This paper considers the adoption of Health Information Technology (HIT) by physician clinics with ten or fewer physicians. The paper considers the theoretical economics literature on technology adoption for a new technology and has a place in the empirical tests of these models. The two major...

There has been an almost 60 percent increase in health care expenditures in the US in the past seven years. Employer-sponsored health coverage premiums have increased significantly (87 percent) in this same period. Besides the cost of care for chronic conditions such as migraine, arthritis and...

Employers throughout West Michigan continue to feel the crushing impact of rising healthcare costs. Nationally, year-over-year increases in health insurance premium costs have exceeded the overall inflation rate since 2000 by about a four-to-one margin. Figure 1-1 highlights the magnitude of...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: By understanding the costs of HIV/AIDS, businesses can understand the incentives for preventing and treating the disease better. This report primarily investigates whether there is a difference in the relationship between HIV/AIDS prevalence rates and related costs in different...

This paper discusses the relationship between two threads of social science research: traditional analysis of healthcare market failures and criticism of the narrow assumptions economic models make. The results that the American healthcare system produces are relatively poor compared to other...

Nurses are a key component of the health care system and have the ability to provide innovative solutions to improve quality and safety for patients, while improving workplace conditions, and increasing recruitment and retention of nurses. Encouraging innovation behaviors among nurses is...

In what ways, if any, does the behavior of government and nonprofit organizations differ? This article examines evidence from two industries–nursing homes and mentally handicapped facilities–to determine whether government and nonprofit organization behavior differs in identifiable...

Über Jahrzehnte war der Krankenhaussektor kaum von Wettbewerb geprägt. Als Folge davon hat sich ein Teil der Einrichtungen nicht in ausreichendem Maße um eine Anpassung an sich verändernde Rahmenbedingungen bemüht, was zu unwirtschaftlichen Strukturen, ineffizienten Prozessen und damit...

As the dynamics of innovation systems vary greatly between industries, policy-makers need to find specific critical points where their actions can encourage development. This paper uses a study of the Australian healthcare system to illustrate how a policy-relevant analytical template can both...

Patient Journey Modeling, a relatively recent innovation in healthcare quality improvement, models the patient's movement through a Health Care Organisation (HCO) by viewing it from a patient centric perspective. A Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) provides a standard project management...