Background: In a world increasingly shaped by technological innovation, the healthcare sector plays an important role in society's sustainable advancement. This study explores the use of IoT and RFID technologies to improve hospital operations and modernize healthcare services. Methods: We...

Purpose Despite the advent of New Public Management theories over three decades ago, doubts persist regarding the practical implementation of these principles in the public health-care context. Challenges arise particularly from the type of system where this phenomenon is analyzed. In the...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Section 1: Enabling Hospital Intelligence -- Introduction -- Fundamental Design Components of the Intelligent Hospital -- Network and Wireless Infrastructure -- Environmental Sensing --...

Purpose This paper aims to explain the effects of spirituality at work on organizational commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic. In detail, it investigates whether the active part of spirituality at work, called spiritual expression, has a positive influence on organizational commitment in a...

Hospital Management System is an organized computerized system designed and programmed to deal with day to day operations and management of the hospital activities. The program can look after inpatients, outpatients, records, database treatments, status illness, billings in the pharmacy and...

Chapter 1: Service Design within a Multiplicity Logics in Healthcare -- Chapter 2: Service design for hybrid market constellations in healthcare - From VUCA 2 VUCAR -- Chapter 3: Towards a conceptual framework of hybrid strategies in healthcare: Co-alignment of market and non-market activities...

Chapter 1. Basics of Smart Healthcare Engineering Management -- Chapter 2. Frontier of Smart Healthcare Engineering Management -- Chapter 3. Smart Healthcare Data Exchange and Utilization -- Chapter 4. Smart Healthcare Multi-modal Data Fusion -- Chapter 5. Smart Healthcare Knowledge Inference...

Purpose In recent years, in research and policy circles, there is growing interest in the subject of speaking up (and silence) within the health sector, and there is a consensus that it is a major issue that needs to be addressed. However, there remain gaps in our knowledge and while scholars...

Private equity (PE) plays an increasingly important role in the modern US economy. However, its impacts on owned-firms are incompletely understood. We exploit a historically large leveraged buyout of a national hospital chain to examine how the full life cycle of PE influences hospital-level...

Part I. Cost Efficiency and the Hospital System in the United States -- Chapter 1. Fuzzy Numbers: U.S. Hospital Accounting since the 1930s (Christy F. Chapin) -- Chapter 2. Resisting The Dream of Markets: Maryland’s All-Payer Hospital Rate-Setting System and the Persistence of Regulation in...

We investigate whether two characteristics of non-profit hospital boards - the number of board members and whether the CEO is a board member - are associated with CEO pay and several measures of hospital performance, including price, operating margin, quality, and service to low-income patients....

Krankenhäuser und Universitätsklinika befinden sich in einem massiven Transformationsprozess. Ein Paradigmenwechsel findet statt, der die Grundfesten des deutschen Krankenhauswesens auf den Kopf stellt. Neben "äußeren" Ereignissen, wie Fusionierungen oder Aufkäufe, finden auch nach "innen"...

Gesundheitseinrichtungen stehen vermehrt vor dem Risiko betriebsbeeinträchtigender Ereignisse, die sich gerade im Gesundheitswesen verheerend auswirken können. Das Buch stellt einen praktischen Leitfaden in der immer breiteren Regulierung zur Risikovorsorge vor Cyberattacken, pandemischen...

The purpose of the present work was to analyse the importance of the use of information systems and technologies in management procedures in the hospital sector. We therefore intended to evidence the effects of the use of the information produced by means of those instruments in the improvement...

Der Strukturwandel im Gesundheitswesen wird häufig als Effizienz- und Qualitätsgewinn zugleich gepriesen. Ein soziologischer Blick indes zeigt: was sich hinter der »Ökonomisierung« der Krankenversorgung verbirgt, ist ein höchst kontroverses Unterfangen. Kaspar Molzberger nimmt in Anlehnung...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Danksagung -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- Abbildungsverzeichnis -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Ökonomisierung zwischen Zeitdiagnose und Gesellschaftstheorie -- 3. Ökonomisierung aus praxis- und organisationstheoretischer Perspektive -- 4. Institutioneller Wandel im Gesundheits-...

Moral hazard and provider-induced demand may contribute to overutilization of scarce health care resources. The U.S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and providers respond. We investigate hospice programs'...

This chapter contributes to a better knowledge of the role played by the collective entrepreneurship of networks of scientists and doctors in the transfer and adaptation of ideas on hospital organization and management for modern hospitals with new technology, from Western Europe and above all...

This book demonstrates how hospitals can be transformed into dynamic, patient-centered, and cost-effective organizations. It describes systems for providing safe, high-quality medical services and outlines the importance of data for health outcomes. In this regard, the book underscores the...