How do integrated delivery systems adopt and implement clinical information systems?

Bryan J Weiner; Lucy A Savitz; Shulamit Bernard; Linda Gearhart Pucci

doi:10.1097/00004010-200401000-00007

How do integrated delivery systems adopt and implement clinical information systems?

Health Care Manage Rev. 2004 Jan-Mar;29(1):51-66. doi: 10.1097/00004010-200401000-00007.

Authors

Bryan J Weiner¹, Lucy A Savitz, Shulamit Bernard, Linda Gearhart Pucci

Affiliation

¹ Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. bryan_weiner@unc.edu

PMID: 14992484
DOI: 10.1097/00004010-200401000-00007

Abstract

We examined how five integrated delivery systems make decisions about and implement clinical information systems. Using case study methods, we identified general themes and explored how organizational context factors and information technology characteristics affect adoption and implementation processes.

MeSH terms

Administrative Personnel
Attitude of Health Personnel
Decision Making, Organizational*
Decision Support Systems, Clinical / statistics & numerical data*
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / organization & administration*
Diffusion of Innovation*
Humans
Leadership
Models, Organizational
Operations Research
Organizational Case Studies
Organizational Culture
United States