Exploratory study to understand the phenomena of adoption of wireless handheld devices in the Australian healthcare system

Journal of Systems and Information Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-56

  Hafeez Baig, Abdul ^a   Gururajan, Raj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Communication technologies; Health services; Information systems; Wireless

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992933369     PISSN: 13287265     EISSN: 17588847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13287260910932403     Document Type: Article

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