TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigating technology implementation in a neurosurgical teleconsultation program
T2 - A case study in Hong Kong
AU - Jen-Hwa Hu, Paul
AU - Chau, Patrick Y.K.
AU - Chan, Y. K.
AU - Kowk, John C.K.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Developments of telemedicine have proliferated in recent years. While healthcare organizations and individual professionals have become increasingly interested in and knowledgeable about telemedicine, its ultimate success as a viable alternative service delivery or collaboration mode requires adequate addressing of crucial issues pertaining to technological and organizational concerns. The current study examined the technology implementation that has taken place in a Hong Kong-based neurosurgical teleconsultation program. Using a fairly comprehensive stage-model framework, the study analyzed the major organizational and social change activities experienced or undertaken by the host clinical department, together with key factors and their principal stakeholders. Findings of the study suggest several implications for telemedicine management and research and are discussed as well.
AB - Developments of telemedicine have proliferated in recent years. While healthcare organizations and individual professionals have become increasingly interested in and knowledgeable about telemedicine, its ultimate success as a viable alternative service delivery or collaboration mode requires adequate addressing of crucial issues pertaining to technological and organizational concerns. The current study examined the technology implementation that has taken place in a Hong Kong-based neurosurgical teleconsultation program. Using a fairly comprehensive stage-model framework, the study analyzed the major organizational and social change activities experienced or undertaken by the host clinical department, together with key factors and their principal stakeholders. Findings of the study suggest several implications for telemedicine management and research and are discussed as well.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2001.926565
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2001.926565
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85013573306
SP - 145
JO - Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
JF - Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SN - 1060-3425
M1 - 263
ER -