In the last years, with the overwhelming explosion of medical devices and lack of resources in healthcare among scholars there has been an emerging and growing interest towards the medical equipment inventory management in hospitals. This paper aims at designing a tool of Replacement Priority Index (RPI) to measure the technical variables “technical RPI” through […]
Ageing is a relevant and urgent priority on the agenda of all the most industrialized countries. Ageing is harming the sustainability over time of the national healthcare systems as we know them nowadays. While policymakers are paying major attention to chronic care and the emerging new needs of patients who are aged 60+, less light […]
Health Administrative Databases are among the most promising data in healthcare because of the capability to generate population-based knowledge. This study shows that Health Administrative Databases produce significant knowledge for evaluating hospitals’ performances and supporting policy-makers to set improvement strategies. The empirical setting is the Lombardy Region (Italy) and hospitals treating patients affected by Heart […]
This study discusses the main findings from a systematic literature review about Big Data and analytics in the healthcare field. Although the use of Big Data in healthcare is emerging as fashionable research topic, policy-makers and healthcare professionals still struggle on how to unfold the potential value locked in Big Data. In fact, despite the […]
Purpose – The present study investigates the factors that directly affect the use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) among healthcare professionals. Findings will contribute to our understanding of which explanation (deterministic vs. institutional) might be the most relevant to directly predict adopters’ behaviour, and whether institutional and rational factors are correlated, or represent two separate […]
Purpose – Health policy-makers are increasingly promoting programs that embed cost-opportunity logics. Their implementation requires the mobilization and exploitation of expert knowledge controlled by professionals dispersed in the territory, unaccustomed to share/integrate their knowledge with others, and sometimes adversary to cost-opportunity logics. The success and viability of these programs thus depends on experts’ commitment to […]