Technology has engendered some fundamental transformations in processes related to buying and selling goods. A compelling example of this transformation is online auctions, which have become increasingly popular platforms for conducting commerce. While online auctions have been researched...

We use a social contagion lens to study the dynamic, temporal process of the diffusion of electronic medical records in the population of U.S. hospitals. Social contagion acknowledges the mutual influence among organizations within an institutional field and implicates information transmission...

Information intensive industries, such as health care, rely extensively on the ability to store, process, analyze, and use data. Although other information intensive industries have adopted information technology aggressively and reaped the benefits that result from usage, the health care...

Within the emerging context of the digitization of health care, electronic health records (EHRs) constitute a significant technological advance in the way medical information is stored, communicated, and processed by the multiple parties involved in health care delivery. However, in spite of the...

The lack of timely and relevant patient information has been frequently linked to adverse treatment outcomes; hence the effective management of patient information has emerged as a strategic imperative for the healthcare industry. Healthcare informatics experts have suggested that electronic...

Although quality information has been collected by governmental and private agencies for over three decades, public access to this information has typically been cumbersome. Recently, an initiative was launched in California in which hospitals can volunteer to provide a series of quality...

Electronic medical record systems (EMRs) could alleviate many problems confronting the health care industry. However, due to their inherent complexity and the difficulties in gaining commitment to their adoption by numerous stakeholders, adoption by hospitals has been slow. In this paper we use...