AIM Financial barriers are a major factor of slow electronic health record (EHR) adoption among US hospitals. All existing literature focuses on relationships between current or short-term financial position and EHR adoption. This study examines relationship between financial position in previous years and the current level of EHR adoption. METHODS Retrospective longitudinal data were extract...

A public sector undertaking may be defined as a business undertaking, which is owned managed and controlled by the State, on behalf of public at large. These undertakings have come to enjoy a unique position in the Indian economy in the post independence era. They have been responsible for forming a strong industrial base and providing the basic infrastructure for development in the country. Fr...

©2006 Medical Group Management Association. All rights reserved. Many medical group practices find that weak cash flow represents their top financial challenge. No matter how strong their productivity, payer mix or market position, claim processing and collections bog down. Five “failure points” in the revenue cycle typically account for most of the financial drag. Fixing them takes focus, dete...

Financial decision has been considered as a rational choice that can be axiomatized perfectly within the framework of Expected Utility Theory (EUT). Nevertheless, this scientific focus, in spite of its high level of applicability and dominant position, presents a number of paradoxes, and it has been increasingly noted that theoretical conclusions differ from the financial decisions and behavior...

This paper aims to analyze the financial sustainability of selected MFIs. In this regard, it deals with concept of sustainability, financial sustainability including operational and financial selfsufficiency. It also deals operating performance, staff productivity, portfolio quality and relation of financial sustainability with other variables. Nepalese MFIs are not strong from status of sustai...

This paper classifies different types of financial architecture in an economy with investment complementarities and imperfect information. Classification is done according to the roles played by direct and intermediated finance. When the return on assets traded in financial markets is more volatile than the returns offered by intermediaries, financial intermediation improves the coordination am...

Financial institutions in Australia fall broadly into two categories: intermediaries, comprising banks, building societies, finance companies and others which borrow and lend money (many also provide payment services), and insurers and funds managers, which pool risks and/or invest funds on behalf of others. The share of financial system assets controlled by intermediaries has fallen over the p...