Revolution or evolution? An analysis of E-health innovation and impact using a hypercube model.
This study utilises a hypercube innovation model to analyse the changes in both healthcare informatics and medical related delivery models based on the innovations from Tele-healthcare, electronic healthcare (E-healthcare), to mobile healthcare (M-healthcare). Further, the critical impacts of these E-health innovations on the stakeholders: healthcare customers, hospitals, healthcare complementary providers and healthcare regulators are identified. Thereafter, the critical capabilities for adopting each innovation are discussed.
Department of Information Management and Institute of Healthcare Management, National Sun Yat-Sen University, 70 Lien-hai Rd, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan. jhwu@mis.nsysu.edu.tw
Jen-Her
JH
Wu
An-Sheng
AS
Huang
Tzyh-Lih
TL
Hisa
Hsien-Tang
HT
Tsai
D003199:Computer Systems; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006801:Humans; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D013624:Taiwan