Paper versus electronic medical records: The effects of access on physicians' decisions to use complex information technologies

Decision Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 213-241

  Ilie, Virginia ^a   Van Slyke, Craig ^b   Parikh, Mihir A ^c   Courtney, James F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

And TAM; Electronic Medical Records; Health Care IT Adoption; IT Accessibility; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 65949120210     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2009.00227.x     Document Type: Article

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