Many of the current crises in contemporary healthcare management centre on issues concerning information management and costs. Electronic commerce (or e-commerce) activity, grounded in the development of the Internet, is challenging traditional management models and providing new paradigms and possible solutions for improved health care management. Australia’s health industry, like other econom...

This article reports the survey results from attendees at a large US health-care conference. Conference attendees were polled on a number of healthcare reform issues along with some basic demographic information. Few signifi cant differences were found based on respondents ’ gender, or surprisingly even whether they were employed in the health-care industry. Rather, the most striking difference...

The paper discusses current and future applications of information technology within the healthcare industry. It presents some broad strategies for approaching information technology investments and various tools available.

BACKGROUND The adoption of healthcare technology is arduous, and it requires planning and implementation time. Healthcare organizations are vulnerable to modern trends and threats because it has not kept up with threats. OBJECTIVE The objective of this systematic review is to identify cybersecurity trends, including ransomware, and identify possible solutions by querying academic literature. ...

IT initiatives in healthcare often promise much but fail to deliver. As with IT projects in any other industry, healthcare projects may be abandoned before delivery, or if delivered, they may lack adoption or fail to deliver continuous use over a sustained period of time. Failure factors typically discussed in the IS literature fail to fully explain why sustainability is such an issue in the he...

Despite the growing number of e-health websites that are dedicated to health education and information therapy, healthcare provider organizations have been slow in embarking on significant e-commerce ventures to improve the delivery of healthcare services to patients and consumers in geographically dispersed communities. More specifically, hospitals and health provider organizations tend to use...

12 Reflections ■ Volume 6, Number 4/5 reflections.solonline.org Are Healthcare Organizations LearningDisabled? In our work, my colleagues and I have found that the organizational dynamics in hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare organizations tend to include an overemphasis on advocacy, power and control, personal agendas, blame, and other fear-based dynamics. Although it is true that...

This material is brought to you by the Journals at AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). It has been accepted for inclusion in Communications of the Association for Information Systems by an authorized administrator of AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). For more information, please contact [email protected]. Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) is widely regarded as a key to improving the quality o...

Many healthcare professionals question whether the industry's hospitals and multi-site systems are implementing the necessary executive development and succession planning systems to ensure that high potential managers are prepared and aptly selected to assume key executive roles. Survey data, case studies, and cross-industry comparisons suggest that healthcare organizations may face a leadersh...

mcdonough’s perspective on healthcare reform in the us provides a clear, coherent analysis of the mix of access and delivery reforms in the affordable care act (aca) aka obamacare. as noted by mcdonough, this major reform bill is designed to expand access for health coverage that includes both prevention and treatment benefits among uninsured americans. additionally, this legislation includes s...