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Integration of hospital information systems (HIS) is an important area and one the basic requirements of hospitals since it increases quality of care and at the same time reduces costs of creating, upgrading, updating and keeping up with technology and healthcare industry standards and information technology. Cloud computing with features like multitenancy, massive scalability, elasticity, pay as...
Health information retrieval and YouTube can be used as powerful tools aimed to improve users' health knowledge. However, YouTube videos must be carefully analysed in order to avoid misleading health content, such as inaccurate health information, non-up-to-date treatments, false medical products promoted by for-profit organizations, and information not related to health. This paper presents an approach...
This paper investigates the adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems by US health providers with multiple theoretical perspectives. In particular, it argues that the fit between EHR systems and clinical activities interacts with social contagion from peer healthcare providers, which influences the valence to EHR systems of focal provider, and organizational valence finally impacts the adoption...
This study develops a questionnaire to measure nurses' perceptions of information quality for clinical decision making in hospital settings. The instrument is developed through a pretest, pilot test, and full survey process. A total of 214 questionnaires were received from chief nursing officers in the full survey process. Principal component analysis and Cronbach's alpha are used to confirm the validity...
Analysis of the composition of medical care service encounter quality, in order to find out specific measures. Effective scale is designed by using the interview questionnaires. Questionnaires were designed for investigation in outpatient clients of public hospital within Anhui. Finally the results are testified by reliability testing, validity testing and regression analysis from using the SPSS16...
There are abundant research arguments on market orientation, including measurement scales and the relationship between market orientation and business performance. However, most of these researches focus mainly on business organizations, while study in public hospitals is extremely limited. Basing on existing literatures about market orientation and business performance, the authors develop a framework...
As a result of the changing medical environment in Taiwan, hospitals encounter increasing competitive pressure. In response to an increasingly competitive environment, hospitals are devoted to improving the quality of service received by the patients. This study explored how learning organisation influences staff members' service quality. A cross-sectional study was performed. The survey sample included...
In this paper we describe the information, communication, and acceptance issues in a tele-medical workflow, taking a pre-hospital emergency medical service (EMS) as an example. EMS workflows are extremely time-critical, impose a high responsibility, and crucially depend on a close, well-trained cooperation between EMS personnel. Though increasingly information and communication technologies (ICT)...
We identified in-role and extra-role customer service and developed the scale for each based on Chinese retailing industry. Evidence suggested that both in-role and extra-role customer service were positively associated with customer satisfaction and loyalty. Opposite to our assumption, the in-role customer service had a stronger effect on customer satisfaction and loyalty than extra-role service...
The main purpose of the study is to determine the effect of different leadership styles on staff work satisfaction, organizational commitment and work performance and establish a causality model among them. Main results of the study based on the empirical analysis are as following: 1. effect of leadership style on work satisfaction, organizational commitment and work performance: (1) work satisfaction...
This study presents an IT assessment tool that aims at capturing the level of IT sophistication in hospitals. In order to develop a measure that reflects IT capacities in hospitals, an IT scoring approach was proposed that incorporate eight IT dimensions related to the implementation of computerized processes and emerging technologies, and the level of internal and external systems integration. The...
This study provides highly practical valuable research work for helping academic and industrial world to understand the key competencies items of managers in Taiwan medical industries. It intends to take talented persons in Taiwan medical industries as research objects. It also probes into important and pivotal competencies items of managers in medical industries. This study conducts a research on...
Accelerated by the rapid deployment of distributed systems and the Internet, online collaboration and information sharing are pervasive in enterprise computing environment. With regard to the requirements of online collaboration and information sharing, authentication information needs flexible manipulation to facilitate federation across trust domains. To achieve identity federation for federated...
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