On the staffing policy and technology investment in a specialty hospital offering telemedicine

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 468-480

  Tarakci, Hakan ^a   Ozdemir, Zafer ^b   Sharafali, Moosa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

E health; Information technology investment; Queuing system; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; GAME THEORY; HOSPITALS; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INVESTMENTS; PERSONNEL SELECTION; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; TECHNOLOGY;

CALL CENTERS; COST COMPONENTS; E-HEALTH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT; OPTIMAL INVESTMENTS; QUEUING SYSTEM; QUEUING THEORIES; RATE DEPENDENTS; TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS; TELEMEDICINE SERVICES; TELEMEDICINE TECHNOLOGIES; TRADE OFFS;

TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 57749089673     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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