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A Research Model for Measuring IT Efficiency in German Hospitals

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More than 10% of the German gross domestic product is spent on health related services every year summing up to 263bn € in 2008 (Destatis 2010). A large proportion of these funds is invested into information technology (IT). Although solid empirical data on the allocation of these funds is scarce, the available studies offer interesting insights into the importance of IT in German health care: IT accounts for an estimated 2.9-3.7% of hospitals overall budget (VHitG 2010) and for an estimated ~14% of hospital investments (Blum and Schilz 2005).

Another version of this paper appeared as: Gewald, H., and Wagner, H.-T. "A Research Model for Measuring IT-Efficiency in German Hospitals", Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Information Systems, Helsinki, Finland, 2011, pp. 1-8.

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  1. Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Wileystr. 21, 89231, Neu-Ulm, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Heiko Gewald

  2. German Graduate School of Management and Law, Bahnhofstr. 1, 74072, Heilbronn, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Heinz-Theo Wagner

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  1. Fak. Betriebswirtschaftslehre, LS ABWL und Wirtschaftsinformatik I, Universität Mannheim, Schloss, S 220, Mannheim, 68131, Germany

    Armin Heinzl

  2. Fachgebiet Wirtschaftsinformatik, TU Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 1, Darmstadt, 64289, Germany

    Peter Buxmann

  3. , Business Information Systems, University of Kaiserslautern, Gottlieb-Daimler-Str., Kaiserslautern, 67663, Germany

    Oliver Wendt

  4. Information Systems and Services, University Bamberg, Feldkirchenstr. 21, Bamberg, 96045, Germany

    Tim Weitzel

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Gewald, H., Wagner, HT. (2011). A Research Model for Measuring IT Efficiency in German Hospitals. In: Heinzl, A., Buxmann, P., Wendt, O., Weitzel, T. (eds) Theory-Guided Modeling and Empiricism in Information Systems Research. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2781-1_9

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