TY - GEN
T1 - Investigation of factors affecting healthcare organization's adoption of telemedicine technology
AU - Hu, Paul Jen Hwa
AU - Chau, Patrick Y.K.
AU - Liu Sheng, Olivia R.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Recent advances in information and biomedicine technology have significantly increased the technical feasibility, clinical viability and economic affordability of telemedicine-assisted service collaboration and delivery. Healthcare organizations around the world have become increasingly interested in incorporating this technology into existing services or extended patient markets. The ultimate success of telemedicine in an adopting organization requires the organization's proper addressing both technological and managerial challenges. Based on Tornatzky and Fleischer's framework, we developed and empirically evaluated a research model for healthcare organizations' adoption of telemedicine technology, using a survey study that involved public healthcare organizations in Hong Kong. Results of our exploratory study suggested that the research model exhibited reasonable significance and classification accuracy and that collective attitude of medical staff and perceived service risks were the two most significant factors in organizational adoption of telemedicine technology. Furthermore, several implications for telemedicine management emerged from our study and are discussed as well.
AB - Recent advances in information and biomedicine technology have significantly increased the technical feasibility, clinical viability and economic affordability of telemedicine-assisted service collaboration and delivery. Healthcare organizations around the world have become increasingly interested in incorporating this technology into existing services or extended patient markets. The ultimate success of telemedicine in an adopting organization requires the organization's proper addressing both technological and managerial challenges. Based on Tornatzky and Fleischer's framework, we developed and empirically evaluated a research model for healthcare organizations' adoption of telemedicine technology, using a survey study that involved public healthcare organizations in Hong Kong. Results of our exploratory study suggested that the research model exhibited reasonable significance and classification accuracy and that collective attitude of medical staff and perceived service risks were the two most significant factors in organizational adoption of telemedicine technology. Furthermore, several implications for telemedicine management emerged from our study and are discussed as well.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0033878108
SN - 0769504930
T3 - Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 120
BT - Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
PB - IEEE
T2 - The 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Siences (HICSS-33)
Y2 - 4 January 2000 through 7 January 2000
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