Organizational decision to adopt hospital information system: An empirical investigation in the case of Malaysian public hospitals

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 166-188

  Ahmadi, Hossein ^a   Nilashi, Mehrbakhsh ^a   Ibrahim, Othman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Adoption; Hospital information system; Human technology organization environment; Multi criteria decision making; Organizational decision; Public hospital

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

ADOPTION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION; TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATION ENVIRONMENTS;

HOSPITALS;

ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DRUG PRESCRIPTION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE; EMPIRICISM; HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MALAYSIA; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MICROCOMPUTER; MOBILE NURSING INFORMATION SYSTEM; MOBILE NURSING TECHNOLOGY; MULTICRITERIA DECISION MAKING; NURSING INFORMATION SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATION ENVIRONMENT FRAMEWORK; TELEHEALTH; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMONITORING; VITAL SIGN; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MASS COMMUNICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HEALTH POLICY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84921903525     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2014.12.004     Document Type: Article

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