title: Investigating the effects of ICT on innovation and performance of European hospitals: an exploratory study.
abstract: Hospitals are making big investments in various types of ICT, so it is important to investigate their effects on innovation and performance. This paper presents an empirical study in this direction, based on data for 743 hospitals from 18 European countries. We specified and estimated econometrically five equations: one for product innovation, one for process innovation and three equations for the three different dimensions of (ICT-enabled) hospital performance. All five equations included various ICT-related variables reflecting ICT infrastructure and a series of important ICT applications, some of them hospital-specific, and some others of general business use, and also ICT personnel (viewed as a kind of 'soft' ICT investment), while the performance equations also included the two innovation measures.
authors.affiliation: KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland. arvanitis@kof.ethz.ch.
authors.forename: Spyros
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arvanitis
authors.affiliation: Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, 83200, Karlovassi/Samos, Greece.
authors.forename: Euripidis N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Loukis
mesh_terms: D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D036262:Empirical Research; D005060:Europe; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D007449:Investments; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Hospitals; ICT use; Innovation; Performance
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