Public investment in hospitals in Germany has been insufficient for decades, making it difficultto finance digitization …. Due to dual financing, hospitals could alternatively use their own profitsto pay for digitization efforts. This raises the … question of whether there is a relationship betweenprofitability and digitization, i.e., whether profitable hospitals are more …

help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …

Hospital digitalization is to reduce costs, increase efficiency and productivity, and to improve quality of care …. However, the literature lacks clarity on the meaning of "hospital digitalization," how to measure it, and what quality it …Die Digitalisierung von Krankenhäusern hat das Potenzial, Kosten zu senken, die Effizienz zu steigern und die Qualität …

development over time. We measure financial performance by a hospital-specific yearly probability of default (PD). Using a panel … of hospital data, our models allow for state dependence in the PD as well as unobserved individual heterogeneity. We find … because the German hospital market has substantial excess capacities. …

Instruments zur Evaluierung des Reifegrades der Krankenhäuser hinsichtlich der Digitalisierung - DigitalRadar Krankenhaus - dient …. Verschiedene Studien der vergangenen Jahre haben die Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen offengelegt und … gezeigt, dass Deutschland in vielen Feldern (z. B. Standardisierung, Interoperabilität, Patientenpartizipation) deutliches …

effect on efficiency is related to differences in hospital planning in Germany and Switzerland. Based on the comparable …A nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is performed on hospitals in the federal state of Saxony (Germany) and … countries. Finally, hospital beds are treated as a discretionary input in one DEA and as a fixed input in the other, and the …

zunehmende Patientenwanderung zwischen den ändern. Ein steigender Anteil von Patienten wählt zur Behandlung ein Krankenhaus …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …