How german hospitals govern it - An empirical exploration

Felix Köbler, Jens Fähling, Jan Marco Leimeister, Helmut Krcmar

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Abstract

Health care services in German hospitals are causing immense expenses. Successful IT Governance might help to support specific challenges for every organization with an adequate use of IT. The market structure of hospitals in Germany is very heterogeneous, e.g. in size and sponsorship. This paper analyses the state of the art of IT Governance based on a survey among 220 IT executives in German hospitals. The quantitative analyses of collected survey data reveal that hospitals govern their IT differently according to size and sponsorship. In addition, our analyses show that decision-making authority for the IT budget rises with hospital size and is positively correlated with the fraction of IT projects in the overall IT budget. We also show that the investments in innovative IT projects increase with hospital size. Our study revealed that a high number of private and larger hospitals lack a systematic IT Governance approach within the decision domain on IT projects. This study is the first to shed light into the empirical situation of IT Governance in German hospitals.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2009
Veranstaltung17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009 - Verona, Italien
Dauer: 8 Juni 200910 Juni 2009

Publikationsreihe

Name17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009

Konferenz

Konferenz17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009
Land/GebietItalien
OrtVerona
Zeitraum8/06/0910/06/09

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