Interorganizational health care systems implementations: an exploratory study of early electronic commerce initiatives.
Changing business practices, customers needs, and market dynamics have driven many organizations to implement interorganizational systems (IOSs). IOSs have been successfully implemented in the banking, cotton, airline, and consumer-goods industries, and recently attention has turned to the health care industry. This article describes an exploratory study of health care IOS implementations based on the voluntary community health information network (CHIN) model.
Payton
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College of Management, Department of Business Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. fay_payton@ncsu.edu
Ginzberg
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