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It Adoption in the Public Healthcare Sector: an Institutional Research Agenda
Abstract
The study of IT adoption is a recurrent topic in IS research. In the healthcare sector and hospitals, the adoption of IT is predominantly justified by the desi re to prevent medical errors and increase patients’ safety (Menachemi et al., 2007). Ho wever, researchers such as Mc Kee and Healy (2002) have observed that hospital reorganisations have re ceived far less attention from researchers in Europe than is the case in the United-States. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to develop a research agenda focused on IT adoption in European healthcare organisations and to bring the new insights that can be gained from a more sociological, institutional view of the adoption process.
Keywords
IT adoption
healthcare sector
institutional theory.
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This research received academic dissemination support through ESCAP / JournalsHub publishing programs.
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The authors declare no competing financial or institutional interests.
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Double-blind peer reviewed by international subject specialists.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
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Ireland, et al. (2012). It Adoption in the Public Healthcare Sector: an Institutional Research Agenda. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2012_v7i2_09
Ireland, et al. "It Adoption in the Public Healthcare Sector: an Institutional Research Agenda." IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, vol. 7, no. 2, 2012. https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2012_v7i2_09
Ireland, et al. "It Adoption in the Public Healthcare Sector: an Institutional Research Agenda." IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems 7, no. 2 (2012). https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2012_v7i2_09