Investigating enterprise application integration benefits and barriers in healthcare organisations: An exploratory case study

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 66-78

  Khoumbati, Khalil ^a   Themistocleous, Marinos ^a   Irani, Zahir ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adoption; Benefits and barriers; Case study; Enterprise application integration; Healthcare organisations

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH LEVEL 7; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY; REVIEW; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 33645123944     PISSN: 17418453     EISSN: 17418461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEH.2006.008697     Document Type: Review

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