Healthcare Management

Health Informatics

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When speaking about eBusiness as applied to the healthcare market, two questions
arise immediately. First, what is eBusiness? Second, why is eBusiness in
healthcare different from eBusiness in other industries? In this chapter, we shall
give an overview of the foundations of eBusiness, explain the importance of
eBusiness within the healthcare domain, and describe the peculiarities of the
healthcare market. This chapter acts as a framework for the topics in the following
chapters, and describes the context of the economic and business issues, the
technologies, and their applications which will be further elaborated in those
chapters.
It is the goal of this book to raise the awareness of, and interest in,
electronically mediated business processes in healthcare in a large audience
of managers, clinicians, pharmacists, scientists, and students. Within the arena
of eBusiness in healthcare, we focus on purchasing and selling online as the
most advanced application. Here we shall consider both the perspective of the
healthcare providers and that of the suppliers, showing the interdependencies
between the two and developing concepts for a new synergistic cooperation.
By taking an international approach to the topic, our aim is to demonstrate
the many similarities of eBusiness problems and their solutions among the
different countries and to permit analysis of the differences that are often
defined by the national healthcare systems and their rules. Case studies from
healthcare institutions and suppliers in the United States, the United Kingdom,
and Germany will illustrate the achievements, barriers, and future plans, thus
enabling newcomers to learn from previous experiences. This book explicitly
addresses clinicians by demonstrating the interconnection between patient care
processes and management issues at the level of medical supplies. It makes a plea
for a multidisciplinary effort.

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Publisher

: ., 2008

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1-346

Language

English

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978-1-84628-879-1

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Health Informatics

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