is faced with many complex challenges in trying to deliver cost-effective, highvalue,...

Patient empowerment in the digitalized healthcare can be supported by means of telemedicine. As opposed to Electronic Patient Records developed by a few large business suppliers for healthcare professionals, telemedical applications include innovative solutions of small-medium size suppliers and are targeted at specific groups of patients (e.g., hip operated or dermatology patients) and their c...