Healthcare technology markets have been recently identified as potential investment targets. Having survived a major environmental shock, the dot. com bust, firms in the healthcare technology industry are presently experiencing an impressive revenue growth. In this study, we investigate the strategies of Emdeon Corporation, a healthcare technology firm whose e-business model provides clues for ...

Healthcare has became a popular issue as its scope involves different sciences, people, and knowledge including medicine, patients, nursing, doctors, various life controlling systems, and information technologies. Healthcare industry connects different complicated events from inputs to outputs of the healthcare system, these events escalate in different situations, and thus they become problems...

Presbyterian Hospital UPMC is a large multi-hospital system. Through pilot programs and trial and error, it has sought to find commonalities in alarm management between different units. Permission to Copy We encourage you to share this paper with your colleagues. You may freely reproduce this publication for educational purposes only, provided that proper attribution is made as follows: Copied ...

Background A model of quality management called Strategic Collaborative Quality Management (SCQM) model was developed based on the quality management literature review, the findings of a survey on quality management assessment in healthcare organisations, semi-structured interviews with healthcare stakeholders, and a Delphi study on healthcare quality management experts. The purpose of this stu...

1 Corresponding author Abstract Healthcare is an important industry that touches most, if not all of us. Healthcare is noted for using leading edge technologies and embracing new scientific discoveries to enable better cures for diseases and better means to enable early detection of most life threatening diseases. However, the healthcare industry globally, and in the US specifically, has been e...

Safety Innovations Pump integration requires pervasive and reliable wireless coverage—if pumps can't communicate with the server via a wireless network, no integration can occur. Permission to Copy We encourage you to share this paper with your colleagues. You may freely reproduce this publication for educational purposes only, provided that proper attribution is made as follows: Copied with th...

For decades, the importance of applying theories and techniques in operations management to healthcare has been recognized by many researchers and practitioners. But due to the highly human-centered characteristic and the high risk involved in healthcare, these well-established theories need to be further studied before they are “borrowed” from manufacturing or other service sectors. In respons...

wish to thank two anonymous referees for their comments on our manuscript of research-in-progress in PACIS 2013. 2 Examining a model of mobile healthcare technology acceptance by the elderly Extended abstract " Graying of the globe " is increasing exponentially worldwide due to the rising number of seniors and retirees in developed countries; accompany with this phenomenon is the expanding heal...