BACKGROUND Concept of e-readiness is used in many areas such as e-business, e-commerce, e-government, and e-banking. In terms of healthcare, e-readiness is a rather new concept, and is propounded under the title of E-healthcare. E-health readiness refers to the readiness of communities and healthcare institutions for the expected changes brought by programs related to Information and Communicat...

One area of emerging research focuses on readiness to change, which has a strong impact on many decisions in a change process such as planning, implementation, communication and institutionalization. However, the term ‘readiness’ still creates confusion as it is presented in a simplistic way. This conceptual article aims at increasing our understating of readiness impact on change success by ex...

AIMS To investigate the correspondence between readiness for behaviour change in general and readiness for alcohol related help-seeking in particular. A related aim was to examine how, if at all, measures of dependence severity, use, and consequences were related to a composite measure depicting agreements and disagreements between general change readiness and help-seeking readiness. METHODS ...

This paper analyses the evolution of contextual conditions during advancement degree technological maturity innovative technical solutions and their interplay with R&D processes in setting collaborative inter-organisational publicly-funded projects. Extant literature investigated role for development process technologies across different settings, but has not yet been analysed detail same over ...

In this paper we applied our previously developed assessment framework to the data collected from an internet security readiness survey targeted at households. We used the assessment framework to compute an Internet Security Readiness index for each household, which was in turn derived from Internet Security Readiness capital, skill, and actual uptake/use of infrastructure indices. We then exam...

Estimating individual readiness of military and civilian nursing personnel for deployment to austere environments challenges the best of us. Despite decades of conflicts, crises, and disasters around the world, measuring individual readiness for deployment remains elusive. However difficult, quantifying individual readiness is critical to provide commanders and leaders with information to drive...

The Consultation Readiness Scale is designed to facilitate mental health and other forms of human services consultation. The scale is based on the assumption that consultee-consultant relationships vary in their "readiness" for consultation. A basic task for consultants is to assess the current readiness level and help move the relationship to a higher level. The Consultation Readiness Scale fa...