Reactions and perceptions of healthcare professional towards wireless devices in healthcare environment in the developing world: A case of Pakistan

ACIS 2007 Proceedings - 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 508-514

  Gururajan, Raj ^a   Hafeez Baig, Abdul ^a   Kerr, Don ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

User perceptions; Wireless technology

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PERFORMANCE; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS; HIGH QUALITY INFORMATION; MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS; PAKISTAN; TECHNICAL SUPPORT; USE OF WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY; USER PERCEPTIONS; WIRELESS DEVICES; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FELT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84869125820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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