Digitizing the core processes of healthcare delivery is looked at as a solution to control the escalating costs without compromising quality or patient outcomes. However, to date the business value of such IT solutions remains elusive, especially in view of the high failure rate of many solutions coupled with the high user resistance. The uniqueness of the healthcare industry makes measuring th...

The 2010 Journal of Information Technology article, “A Review of the IT Outsourcing Empirical Literature,” analyzed 741 empirical findings on the determinants of Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) decisions and outcomes published between 1992 and 1st quarter 2010. In this paper, we replicated the method and coded additional findings published until the end of 2014. Combining the Lacity et...

As part of its efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, China has committed to expanding the country’s forest area by 40 million hectares and stocking volume by 1.3 billion m from 2006 to 2020. Our analysis suggests that it is very likely that China will realize its goal of forest area expansion; but the target of volume increase represents only a modest gain, which may absorb about 2% of its ...

Tucson Medical Center, a community hospital in Tucson, Ariz., is one of the provider groups participating in the Brookings–Dartmouth ACO Pilot Program to implement accountable care organizations (ACOs), which assume responsibility for improving patient care and lowering total costs and, in turn, share in the savings achieved. This case study explores the characteristics of Tucson Medical Center...

OBJECTIVES Over the past decade, hospitals and clinics have gradually adopted hospital information systems, including provider order entries and electronic health records. Although these systems have helped to improve patient safety and efficiency of healthcare providers, not all healthcare providers and patients are satisfied with the current situation. Healthcare should be smarter. Thus, ther...

Business analytics (BA) systems create value and provide competitive advantage for organisations. We use the resource-based view and dynamic capabilities to develop the BA innovation process (BAIP) model, which describes how BA-enabled opportunities are introduced into organisations through a series of innovation cycles. We use the BAIP model to describe how BA-enabled opportunities were select...

Amongst the emerging Asian Economies, India is a nation with 70 % of population living in rural areas which casts pressure on Government to focus more on development of Rural India. ICT acts as a provider of major opportunities to rural livelihoods and contributes towards poverty reduction. Productivity of rural areas can be enhanced by usage of ICT. Through various E-Governance initiatives lik...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to develop a telehealth network to deliver postdiagnosis cancer care clinical services and education to American Indian and Alaska Native patients, their families, and their healthcare providers. We also sought to identify the challenges and opportunities of implementing such a telehealth-based application for this rural and underserved population. MATERIALS AND METHODS We ...

Since the passing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), models of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), from Pioneer ACOs to Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs, are under way in some areas of the United States. Physician practice acquisitions, payer/provider partnerships, and patientcentered (or primary care) medical home (PCMH) models are also emerging, but vary geographically. At ECRI Institut...

In recent years, a holistic understanding of business process management (BPM) has evolved in Information Systems (IS) research. This understanding considers organizational factors such as strategic alignment, governance, people, and culture as important aspects of BPM beyond Information Technology (IT) and methods. Particularly, organizational culture has been increasingly recognized as a crit...