Drivers and inhibitors of the adoption of wireless handheld technology in the healthcare industry: views from selected WA stakeholders

Quaddus, Mohammed and Fink, Dieter and Gururajan, Raj and Vuori, Timo (2005) Drivers and inhibitors of the adoption of wireless handheld technology in the healthcare industry: views from selected WA stakeholders. In: Health Informatics Conference 2005: Improving Healthcare Through Informatics (HIC 2005), 31 Jul - 02 Aug 2005, Melbourne, Australia.

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Abstract

The use of wireless hand held devices is becoming popular in healthcare applications for flexibility and mobility. While the concept is attractive, difficulties encountered by health professionals included the small size of the device, problems in fitting current data collection forms into one screen of a handheld device and data entry using the 'grafiti' option. It appears that prior studies, while highlighting the importance of wireless applications in healthcare, failed to ascertain factors that determine the adoption of these applications in healthcare. This study conducted a focus group interview to ascertain the factors of adoption (and barriers) of wireless applications in order to enhace heathcare data management. Preliminary findings of this focus group interviews are presented here.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Commonwealth Reporting Category E) (Paper)
Additional Information:	Deposited with permission of publisher.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	wireless technology, mobile technology, mobile devices, healthcare, health care, information systems, IS
Fields of Research (FOR2008):	15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services > 1503 Business and Management > 150307 Innovation and Technology Management 11 Medical and Health Sciences > 1117 Public Health and Health Services > 111709 Health Care Administration 10 Technology > 1005 Communications Technologies > 100510 Wireless Communications
Subjects:	320000 Medical and Health Sciences > 321200 Public Health and Health Services > 321215 Health Care Administration 290000 Engineering and Technology > 291700 Communications Technologies > 291799 Communications Technologies not elsewhere classified 350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services > 350200 Business and Management > 350211 Innovation and Technology Management
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO2008):	UNSPECIFIED
ID Code:	204
Deposited By:	epEditor USQ
Deposited On:	11 Oct 2007 10:17
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2012 14:49

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