Adoption of technology applications in healthcare: The influence of attitude toward knowledge sharing on technology acceptance in a hospital

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 264 CCIS, Issue , 2011, Pages 17-30

  Esmaeilzadeh, Pouyan ^a   Sambasivan, Murali ^a   Kumar, Naresh ^a   Nezakhati, Hossein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Attitude toward knowledge sharing; Clinical IT; Healthcare professionals' involvement in decision making; Perceived ease of use; Perceived threat to professional autonomy; Perceived usefulness; TAM

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL IT; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; PERCEIVED THREAT TO PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; TAM;

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISKS; HOSPITALS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 83755173541     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-27210-3_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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