PMID- 25612792
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150917
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 1872-8243 (Electronic)
IS  - 1386-5056 (Linking)
VI  - 84
IP  - 3
DP  - 2015 Mar
TI  - Organizational decision to adopt hospital information system: an empirical 
      investigation in the case of Malaysian public hospitals.
PG  - 166-88
LID - S1386-5056(14)00249-4 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2014.12.004 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVES: This study mainly integrates the mature 
      Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework and recently developed 
      Human-Organization-Technology (HOT) fit model to identify factors that affect the 
      hospital decision in adopting Hospital Information System (HIS). METHODS: 
      Accordingly, a hybrid Multi-Criteria-Decision-Making (MCDM) model is used to 
      address the dependence relationships of factors with the aid of Analytic Network 
      Processes (ANP) and Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) 
      approaches. The initial model of the study is designed by considering four main 
      dimensions with 13 variables as organizational innovation adoption factors with 
      respect to HIS. By using DEMATEL, the interdependencies strength among the 
      dimensions and variables are tested. The ANP method is then adopted in order to 
      determine the relative importance of the adoption factors, and is used to 
      identify how these factors are weighted and prioritized by the public hospital 
      professionals, who are wholly familiar with the HIS and have years of experience 
      in decision making in hospitals' Information System (IS) department. RESULTS: The 
      results of this study indicate that from the experts' viewpoint "Perceived 
      Technical Competence" is the most important factor in the Human dimension. In the 
      Technology dimension, the experts agree that the "Relative Advantage" is more 
      important in relation to the other factors. In the Organization dimension, 
      "Hospital Size" is considered more important rather than others. And, in the 
      Environment dimension, according to the experts judgment, "Government Policy" is 
      the most important factor. The results of ANP survey from experts also reveal 
      that the experts in the HIS field believed that these factors should not be 
      overlooked by managers of hospitals and the adoption of HIS is more related to 
      more consideration of these factors. In addition, from the results, it is found 
      that the experts are more concerned about Environment and Technology for the 
      adoption HIS. CONCLUSIONS: The findings of this study make a novel contribution 
      in the context of healthcare industry that is to improve the decision process of 
      innovation in adoption stage and to help enhance more the diffusion of IS in the 
      hospital setting, which by doing so, can provide plenty of profits to the patient 
      community and the hospitals.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Ahmadi, Hossein
AU  - Ahmadi H
AD  - Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, 
      Malaysia.
FAU - Nilashi, Mehrbakhsh
AU  - Nilashi M
AD  - Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, 
      Malaysia. Electronic address: nilashidotnet@hotmail.com.
FAU - Ibrahim, Othman
AU  - Ibrahim O
AD  - Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, 
      Malaysia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20150103
PL  - Ireland
TA  - Int J Med Inform
JT  - International journal of medical informatics
JID - 9711057
SB  - IM
MH  - *Decision Making, Organizational
MH  - Diffusion of Innovation
MH  - Health Policy
MH  - *Hospital Information Systems
MH  - Hospitals, Public
MH  - Humans
MH  - Malaysia
MH  - *Organizational Innovation
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Adoption
OT  - Hospital information system
OT  - Human-Technology-Organization-Environment
OT  - Multi-Criteria Decision Making
OT  - Organizational decision
OT  - Public hospital
EDAT- 2015/01/24 06:00
MHDA- 2015/09/18 06:00
CRDT- 2015/01/24 06:00
PHST- 2014/10/01 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/12/11 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2014/12/26 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/01/24 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/01/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/09/18 06:00 [medline]
AID - S1386-5056(14)00249-4 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2014.12.004 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Med Inform. 2015 Mar;84(3):166-88. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2014.12.004. 
      Epub 2015 Jan 3.