The economics of social computing: Some preliminary findings on healthcare organizations

Journal of Computational Science

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 253-261

  Leung, Ricky C ^a   Pasupathy, Kalyan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption effectiveness; Data envelopment analysis; Health information technology; Information economics; Social computing

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION EFFECTIVENESS; EXTENSIVITY; HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS; INFORMATION ECONOMICS; INTENSIVITY; POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS; SOCIAL COMPUTING;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

HOSPITALS;

EID: 80052884408     PISSN: 18777503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocs.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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