Information Systems and Healthcare XXIV: Factors Affecting the EAI Adoption in the Healthcare Sector

Information Systems and Healthcare XXV: Factors and Actors Affecting the EAI Adoption in the Healthcare Sector

Towards a Conceptual Framework of Actors and Factors Affecting the EAI Adoption in Healthcare Organisations

The non-integrated nature of Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) is strongly associated with a reduction in the quality of care and the medical errors that occur. In particular, around 80,000 people die per year or paralyse in Australia due to problems related to medical errors and are mainly caused by the non-integrated nature of HIS. There is therefore a real need to integrate the Informatio...

Factors affecting the adoption of healthcare information technology

In order to improve the quality and performance of healthcare services, healthcare information technology is among the most important technology in healthcare supply chain management. This study sets out to apply and test the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), to examine the factors influencing healthcare Information Technology (IT) services. A structured questionnaire ...

Factors affecting the adoption of quality assurance technologies in healthcare.

PURPOSE In the light of public concern and of strong policy emphasis on quality and safety in the nursing care of patients in hospital settings, this paper aims to focus on the factors affecting the adoption of innovative quality assurance technologies. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Two sets of complementary literature were mined for key themes. Next, new empirical insights were sought. Data ga...

The Role of Corruption and Healthcare Expenditure in Healthcare Systems of the Persian Gulf Region

Background and Purpose: More than a third of the world’s population lack access to essential medicines, despite the presence of several international agreements that proclaim health as a human right. Corruption, in its many forms, such as bribery and embezzlement, causes several detrimental effects on the health sector and access to medicines including economic, health, and government ima...