• DocumentCode
    1581718
  • Title

    Aligning IT Assets to Maximize Healthcare Organizational Performance

  • Author

    Weist, Paul ; Sarnikar, Surendra ; El-Gayar, Omar

  • fYear
    2013
  • Firstpage
    2495
  • Lastpage
    2504
  • Abstract
    This study examines the impact of healthcare information technology assets on organizational efficiency. Using an econometric approach with data envelopment analysis, we examine the effect of IT asset clusters on organizational efficiency as measured relative to a peer group of healthcare organizations We observe that different IT asset clusters have varying effects on organizational efficiency based on the size of the organizations. The results of this study have implications for healthcare organizations in planning their investments across various IT asset clusters.
  • Keywords
    Hospitals; Information technology; Investment; Organizations; Productivity; DEA; Decision Support Systems; IT value; healthcare information technology; hospital performance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    System Sciences (HICSS), 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Wailea, HI, USA
  • ISSN
    1530-1605
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-5933-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1530-1605
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/HICSS.2013.76
  • Filename
    6480147