TY  - JOUR
N2  - Customer relationship management (CRM) is an innovative technology that seeks to improve customer satisfaction, loyalty, and profitability by acquiring, developing, and maintaining effective customer relationships and interactions with stakeholders. Numerous researches on CRM have made significant progress in several areas such as telecommunications, banking, and manufacturing, but research specific to the healthcare environment is very limited. This systematic review aims to categorise, summarise, synthesise, and appraise the research on CRM in the healthcare environment, considering the absence of coherent and comprehensive scholarship of disparate data on CRM. Various databases were used to conduct a comprehensive search of studies that examine CRM in the healthcare environment (including hospitals, clinics, medical centres, and nursing homes). Analysis and evaluation of 19 carefully selected studies revealed three main research categories: (i) social CRM â??eCRMâ??; (ii) implementing CRMS; and (iii) adopting CRMS; with positive outcomes for CRM both in terms of patients relationship/communication with hospital, satisfaction, medical treatment/outcomes and empowerment and hospitals medical operation, productivity, cost, performance, efficiency and service quality. This is the first systematic review to comprehensively synthesise and summarise empirical evidence from disparate CRM research data (quantitative, qualitative, and mixed) in the healthcare environment. Our results revealed that substantial gaps exist in the knowledge of using CRM in the healthcare environment. Future research should focus on exploring: (i) other potential factors, such as patient characteristics, culture (of both the patient and hospital), knowledge management, trust, security, and privacy for implementing and adopting CRMS and (ii) other CRM categories, such as mobile CRM (mCRM) and data mining CRM. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
SN  - 09205489
Y1  - 2020///
KW  - Data mining; Hospitals; Industrial research; Knowledge management; Patient treatment; Public relations; Quality control; Sales
KW  -  Analysis and evaluation; Customer relationship management; Customer relationship management systems; Customer relationships; Healthcare environments; Innovative technology; Medical operations; Systematic literature review
KW  -  Customer satisfaction
TI  - Customer relationship management systems (CRMS) in the healthcare environment: A systematic literature review
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85083270400&doi=10.1016%2fj.csi.2020.103442&partnerID=40&md5=ca68ec9839a122adf1a2f2cf8c5e708b
A1  - Baashar, Y.
A1  - Alhussian, H.
A1  - Patel, A.
A1  - Alkawsi, G.
A1  - Alzahrani, A.I.
A1  - Alfarraj, O.
A1  - Hayder, G.
N1  - cited By 40
ID  - scholars12884
PB  - Elsevier B.V.
JF  - Computer Standards and Interfaces
AV  - none
VL  - 71
ER  -