Towards assessing the networkability of health care providers: A maturity model approach

Information Systems and e-Business Management

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 309-333

  Fitterer, René ^a   Rohner, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Enterprise interoperability; Health care; Maturity model; Networkability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956935653     PISSN: 16179846     EISSN: 16179854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10257-009-0121-9     Document Type: Article

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