At present Germany experiences a shake-up of the hospital industry, following the introduction of a DRG-based hospital budgeting system. Hospital owners re-evaluate their assets and adapt their strategies to the new regulatory environment. Benchmarking studies play a vital role in assessing own...

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...

This paper analyses the process of knowledge growth in a branch of medical science. Our study of scientific advances in glaucoma research is organized in two parts. In the first we present a qualitative overview of the problem sequences that have characterized 150 years of medical research in...

Interaction between private and public organisations is a fundamental source of innovation and a crucial framing condition for reaping the benefits of new technologies through their diffusion in regulated domains. With a focus on the health sector, in this essay we investigate the emergence of...

In the international health care literature there is a broad discussion on impactsof competition in health care markets. But aspects of standardization in regionalhealth care markets with no price competition received comparatively little attention.We use a typical Hotelling-framework (reference...

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 Personal Health Manager (PHM) ist ein IT-gestütztes Bewegungsprogrammum körperlich inaktive Menschen an einen aktiveren Lebensstil heranzuführen.Für den PHM wurden Software, Hardware, persönliche und computervermittelteDienstleistungen zu einer kostengünstigen und...

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...

Germany is introducing a nation-wide health telematics infrastructure that enables various electronic health services (EHS). Little is known about the burdens and drivers for potential adoption of these innovations. Based on a quantitative study among German physicians participating in pilot...

Clinical pathways describe treatment processes within a hospital. They can be used as process models, which can be controlled by implemented workflow models in information systems. This enables (semi-) automated processes, and they are therefore high potential for an improved quality management...