"Doctors do too little technology": A longitudinal field study of an electronic healthcare system implementation

Information Systems Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 523-546

  Venkatesh, Viswanath ^a   Zhang, Xiaojun ^b   Sykes, Tracy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Healthcare and IT; IT diffusion and adoption

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION USE; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS; IT DIFFUSION; LONGITUDINAL FIELD STUDY; NOMOLOGICAL NETWORKS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 84865090669     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1110.0383     Document Type: Article

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