TY - GEN
T1 - Individual infusion of m-health technologies
T2 - 20th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2012
AU - O'Connor, Yvonne
AU - O'Raghailligh, P. J.
AU - O'Donoghue, John
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Despite substantial research on IT implementation in the IS field, the healthcare industry has historically been considered a technological laggard and lacks direction on how to successfully infuse new technological innovations within individuals work practices. Theoretically, mobile-health (mhealth) technologies, if infused in work practices can potentially enhance the quality of healthcare delivery. The question remains as to whether practitioners' performance significantly improves and individual knowledge is enhanced through the infusion of these technologies. While a significant amount of extant literature focuses on initial technology adoption and acceptance, there remains a dearth of literature in the IS field focusing on the long term utilisation and associated benefits. This paper addresses this gap in extant literature through the development and testing of a conceptual model, exploring determinants of individual infusion of m-health technologies and their subsequent outcomes. This study reveals (a) key enablers of successful mobile infusion in a healthcare context and that successful infusion is determined by the characteristics of the: 1. technology 2. user and 3. task, (b) Infusion of mobile technologies leads to improvements in preventative care, greater decision making and reduced medical errors and, (c) Individuals perceive that knowledge is presented rather than created through mobile technologies.
AB - Despite substantial research on IT implementation in the IS field, the healthcare industry has historically been considered a technological laggard and lacks direction on how to successfully infuse new technological innovations within individuals work practices. Theoretically, mobile-health (mhealth) technologies, if infused in work practices can potentially enhance the quality of healthcare delivery. The question remains as to whether practitioners' performance significantly improves and individual knowledge is enhanced through the infusion of these technologies. While a significant amount of extant literature focuses on initial technology adoption and acceptance, there remains a dearth of literature in the IS field focusing on the long term utilisation and associated benefits. This paper addresses this gap in extant literature through the development and testing of a conceptual model, exploring determinants of individual infusion of m-health technologies and their subsequent outcomes. This study reveals (a) key enablers of successful mobile infusion in a healthcare context and that successful infusion is determined by the characteristics of the: 1. technology 2. user and 3. task, (b) Infusion of mobile technologies leads to improvements in preventative care, greater decision making and reduced medical errors and, (c) Individuals perceive that knowledge is presented rather than created through mobile technologies.
KW - Individual performance
KW - Infusion
KW - Knowledge creation
KW - Mobile technology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84905728296&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84905728296
SN - 9788488971548
T3 - ECIS 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Information Systems
BT - ECIS 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Information Systems
PB - Association for Information Systems
Y2 - 10 June 2012 through 13 June 2012
ER -