How German hospitals govern IT - An empirical study
ISBN
978-88-6129-391-5
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2009-06-01
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Newell, Susan
Research Team
iw6-init
Abstract
Health care services in German hospitals are causing immense expenses. Successful IT Governance might help to support specific challenges for every organization with an adequate use of IT. The market structure of hospitals in Germany is very heterogeneous, e.g. in size and sponsorship. This paper analyses the state of the art of IT Governance based on a survey among 220 IT executives in German hospitals. The quantitative analyses of collected survey data reveal that hospitals govern their IT differently according to size and sponsorship. In addition, our analyses show that decision-making authority for the IT budget rises with hospital size and is positively correlated with the fraction of IT projects in the overall IT budget. We also show that the investments in innovative IT projects increase with hospital size. Our study revealed that a high number of private and larger hospitals lack a systematic IT Governance approach within the decision domain on IT projects. This study is the first to shed light into the empirical situation of IT Governance in German hospitals.
Language
English
Keywords
IT Governance
IT Management
German hospitals
eHealth
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Information systems in a globalising world : challenges, ethics and practices ; ECIS 2009, 17th European Conference on Information Systems
Publisher
Università di Verona, Facoltà di Economia, Departimento de Economia Aziendale
Publisher place
Verona
Event Title
17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2009
Event Location
Verona
Event Date
08.-10.06.2009
Official URL
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
219676
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