2007
DOI: 10.1108/17506120710840170
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E‐healthcare: an analysis of key themes in research

Abstract: PurposeHealthcare is among the fastest‐growing sectors in both developed and emerging economies. E‐healthcare is contributing to the explosive growth within this industry by utilizing the internet and all its capabilities to support its stakeholders with information searches and communication processes. The purpose of this paper is to present the state‐of‐the‐art and to identify key themes in research on e‐healthcare.Design/methodology/approachA review of the literature in the marketing and management of e‐hea… Show more

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“…Health planners want to strengthen relationships with members and providers while reducing their cost of doing business. For patients, as consumers, e-healthcare lends itself as an opportunity to change their relationship with providers and insurance companies (Mukherjee and McGinnis, 2007).…”
Section: Electronic Healthcare (E-healthcare) Conceptmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Health planners want to strengthen relationships with members and providers while reducing their cost of doing business. For patients, as consumers, e-healthcare lends itself as an opportunity to change their relationship with providers and insurance companies (Mukherjee and McGinnis, 2007).…”
Section: Electronic Healthcare (E-healthcare) Conceptmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It comprises two interacting yet somewhat distinct subareas: one focuses on management IT-related issues and the other concentrates on clinical ones (Oh et al, 2005). The focus on management-related IT issues pertains to topics traditionally studied in information systems (e.g., end user system acceptance), information technology (e.g., system development), electronic commerce/business (e.g., online procurement of products and services), consumer marketing (e.g., online promotion of wellness services), organizational management (e.g., electronically administering employee health benefits) (Mukherjee & McGinnis, 2007), and knowledge management (e.g., implementation of virtual communities of practice) (Winkelman & Choo, 2003). The concentration on clinical-centered issues concerns biomechanical, biomedical, information methods in medicine, health topics, and specialized clinical informatics that involve the use of IT (e.g., the application of IT in digital imaging, primary care, dentistry, pharmaceuticals, and nursing) (Hersh, 2009).…”
Section: The E-health Disciplinementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Assuming that physicians dominate medical encounters, Bodkin and Miaoulis (2007) describe physicians as gatekeepers of healthcare information. Several scholars have identified the emergence of the Internet to be a major factor in challenging these traditional roles (Hartzband and Groopman 2010;Mukherjee and McGinnis 2007).…”
Section: Empirical Field: E-health M-health and Medical Smartphone mentioning
confidence: 99%