The effect of information technology investments in healthcare: A longitudinal study of its lag, duration, and economic value

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 124-140

  Das, Sidhartha ^a   Yaylacicegi, Ulku ^b   Menon, Nirup M ^a,c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^c IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Administrative IT (AIT); communications IT (CIT); distributed lag models; healthcare informatics; healthcare productivity; patient management IT (PMIT); transactional support IT (TSIT)

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE IT (AIT); HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS; LAG MODEL; PATIENT MANAGEMENT; TRANSACTIONAL SUPPORT IT (TSIT);

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INVESTMENTS; OPERATING COSTS; PRODUCTIVITY; VALUE ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 78951490932     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2010.2048906     Document Type: Article

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