A theory of organization-EHR affordance actualization

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 53-85

  Strong, Diane M ^a   Volkoff, Olga ^b   Johnson, Sharon A ^a   Pelletier, Lori R ^c   Tulu, Bengisu ^a   Bar On, Isa ^a   Trudel, John ^d   Garber, Lawrence ^d  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UMASS/Memorial Healthcare   (United States)

^d Reliant Medical Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Actualization; Affordance; EHR; Electronic health records; Grounded theory; Healthcare; IT associated organizational change

Indexed keywords

GROUP THEORY; RECORDS MANAGEMENT;

ACTUALIZATION; AFFORDANCES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTHCARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY-ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84894591926     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00353     Document Type: Article

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