The effects of culture of adoption of telemedicine in medically underserved communities

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Nwabueze, Stacie N ^a   Meso, Peter N ^b   Mbarika, Victor W ^a   Kifle, Mengistu ^a   Okoli, Chitu ^c   Chustz, Mark ^a  

^a SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c John Molson School of Business   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED ECONOMIES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ADOPTIONS; INTERACTION EFFECTS; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; TELEMEDICINE TECHNOLOGIES; TRANSFER OF INFORMATIONS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TELEMEDICINE;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 63349089265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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