This paper, the first in a series of WSDAN briefing papers, looks at how telehealth and telecare innovations are being used in health and social care. It considers the range of innovative approaches that have been developed, giving some practical examples. We identify some of the key challenges to the adoption of technology-based approaches to care, and suggest some strategies to overcome these...

During the past several decades, we have seen organizations in many industries transform work processes and the role of the production worker through the introduction of high performance work systems (HPWS). The HPWS experience in the paper industry has been varied and there are many questions about the appropriate approach to these innovations. In this paper, we will describe a framework for u...

Technological innovations currently alter the traditional value chain in securities trading. Investment companies that used to buy trading services from their brokers are now enabled by technology to emulate core competencies of their brokers themselves. To investigate the adoption decision regarding one of those new technologies – Algorithmic Trading – a survey among the top European buy-side ...

This paper explores the complex interaction which occurs when human society converges with novel pervasive information and communication technologies – and aims to stimulate thinking and the development of a comprehensive research agenda. The focal point of interest is user adoption of ICT, and some of the main determinants and moderators of the context in which the individual consumer decides ...

The speed of genomic discovery has left little time for health professionals to acquire an understanding of the implications for practice. We examine the factors influencing receptivity to genomic education and adoption of the genetics-informed optimal family history (OFH) among US family physicians (FPs). We test a model based on Rogers’ theory of innovation diffusion using data from a sample ...

The Effective Dental Practice Program One approach is to develop a program of research specifically dedicated to investigating the translation of knowledge into evidence– based dental practice within primary dental care services as well as dental education. The Effective Dental Practice (EDP) Program now includes a range of such studies funded by the Medical Research Council, the Chief Scientis...

This paper extends the literature on technology adoption by introducing a distinction between technological breakthroughs (‘innovations’) and the engineering re/nements (‘improvements’) that follow such a breakthrough. Firms do not necessarily wait for a future technological breakthrough, but instead have an incentive to delay the adoption of a new technology until it is su2ciently advanced. We...

A wealth of evidence exists about the adoption of new practices and technologies in agriculture but there does not appear to have been any attempt to simplify this vast body of research knowledge into a model to make quantitative predictions across a broad range of contexts. This is despite increasing demand from research, development and extension agencies for estimates of likely extent of ado...

Within the securities trading industry recent technological innovations enable Institutional Investors to self-directed trading and thus lead to a reassessment of their intermediation relationships. This may yield to an in-sourcing of trading activities by buy-side organization. Scientific literature outlines advantages and disadvantages of some of them but no empirical investigations are repor...