Authors:
Raja Manzar Abbas
1
;
Noel Carroll
2
and
Ita Richardson
3
Affiliations:
1
Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick and Ireland
;
2
Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway and Ireland
;
3
Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, HRI- Health Research Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick and Ireland
Keyword(s):
Healthcare Information System, Decision-making Theories, Adoption Theories.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cloud Computing
;
e-Health
;
Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
;
Health Information Systems
;
Platforms and Applications
Abstract:
Hospital Information System (HIS) is important in the healthcare industry as it supports a wide range of highly specialized health-care tasks, services and provide high-quality patient care. Adoption of HIS is one of the key decisions by hospital management, yet the function of hospital decision-makers within the area of new technology adoption, specifically the decision-making processes in the adoption of HIS remains unsupported. To investigate this phenomenon, this paper identifies HIS decision-making theories, their short-coming of adoption in healthcare organisations and decision-making facets that influence the adoption. These review will shed some light for future researchers to conceptualize, distinguish and comprehend the underlying HIS decision-making models and theories that may affect the future application of HIS adoption. A literature search was conducted to identify studies presenting HIS decision-making adoption theories/models in a healthcare environment. From synthes
is of 26 studies, we identified five major facets that provides a structure to organize and capture information on the decision-making and adoption of HIS. The themes presented here provide a starting point in understanding the decision-making adoption theories, their major facets and their short-coming in adopting HIS. This will facilitate our future research on decision-making framework for the adoption of HIS.
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