title: Specific factors influencing information system/information and communication technology sourcing strategies in healthcare facilities.
abstract: Healthcare facilities use a number of information system/information and communication technologies. Each healthcare facility faces a need to choose sourcing strategies most suitable to ensure provision of information system/information and communication technology services, processes and resources. Currently, it is possible to observe an expansion of sourcing possibilities in healthcare informatics, which creates new requirements for sourcing strategies. Thus, the aim of this article is to identify factors influencing information system/information and communication technology sourcing strategies in healthcare facilities. The identification was based on qualitative research, namely, a case study. This study provides a set of internal and external factors with their impact levels. The findings also show that not enough attention is paid to these factors during decision-making.
authors.affiliation: University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic m.potancok@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Potančok
authors.affiliation: Paneuropean University, Slovak Republic.
authors.forename: Jiří
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Voříšek
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003657:Decision Making; D004867:Equipment Design; D006268:Health Facilities; D006295:Health Resources; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D036301:Qualitative Research
keywords: health information systems; health information technology; information technology design and development methodologies; information technology healthcare evaluation; sourcing