Toward an effective strategy for the diffusion and use of clinical information systems.
The full impact of IT in health care has not been realized because of the failure to recognize that (1) the path from availability of applications to the anticipated benefits passes through a series of steps; and (2) progress can be stopped at any one of those steps. As a result, strategies for diffusion, adoption, and use have been incomplete and have produced disappointing results. In this paper, we present a comprehensive framework for identifying factors that affect the spread, use, and effects of IT in the U.S. health care sector. The framework can be used by researchers to focus their efforts on unanswered questions, by practitioners considering IT adoption, and by policymakers searching for ways to spread IT throughout the system.
Davidson
Stephen M
SM
Boston University School of Management, Boston, MA 02215, USA. sdavidso@bu.edu
Heineke
Janelle
J
D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States