New empirical evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in the altruism of healthcare providers. Spurred by this evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare providers supply relatively higher quality levels and...

Service oriented device architecture (SODA) is a promising approach for enabling a continuous IT support of medical processes in hospitals. However, there is a lack of specific design patterns for realizing the concept in an effective and efficient way. This paper addresses this research gap by...

E-health basically comprises health services and informationdelivered or enhanced through the Internetand related technologies (Eysenbach, 2001). The futurehealthcare system and its services, enabling e-health, arebased on the communication between all informationsystems of all participants of...

Die ökonomische Evaluation von Gesundheitsleistungen gewinnt insbesondere für die ältere Zielgruppe zunehmend an Bedeutung. Dabei spielt die Kostenermittlung eine zentrale Rolle. Häufig ist dazu eine Erfassung gesundheitsbezogener Ressourcenverbräuche durch Selbstangaben aufgrund der...