Abstract: Information management in hospitals is challenging due to vast amounts of information and a great number of people participating in the organisational functions. Information management plays an important role in the provision of care and it can be improved by information and communication technology. The purpose of this literature review is to describe what information and communicati...

While recent studies indicate that value-based management (VBM) helps owners in aligning managerial interests (i.e., decision-influencing role), little evidence is provided for its support decision-making decision-facilitating role). We investigate whether the depth of VBM implementation and contextual factors may determine VBM’s role. our research question on a dataset 1,774 divestitures by Eu...

The preservation and rational use of the grown harvest, obtaining maximum product output from raw materials today is one most important state tasks. Automation production processes main area in which currently advancing around world. Everything that was previously performed by person himself, his functions, not only physical but also intellectual, are gradually transferred to automation systems...

Many questions in managerial decision making imply —if uncertainty is involved— stochastic optimization problems of the form V (S) = max x E {∫ ∞ 0 e−ρtf(S, x) dt } where the state transition dS = g(S, x) dt + σ(S) dz describes the underlying stochastic process S as an Itō process and dz is a Brownian motion. For very simple problems, results can be obtained analytically by solving the correspo...

While the critical role of an evidence base for policy decision-making in health care is obvious and well documented, the same cannot be said for daily decision making by health care managers at all levels of the system. The relevance for heads of clinical departments, chief nurses, and specialist units became clear when directing a University Hospital and later being part of the management of ...