Resisting Technology-Enabled Change Within Healthcare Organization

Nurses resisting information technology.

Resistance in the workplace, by nurses, has not been extensively studied from a sociological perspective. In this paper, nurses' resistance to the implementation and use of computer systems is described and analysed, on the basis of semistructured interviews with 31 nurses in three UK NHS hospitals. While the resistance was not "successful", in that it did not prevent the implementation of the ...

Social, Educational, and Governmental Change Enabled through Information Technology

Innovation as emergence in healthcare: unpacking change from within.

The contemporary healthcare literature suffers from a disproportionate focus on 'given' externally created innovations, and belief in ordered, planned and well-funded implementation processes. As an alternative, the present paper highlights the potential of emergent change processes, using the continuous invention and re-invention of the Rheumatology Quality Registry in Sweden as an example. Th...

Change within Complex Healthcare Systems and Mentors for Ebp

Recently, both healthcare organizations and academic settings have been challenged to develop new models of collaboration that facilitate use of existing evidence to improve patient outcomes (McBride, 2005; Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2002). Several models now exist in the literature to guide the increased use of evidence-based practice (EBP) (Ciliska, DiCenso, Melynk, & Stetler, 2005; Haynes, 1...

Information Systems Success and Technology Acceptance within a Government Organization

Thomas, Patricia. Information systems success and technology acceptance within a government organization. Numerous models of IS success and technology acceptance their extensions have been proposed and applied in empirical. This study continues this tradition and extends the body of knowledge on the topic of IS success by developing a more comprehensive model for measuring IS success and techno...