eBusiness in Healthcare From eProcutement to Supply Chain Management

When speaking about eBusiness as applied to the healthcare market two questions arise immediately. Firstly, what is eBusiness? Secondly, why is eBusiness in healthcare different from eBusiness in other sectors? Within the arena of eBusiness in healthcare,

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Kathryn J. Hannah Marion J. Ball Series Editors

Health Informatics Series ( formerly Computers in Health Care) Series Editors Kathryn J. Hannah Marion J. Ball Dental Informatics Integrating Technology into the Dental Environment L.M. Abbey and J. Zimmerman Health Informatics Series Evaluating the Organizational Impact of Health Care Information Systems, Second Edition J.G. Anderson and C.E. Aydin Ethics and Information Technology A Case-Based Approach to a Health Care System in Transition J.G. Anderson and K.W. Goodman Aspects of the Computer-Based Patient Record M.J. Ball and M.F. Collen Performance Improvement Through Information Management Health Care’s Bridge to Success M.J. Ball and J.V. Douglas Strategies and Technologies for Healthcare Information Theory into Practice M.J. Ball, J.V. Douglas, and D.E. Garets Nursing Informatics Where Caring and Technology Meet, Third Edition M.J. Ball, K.J. Hannah, S.K. Newbold, and J.V. Douglas Healthcare Information Management Systems A Practical Guide, Second Edition M.J. Ball,D.W. Simborg, J.W. Albright, and J.V. Douglas Healthcare Information Management Systems Cases, Strategies, and Solutions, Third Edition M.J. Ball, C.A.Weaver, and J.M. Kiel Clinical Decision Support Systems Theory and Practice E.S. Berner Strategy and Architecture of Health Care Information Systems M.K. Bourke Information Networks for Community Health P.F. Brennan, S.J. Schneider, and E. Tornquist Informatics for the Clinical Laboratory A Practical Guide For the Pathologist D.F. Cowan (continued after index)

Ursula Hübner

Marc A. Elmhorst

Editors

eBusiness in Healthcare From eProcurement to Supply Chain Management

With Forewords by Dimitris Karagiannis and Nancy LeMaster

Ursula Hübner, PhD Professor of Health Informatics and Quantitative Methods University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany and Faculty Associate The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Baltimore, MD 21205 USA

Marc A. Elmhorst trinovis GmbH Hannover, Germany

Series Editors: Kathryn J. Hannah, PhD, RN Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health Science Faculty of Medicine The University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada

Marion J. Ball, Ed.D. Professor Emerita, School of Nursing Joint Appointment Health Sciences Informatics School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University and Fellow, Center for Healthcare Management IBM Research Baltimore, MD 21210 USA

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data eBusiness in Healthcare. - (Health informatics) 1. Medical supplies - Purchasing - Data processing 2. Hospital purchasing - Data processing 3. Electronic commerce I. Hubner, Ursula II. Elmhorst, Marc 362.1'1'0687 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007929731

ISBN 978-1-84628-878-4

e-ISBN 978-1-84628-879-1

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