Cost of controlling modern healthcare with information systems

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages 3978-3985

  Guah, Matthew Waritay ^a   Fink, Kerstin ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INNSBRUCK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Controlling cost; Cost and performance fit; Healthcare is project

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLING COSTS; DECISION MAKERS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; HEALTHCARE DELIVERY; INFORMATION NEED; IS COSTS; IT SYSTEM; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; ON CURRENTS; RESEARCH APPROACH;

COSTS; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 84870260506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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