With the proliferation of the electronic commerce epurchasing has become a daily practice for many purchasing organizations. To embrace e-purchasing successfully, these organizations should identify determinants that are crucial for its successful adoption. In an effort to identify such determinants, including organizational readiness, information technology infrastructure, and user characteris...

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...

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems represent an opportunity to improve the delivery of health care. However, low implementation rates inhibit the ability of EHR to fulfill the promise of the information systems. One possible reason why implementation rates remain low is the high degree of customization required by clinical workers to fit the information systems to the organization. This wor...

Eleven subjects squeezed an electronic dynamometer, at each of three force levels, with both their right and left hands. In right-handed subjects the premovement "readiness" potentials were larger over the hemisphere contralateral to the responding hand. Left-handed subjects show contralateral dominance when responding with the right hand but not when responding with the left hand. The data sug...

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...