Implication of E-Health and IT Governance on Healthcare Expenditure: An Econometrics Approach (Case Study Middle East Countries)

Seyed Shahabeddin Sadr, Seyed Mohammad Hossein Sadr and Yazdan Gudarzi Farahani
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Seyed Shahabeddin Sadr: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Seyed Mohammad Hossein Sadr: Department of Management and Accounting, University of Allame Tabataba'I (ATU), Tehran, Iran
Yazdan Gudarzi Farahani: Faculty of Economics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (IJHISI), 2013, vol. 8, issue 2, 58-69

Abstract: This paper analyzes the public healthcare expenditure of Middle Eastern countries in relation to different exogenous explanatory variables, through a panel study involving twelve (12) Middle East countries. More specifically, the study methodology uses panel cointegration, and panel-based error correction models derived from annual data covering the period of 2000 to 2010. The empirical results support a short-run co-integration relationship after allowing for the heterogeneous country effect. The long-run relationship is estimated using a full-modified OLS. The results of a ten-year panel study have been interpreted and commented. The public healthcare expenditure of our countries is explicated to a great extent by the single country GDP. Other strong correlation variables were found also to be statistically significant. The research reveals that e-health programming and e-health governance could lead to a decrease in unnecessary health care expenditure.

Date: 2013
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