National project for Informatization of the health care system in Slovenia, known as e-health, was initiated in 2005. e-health entails the inclusion of stakeholders into the functional network, reconstruction of the health care system business model as well as integration of many information systems (IS) at different levels. Undertaking this extremely difficult task, while taking into account a complex and multidimensional structure of the health care system, e-health should provide opportunities for high quality and professional work with patients, longterm development and facilitate access to relevant economic, administrative and medical data, required for effective management of the individual health care organizations and health care system in general. The main objectives of the paper comprise the identification and analysis of the key e-health components and success factors, evaluation of the e-health development and production of applicable guidelines for further development and implementation of e-health in Slovenia. Research is based on the extensive document analysis and information retrieval through in-depth investigation of primary and secondary resources and other forms containing e-health related contents, while the evaluation framework was established on the basis of the most important components of e-health, defined during the analysis of existing research in the field. Paper reveals various deficiencies which have in our opinion substantially affected the development of e-health and undermined stakeholdersʼ engagement in the project, which could significantly jeopardize the deadlines set and increase implementation costs.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 4147374The lecture was divided into two parts. The first part was focused on the theoretical framework of e-government, the role of e-government in modern public administration, and existing methodological approaches for the evaluation of e-government policies. The second part of the lecture was focused on the analysis of success factors, various system and environmental drivers and inhibitors for the development of e-government and multi-criteria modeling of e-government policies.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 4084910The paper attempts to measure the relative efficiency of police activities in the Slovenian police at the local level. As the state allocates a relatively large amount of budget funding to police operations and more than one quarter of public employees is employed in the police, the efficient use of limited public funds is even more important. In particular, a threestage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique is presented and then applied to measure the relative efficiency of police work related data for selected police units at the local level (i.e. police stations (PSs)) in 2010 with additional controlling for external (environmental) factors. The results of the DEA empirical analysis reveal that approximately 80 percent of the observed PSs are inefficient relative to their peers. More detailed analysis also shows that, in general, PSs with more than 50 posts occupied are on average less efficient. To some extent, the differences in efficiency scores are a consequence of external factors which the management of police stations cannot influence, yet they are even more a result of better governance and organized police work. Thus, the presented methodology and obtained efficiency results can be a valuable tool in the hands of police management when deciding how to optimally allocate the limited public resources.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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