Assimilating Healthcare Information Systems in a Malaysian Hospital

Abstract

The importance of information systems/information technology (IS/IT) to healthcare organisations is being recognised today as paramount and critical in order to realise superior healthcare delivery. Successful assimilation of IS/IT, which is the central focus of this study, then becomes a key consideration in ensuring that IS/IT is appropriately and systematically deployed into a healthcare organisation. The key findings from this research indicate that there are people, process, technology and environment elements that should be considered as facilitators to the healthcare information systems (HIS) assimilation process, as well as barriers that the healthcare organisation should overcome throughout the entire assimilation process or at specific stages. This research, therefore, is not only topical but especially beneficial to management and administrators in the web of healthcare players as they grapple with trying to successfully assimilate HIS into their respective organisations.

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“…Numerous researchers revealed that government regulations and support has a significant influence on adoption decision of IT innovation in developing countries [ 13 , 33 ]. In the same vein, some research on developing countries shows the empirical evidence that government regulations and polices positively effects the decision to adopt IT adoption in healthcare sector [ 16 , 28 , 32 , 47 , 49 ]. This discussion leads to the following hypotheses:…”

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