Productivity of Information Systems in the Healthcare Industry

Nirup M. Menon (), Byungtae Lee () and Leslie Eldenburg ()
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Nirup M. Menon: Texas Tech University, College of Business MS 2101, Lubbock, Texas 79409
Byungtae Lee: The University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Business, Chicago, Illinois 60607
Leslie Eldenburg: The University of Arizona, Karl Eller School of Management, Tucson, Arizona 85721

Information Systems Research, 2000, vol. 11, issue 1, 83-92

Abstract: This research paper analyzes the impact of information technology (IT)in a healthcare setting using a longitudinal sample of hospital data from 1976 to 1994. We classify production inputs into labor and capital categories. Capital is classified into three components—medical IT capital, medical capital, and IT capital—and labor is classified into two components, medical labor and IT labor. Results provide evidence that IT contributes positively to the production of services in the healthcare industry.

Keywords: organizational productivity; health IS; IS investment; IS performance evaluation; IS research methodology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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