A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … observations, hospitals of Saxony have higher efficiency scores than their Swiss counterparts. …

Hospitals are making big investments in various types of ICT, so it is important to investigate their effects on … innovation and performance. In this paper is presented an empirical study in this direction, based on data for 743 hospitals from … for European hospitals. Second, it analyzes the effects of various types of ICT on innovation and (ICT-enabled) economic …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-pro t ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals … which were introduced in 2008 increase spending of hospitals. Only big hospitals proved to take some cost-saving measures as …

The Netherlands can be seen as one of the best healthcare systems in Europe. However, ICT application in hospitals in … this country is somewhat behind the Nordic countries, with many hospitals ?stuck? in the stage of search and ?being …. To better understand these differences, we develop a model of organizational adoption of ICT in hospitals and explore …

-for-performance (P4P) programs have been implemented in the inpatient sector to improve the quality of care provided by hospitals …

hospitals being managed by the DOH. The paper begins with an overview of the hospital sector in the Philippines, describing the …-retained hospitals, an analysis of resource management is undertaken by examining the sources of funds, planning and budgeting cycle …, uses of funds, and monitoring set-up. The paper provides a critique of recent policies concerning hospitals as outlined in …

collate vital information on private hospitals in the Philippines. This paper looks at the different characteristics and … structures of private hospitals sector with regard to geographical distribution, services, financing, human resource, and other … delivery system in the country, other sections compare private hospitals vis-a-vis government-owned facilities. …

provide for emergency and primary care services. It also aims to upgrade government hospitals. This study examines the …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 99 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2001-2008 using Stochastic …. Inefficiency decreases with less than 10,000 patients treated a year, larger population, and more hospitals in the region. …

We estimate a bargaining model of competition between hospitals and managed care organizations (MCOs) and use the … hospitals. We show that increasing patient coinsurance tenfold would reduce prices by 16%. We find that a proposed hospital …