Electronic health record (EHR) systems allow physicians to automate the process of entering patient data relative to manual entry in traditional paper-based records. However, such automated data entry can lead to increased reimbursement requests by hospitals from Medicare by overstating the...

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...

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...

In this paper we describe a generic model of a patient health portal, which is suitable to implement patient access to the evolving German healthcare telematics infrastructure. The portal uses the telematics as a communication infrastructure to ensure the concise and secure exchange of medical...

In this paper, we provide a detailed overview of specific characteristics required to evaluate IS security approaches withregard to their applicability in the healthcare domain. The future of integrated treatment is enabled by e-health solutions thatcomprise health services and information...