Factors other than antimicrobial activity of soaps and antiseptic agents used for hand hygiene by health personnel play a role in compliance with recommendations. Hand hygiene products differ considerably in acceptance by hospital personnel. If switching from a nonmedicated soap to an antiseptic agent or increased use of an existing antiseptic agent for hand hygiene prevented a few more infecti...

i This issue of IJHISI delivers a set of articles that further expand the breadth and depth of our understanding of key issues in health information systems and informatics. As with authors of papers appearing in previous issues, the assembled contributors also use a range of research methodologies, from conceptual model-ing and framework development to survey-based statistical analyses. In the...

The proliferation of information technology (IT) in supporting highly specialized tasks and services has made it increasingly important to understand the factors essential to technology acceptance by individuals. In a typical professional setting, the essential characteristics of user, technology, and context may differ considerably from those in ordinary business settings. This study examined ...

Despite the recognition that information system acceptance is an important antecedent of effective emergency management, there has been comparatively very little research examining this aspect of technology acceptance. The current research responded to this gap in literature by adapting and integrating existing models of technology acceptance. This was done in order to examine how a range of te...

The use of new information technology impacts individual work as well as the whole organization. This paper illuminates some preliminary findings from an ongoing study about impacts of the new educational technology in educational organization and individual work. The main question answered in this article is why has information technology being taken into use in certain higher education cases ...

The user acceptance of prepayment metering systems, an innovative Information Technology based application, is examined with the help of a structural equation model in the two different cultures of India and the United States. The intention to use prepayment metering systems is measured along three dimensions: performance expectancy, effort expectance, and social influence. The same measures of...

OBJECTIVE User acceptance of information technology has been a significant area of research for more than two decades in the field of information technology. This study assessed the acceptance of information technology in the context of Health Information Management (HIM) by utilizing Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) which was modified and applied to assess user acceptance of health informatio...

Objectives: To summarize current outstanding research in the field of health information systems (HIS). Method: Synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2007. Results: Five articles from three international peer reviewed journals were selected for the HIS section of the IMIA Yearbook 2007. They represent outstanding research on new user interfaces for mobile data entry, smart car...

The proliferation of mobile information systems are challenging IS researchers to re-examine some of the temporospatial assumptions embedded in established IS theories. While adoption and use of information systems has a substantial body of knowledge does not seem to have captured some of the temporospatial specificities of mobile technologies such as system portability. The purpose of this pap...