A theory of rural telehealth innovation- A paradoxical approach

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Singh, Rajendra ^a   Mathiassen, Lars ^a   Mishra, Abhay Nath ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

IT adoption; Paradoxical thinking; Process theory; Qualitative study; Rural healthcare; Telehealth

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

IT ADOPTION; PARADOXICAL THINKING; PROCESS THEORY; QUALITATIVE STUDY; TELEHEALTH;

EHEALTH;

EID: 85069300906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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