Health information exchange as a multisided platform: Adoption, usage, and practice involvement in service co-production

Information Systems Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-18

  Yaraghi, Niam ^a   Du, Anna Ye ^b   Sharman, Raj ^b   Gopal, Ram D ^c   Ramesh, Ram ^b  

^a BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Health information exchange; Multisided platforms; Network externalities

Indexed keywords

COST REDUCTION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGES; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; HEALTHCARE SERVICES; INSTITUTIONAL ISOMORPHISM; MULTI-SIDED PLATFORMS; NETWORK EXTERNALITY; QUALITY ENHANCEMENT; REVENUE MANAGEMENT;

HEALTH;

EID: 84929165628     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2014.0547     Document Type: Article

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