Neue Technologien ermöglichen innovative elektronische Gesundheitsdienstleistungen (auch e-health services genannt) sowie Geschäftsmodelle, die auf neue Weise Wert kreieren, liefern und einbehalten. Allerdings scheitern viele dieser e-health services, weil sie kein ökonomisch sinnvolles...

We analyze one-year costs and savings of a telemedically supported case management program after kidney transplantation from the perspective of the German Healthcare System. Recipients of living donor kidney transplantation (N = 46) were randomly allocated to either (1) standard aftercare or (2)...

Die heutige Generation von Smartphones bietet ein breites Einsatzspektrum für ein Gesundheitsmonitoring von der Sammlung gesundheitsbezogener Daten bis zum Tracken von Gesundheitsaktivitäten. Hier ergibt sich aber ein "Dilemma der Techniknutzung": Gerade die Menschen, die im Alter auf Hilfe...

The Netherlands can be seen as one of the best healthcare systems in Europe. However, ICT application in hospitals in this country is somewhat behind the Nordic countries, with many hospitals 'stuck' in the stage of search and 'being interested' without a subsequent move to testing and actual...

The aim of the working paper is to analyse the determinants of telemedicine use. To that end, the study makes two basic contributions. First, it considers six working hypotheses in the context of technology acceptance models (TAMs). Second, it uses data obtained for three samples of 510...

The main purpose of the present study is to provide a highly comprehensive methodological solution for carrying out products/services which fully comply with customers (i.e. end users) functional and performance requirements in Telemedicine field, and furthermore to satisfy multitude end users...

Mobile Cloud Computing is a significant technology which combines emerging domains such as mobile computing and cloud computing which has conducted to the development of one of the most IT industry challenging and innovative trend. This is still at the early stage of devel-opment but its main...

The medical system is facing a wide range of challenges nowadays due to changes that are taking place in the global healthcare systems. These challenges are represented mostly by economic constraints (spiraling costs, financial issues), but also, by the increased emphasis on accountability and...

The aim of the working paper is to analyse the determinants of telemedicine use. To that end, the study makes two basic contributions. First, it considers six working hypotheses in the context of technology acceptance models (TAMs). Second, it uses data obtained for three samples of 510...

From twenty years of information and communication technology (ICT) projects in the health sector, we have learned one thing: most projects remain projects. The problem of pilotism in e-health and telemedicine is a growing concern, both in medical literature and among policy makers, who now ask...