Assimilating healthcare information systems in a Malaysian hospital

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1291-1318

  Sulaiman, Hidayah ^a   Wickramasinghe, Nilmini ^b  

^a Universiti Tenaga Nasional   (Malaysia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adoption; Assimilation; Healthcare information systems; Initiation

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

ADOPTION; ASSIMILATION; HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTHCARE DELIVERY; HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (HIS); HEALTHCARE ORGANISATIONS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS/INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; INITIATION;

MEDICAL COMPUTING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84899789249     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.03477     Document Type: Article

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