Health Information Technology Redeployment From Targets to Acquirers in the Healthcare Industry: The Role of Co-Specialized Human Capital in Value Creation
研究了医院并购后，目标医院的健康信息技术重新部署到收购医院如何影响其医疗质量，发现保留目标医院的共同专业化人力资本、诊断背景互补且差异、以及电子健康记录系统兼容性是关键条件。
In view of the increasing number of hospital mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and the significant role of healthcare services in the economy, a variety of recent studies have shed light on how health information technology (HIT) contributes to value creation from hospital M&As. However, little attention has been paid to value creation through the redeployment of the target hospital’s digital resources to the acquiring hospital and the conditions needed to create value from such resource redeployment. This paper highlights how post-M&A HIT redeployment from the target to the acquirer influences the quality of care of the acquirer. First, the results demonstrate the importance of retaining elements of the co-specialized human capital of the target hospital post-M&A as central to creating value from HIT redeployment. Second, HIT redeployment from the target to the acquirer is more valuable when the diagnostic context of the acquiring hospital is complementary to but also distinct from the diagnostic context of the target hospital. Third, the electronic health record system compatibility between the target and the acquirer also plays an essential role in facilitating value creation for the acquiring hospital from the transfer of knowledge-based capabilities from the target.