In 2008, Accreditation Canada adopted a new survey methodology, known as Qmentum, which assesses the degree to which its standards are embedded into daily practice. The Qmentum standards include Required Organizational Practices (ROPs), which are practices that must be in place to enhance patient safety and to minimize risk. Health authorities across Canada face significant challenges in assess...

Medical errors are not only caused by individuals but are also associated with faulty systems and processes. Broad implementation of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems may reduce the errors. However, the failure rate of EMR implementations is still high. Therefore, understanding how to achieve a successful implementation is important. This paper looks at the human factor in EMR implementat...

The present study takes a rather innovative approach and investigates the organizational implications of the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in companies from people integration, process integration and information integration perspectives. In this manner we discover the ERPspecific sources of resistance that could affect negatively the deployment of the software in...

This study examined the perceptions of 62 senior nursing students of the readiness of Jordanian organizations for change, students' motivators and their conflict-handling intentions. Such concepts should be taught at Schools of Nursing in order to prepare the students as nurses in the near future. It is found that the course of "Nursing Leadership and Management" has positive influence on stude...

Recent research on cloud computing adoption indicates that there has been a lack of deep understanding of its benefits by managers and organizations. This has been an obstacle for adoption. We report on an initial design for a firmlevel cloud computing readiness metrics suite. We propose categories and measures to form a set of metrics to measure adoption readiness and assess the required adjus...

The current status of policies, guidelines and standards related to the organizational context of clinical telehealth practice were investigated. The directions these should take to meet the healthcare needs of Canadians also were outlined. An environmental scan approach was employed, consisting of a literature review, stakeholder survey questionnaire, and 12 key informant interviews. The liter...

In recent years Business Intelligence (BI) systems have consistently been rated as one of the highest priorities of Information Systems (IS) and business leaders. BI allows firms to apply information for supporting their processes and decisions by combining its capabilities in both of organizational and technical issues. Many of companies are being spent a significant portion of its IT budgets ...

This paper examines the infusion of e-procurement applications along two dimensions of usage – intensity and organizational acceptance – and tests the relationship between use and procurement performance. Drawing upon the resource-based view of the firm, this paper tests the relationship between select organizational resources and e-procurement infusion in the context of procurement of indirect...

This study addresses an IOS (interorganizational system) adoption literature gap by proposing an integrative model of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) adoption and incorporating the effect of perceived radicalness of technology in IOS adoption decisions. Three technological factors (perceived benefit, perceived costs and compatibility), four interorganizational pressure factors (competitiv...

A field study was conducted to determine organizational readiness for implementing Ebusiness solutions by utilizing drivers suggested in the business process reengineering literature. Based on a literature review, we theorized a schematic framework to reflect the anticipated relationships between the independent variables of technology team capabilities, nature and scope of legacy business appl...