Hospital networks are an emerging organizational form designed to face the new challenges of public health systems. Although the benefits introduced by network models in terms of rationalization of resources are known, evidence about stakeholders’ perspectives on hospital network performance...

Since the early 1990s, telemedicine, or the use of information technology to support the delivery of health care from a distance, has increasingly gained the support of clinicians, administrators and policymakers across industrialised countries. However, the "theory of use" behind...