Impact of Technology Sustainability on Healthcare Governance

Healthcare technology investments must be borne by charity, government subsidy, or patient reimbursement. Such investments can be expensive and require partnerships of public and private institutions. This paper explores the relationship between technology sustainability and healthcare governance of multiinstitutional technology partnerships. A technology is assumed to be sustainable if the initial investment is paid and the operating costs are covered from one or more of these sources. Entirely possible is need for new governance forms in order to manage the initial and ongoing partner expectations. Can partnerships that initially rely on charity and government subsidy transform into self-sustaining or profitable operations? This paper incorporates findings from a business study of the Brazos Valley Telehealth Partnership (BVTP) that provides telemedicine infrastructure for a group of healthcare institutions who serve a seven county rural area. This paper explores the impact of techn...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Thomas Lee Rodgers, Evan E. Anderson, Ming Yuan, Timothy Manning
• Keywords: Biometrics, Government Subsidy, HICSS 2003, Paper, System Sciences, Technology