Smart Healthcare Digitalization: Using ICT to Effectively Balance Exploration and Exploitation within Hospitals

Smart Healthcare Digitalization: Using ICT to Effectively Balance Exploration and Exploitation within Hospitals

Most of the literature on healthcare digitalization is focused on the benefits, the barriers and the determinants of the adoption of ICT-based solutions within hospitals. Little is understood about how hospital digitalization can be accomplished or how this digitalization fosters an increase in hosp...

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Main Authors: Luca Gastaldi, Mariano Corso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2012-07-01
Series:International Journal of Engineering Business Management
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5772/51643
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spelling doaj-1d8155f1515b48bba6696dba4e78418e2021-04-02T15:49:08ZengSAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Engineering Business Management1847-97902012-07-01410.5772/5164338050Smart Healthcare Digitalization: Using ICT to Effectively Balance Exploration and Exploitation within HospitalsLuca GastaldiMariano CorsoMost of the literature on healthcare digitalization is focused on the benefits, the barriers and the determinants of the adoption of ICT-based solutions within hospitals. Little is understood about how hospital digitalization can be accomplished or how this digitalization fosters an increase in hospital performance — both in terms of quality improvement and cost rationalization — by ambidextrously combining the exploration and exploitation of hospital assets. This paper sheds a preliminary light on the topic, identifying a set of action-oriented propositions for smart healthcare digitalization within hospitals.https://doi.org/10.5772/51643
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