Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 16 Issue 2/3

ERP implementation in rural health care

Kenneth J. Trimmer, Lela D. “Kitty” Pumphrey, Carla Wiggins

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems provide organizations with the opportunity to integrate individual, functionally‐oriented information systems. Although much of the…

Enhancing clinical and management discourse in ICT implementation

Teresa Waring, David Wainwright

Modern NHS organisations are seen to be increasingly reliant, in terms of achieving improvements and service targets, on the efficient provision of information to enable clinical…

The deferrable elective patient: A means of reducing waiting‐lists in orthopaedics

John Bowers, Gillian Mould

The orthopaedic trauma session is almost universally adopted as a means of coping with non‐elective orthopaedic demand. Here patients who can be stabilised are treated in a…

Management demands on information and communication technology in process‐oriented health‐care organizations: The importance of understanding managers’ expectations during early phases of systems design

Anna Andersson, Vivian Vimarlund, Toomas Timpka

There are numerous challenges to overcome before information and communication technology (ICT) can achieve its full potential in process‐oriented health‐care organizations. One…

A proposed approach for modelling health‐care systems for understanding

Tillal Eldabi, Zahir Irani, Ray J. Paul

Discrete event simulation (DES) application is not as widely perceived as being useful for problem solving in the health‐care arena as in other application areas. Suggests that…

Clinical ICT systems: augmenting case management

Lynne P. Baldwin, Malcolm Clarke, Russell Jones

In order to improve the diagnosis and subsequent care given to patients, health‐care workers involved in the management of their care, as well as the treatment itself, are…

Evaluation of the impact of a PACS system on an intensive care unit

Benita Cox, Nina Dawe

Describes part of a wider evaluation exercise undertaken to assess the impact of the introduction of a picture‐archiving and communication system (PACS) on the adult intensive…

Implementation of intelligent decision support systems in health care

A.E. Smith, C.D. Nugent, S.I. McClean

The full implementation of any intelligent system in health care, which is designed for decision support, has several stages, from initial problem identification through…

Using geographical information systems for management of back‐pain data

G. Ghinea, D. Gill, A. Frank, L.H. de Souza

In the medical world, statistical visualisation has largely been confined to the realm of relatively simple geographical applications. This remains the case, even though hospitals…

Managing managed care: the enabling role of IS/IT

Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Roberta Lamb

In their conceptualization of the principal/agent relationship, Jensen and Meckling were not referring to a knowledge worker (KW) agent. Agency theory is extended to the context…