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...

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...

In this paper we outline the tools that have been developed to model and analyze competition and regulation in health care markets, and describe particular papers that apply them to policy-relevant questions. We focus particularly on the I.O. models and empirical methods and analyses that...

This paper investigates the health of white adolescents, focusing particularly on the roles of family background and preventive medical care. This emphasis is motivated in part by our desire to study adolescent health in the context of the nature-nurture controversy. The findings indicate first,...