edit: Despite the increasing importance of digital transformation in healthcare systems, the path towards the digital transformation of hospitals still presents some problems(Raimo et al., 2023),  in such a way that most digital transformation projects have not lived up to expectations (Preko and Boateng, 2020). In this regard, Agarwal et al. (2010) found that health care improvements related to digital transformation often fail to materialize. A recent systematic literature review conducted by Marques and Ferreira (2020) highlighted a sharp increase in the last twenty years of studies on the topic of digital transformation in healthcare originations such as hospitals. However, the authors highlighted that these studies focused mainly on specific issues such as integrated management, medical images, electronic medical records and virtual services. The contributions that dealt with the digital transformation of hospitals from a broader perspective focused mainly on the identification of the different digital technologies implemented, on the advantages and benefits deriving from the implementation of digital technologies and on the barriers and challenges associated with the implementation of these technologies (Tortorella et al., 2020a). However, there is an important gap in the academic literature since only a limited number of studies have examined the drivers capable of influencing the level of digital transformation of hospitals, so empirical research on the drivers of digital transformation of hospitals is still lacking (Raimo et al., 2023; Kraus et al., 2021b).