Information technology payoff in the health-care industry: A longitudinal study

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 41-67

  Devaraj, Sarv ^a,b   Kohli, Rajiv ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Decision Support Systems   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Business process reengineering; Health care information systems; Information technology payoff; Information technology productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034435223     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2000.11518265     Document Type: Article

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