An organizational culture-based theory of clinical information systems implementation in hospitals

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 123-162

  Rivard, Suzanne ^a   Lapointe, Liette ^b   Kappos, Antonio ^a  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical information system implementation; Implementation difficulty; Implementation outcomes; Organizational culture; Theory development

Indexed keywords

HOSPITALS; INFORMATION USE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; IMPLEMENTATION DIFFICULTIES; IMPLEMENTATION OUTCOMES; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES; THEORY DEVELOPMENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 79952916295     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00258     Document Type: Article

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