Physician acceptance of information technologies: Role of perceived threat to professional autonomy

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 206-215

  Walter, Zhiping ^a   Lopez, Melissa Succi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical decision support systems; Electronic medical records; Knowledge codification; Professional autonomy; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CURVE FITTING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISKS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS; KNOWLEDGE CODIFICATION; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 56049124572     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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