title: Operational and customer relationship management considerations of electronic prescribing among pharmacists.
abstract: Technology in healthcare environments has increasingly become a vital way to communicate vital information in a safe, reliable, precise and secure manner. Healthcare is an arena that is constantly changing and very fast paced, but adoption of electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) has been comparatively slow and painful in the USA. Medical professionals need a system to communicate medications and diagnosis, with patients' safety as the major consideration, especially with the many complexities associated with drug-interactions and allergies. Via multivariate analysis and linear regression analysis, it was found that degree of e-prescribing acceptance is highly predictable by constructs of Technological Sophistication, Operational Factors and Maturity Factors, which are very stable ease-of-use variables derived from the TAM Model by Davis (1989).
authors.affiliation: Department of Management, Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA 15219-3099, USA.
authors.forename: Alan D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Darlene
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Motley
mesh_terms: D004347:Drug Interactions; D055695:Electronic Prescribing; D006801:Humans; D010595:Pharmacists