eignet. Ein Exkurs zum amerikanischen Gesundheitswesen vermittelt dem Leser den n?tigen Hintergrund. Eine kritische …The paper is concerned with the efficient organization of contractual relationships between health insurers and … health care system. The focus lies on an ex ante alignment of incentive structures as well as on an efficient handling of …

In this research we will focus on three topics which we think are particularly relevant for hospital competition: i …) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with …

Outsourcing can be defi ned as the delivery of public services by the private sector. The sign of the effect of … outsourcing on public spending is ambiguous ex-ante. While outsourcing may reduce public spending through higher competition in … outsourcing and public spending empirically. Spain offers an interesting case study from a broad perspective, as the degree of …

the existing structures in the health care sector in general and the hospital sector in particular. The environmental …Das Gesundheitswesen in Deutschland steht vor gravierenden Veränderungen: Die gesellschaftlichen Aufgabenstellungen … Gesundheitswesen allgemein und insbe-sondere im Krankenhaussektor nachhaltig verändern wird. Treiber des Wandels sind demographische …

and opinion formulators in the South African health caresector. By following a combination of the various qualitative … researcher selected interviewees from the South African health care sector. Theinterviews included role players in the … serveas a proposed generic PPP model (PGM) in the pharmaceutical sector for the SouthAfrican health care milieu …

The health industry has acquired a reputation as lagging in the use of information technology (IT). Therefore, this … study has been undertaken to assess state health's use of IT and then to assess the causal factors of the differing usage … rate, if any. The state health industry was compared to the banking industry as a benchmark, on the basis that the banking …

Osterweiterung in Kraft. Für die Gesundheitsversorgung, die bislang weitgehend auf nationaler Ebene erfolgte, eröffnet sich erstmals …

. Für die Strukturierung der Nachfrageseite für netzbasierte Dienste werden die Theorien der Auslagerung (Outsourcing) von … communication policy. For ASP demand, theories of outsourcing of information technologies, methods and instruments of cost …-and-utility-measuring and the theory of transaction phases of outsourcing are used. The basis for both supply-side and demand-side evaluations …