Conceptual design of an e-health strategy for the Spanish health care system

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 146-157

  González, Marvin E ^a   Quesada, Gioconda ^a,c   Urrutia, Ignacio ^b,d   Gavidia, José V ^a,e  

^a School of Business   (United States)

^b IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity based costs; Balanced scorecard; Benchmarking; Health services; Quality function deployment; Spain

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SPAIN;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SPAIN;

EID: 33645450754     PISSN: 09526862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09526860610651681     Document Type: Article

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