to explore their approach to healthcare infrastructure planning through: a literature review of stakeholder engagement … reconfiguration of healthcare facilities and services. Consultations by the PCTs vary in: the level of detail provided to the public …: Liberating the NHS” (2010), the NHS in England is being redesigned to provide high quality, person‐centred services with improved …

US health care services will be among the top ten occupations with the fastest growth over the next decade with total … employment in health care services expected to increase by 19 million by the year 2006. As the market continues to expand, demand … services become increasingly critical for health care providers competing for the national health care dollars. A study was …

/methodology/approach – Field research conducted at four healthcare organizations along with academic literature in the areas of telemedicine and … design and deployment of telemedicine projects which provide healthcare organizations with strategic benefits. Design … – Telemedicine can be used as a process enabler for enhanced healthcare‐delivery systems. However, there are several challenges which …

has not fully eventuated. Observational data and opportunistic interviewing are used to answer the research question of …

. Originality/value – This paper responds to recent calls for trans‐disciplinary research on healthcare quality improvement. The …, quality, and information systems journals. Findings – This paper issues a call for research using a trans … safety. Research limitations/implications – The literature review employed systematic, heuristic, iterative and practical …

)‐enabled healthcare transformation projects as compared with other industries. The paper starts with a review of RFID technology in the … healthcare industry and further extends to an in‐depth analysis of mini‐case studies collected from RFID Journal , a leading … purpose, provided 20 cases from the healthcare industry and 49 cases from other industries – so as to assess the business …

mistakes). Research limitations/implications – The paper reports on one case study on one hospital unit. Future studies can …

Indicates that business process re‐engineering (BPR) is becoming more widely adopted within hospital and healthcare … organizations. However, process management in a public sector and healthcare context raises particular problems. Shows that a … European Commission supported project has examined the European application of re‐engineering approaches to healthcare …