Enabling electronic medicine at Kiwicare : the case of video conferencing adoption for psychiatry in New Zealand

Enabling electronic medicine at Kiwicare : the case of video conferencing adoption for psychiatry in New Zealand

Al-Qirim, Nabeel 2002, Enabling electronic medicine at Kiwicare : the case of video conferencing adoption for psychiatry in New Zealand, in Cases on global IT applications and management: successes and pitfalls, Idea Group, Hershey, Pa., pp.185-202.

Title	Enabling electronic medicine at Kiwicare : the case of video conferencing adoption for psychiatry in New Zealand
Author(s)	Al-Qirim, Nabeel
Title of book	Cases on global IT applications and management: successes and pitfalls
Editor(s)	Tan, Felix B.
Publication date	2002
Chapter number	10
Total chapters	14
Start page	185
End page	202
Total pages	18
Publisher	Idea Group
Place of Publication	Hershey, Pa.
Keyword(s)	bandwidth health help desk hospital information systems information technology innovation IS projects IT projects medical medicine misdiagnosis psychiatry technology adoption technology innovation technology risks telemedicin telemedicine
Summary	Telemedicine emerges as a viable solution to New Zealand health providers in reaching out to rural patients, in offering medical services and conducting administrative meetings and training. No research exists about adoption of telemedicine in New Zealand. The purpose of this case study was to explain factors influencing adoption of telemedicine utilizing video conferencing technology (TMVC) within a New Zealand hospital known as KiwiCare. Since TMVC is part of IT, tackling it from within technological innovation literature may assist in providing an insight into its adoption within KiwiCare and into the literature. Findings indicate weak presence of critical assessment into technological innovation factors prior to the adoption decision, thereby leading to its weak utilization. Factors like complexity, compatibility and trialability were not assessed extensively by KiwiCare and would have hindered TMVC adoption. TMVC was mainly assessed according to its relative advantage and to its cost effectiveness along with other facilitating and accelerating factors. This is essential but should be alongside technological and other influencing factors highlighted in the literature.
ISBN	1930708165 9781930708167
Language	eng
Field of Research	080699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
HERDC Research category	B1 Book chapter
ERA Research output type	B Book chapter
Copyright notice	©2002, Idea Group Publishing
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30000548

Document type:	Book Chapter
Collection:	School of Information and Business Analytics

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