Health care services in German hospitals are causing immense expenses. Successful IT Governancemight help to support specific challenges for every organization with an adequate use of IT. Themarket structure of hospitals in Germany is very heterogeneous, e.g. in size and sponsorship. Thispaper...

Our analysis of seven companies from the German medical engineering industryrevealed that product-service-systems play a central role in value creation. Customer solutionsare highly individual and often consist of a medical product and corresponding servicesspanning the complete product life...

Der Durchdringungsgrad von IT nimmt in Krankenhäusern stetig zu. Hierbei lässt sich grundsätzlichzwischen administrativen und medizinischen IT-Systemen unterscheiden. Die vorliegende Studieuntersucht den wahrgenommenen Wertbeitrag von IT in Krankenhäusern aus Perspektive vondrei wichtigen...

We provide an overview of the growing literature that uses micro-level data from multiplecountries to investigate health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at olderages. Since the data are at a comparatively young stage, much of the analysis is at an earlystage and limited to a...