Clinical usefulness of handheld wireless technology in healthcare: a cross-national study of Australia and India
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Article Title | Clinical usefulness of handheld wireless technology in healthcare: a cross-national study of Australia and India |
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ERA Journal ID | 18044 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Gururajan, Raj (Author), Quaddus, Mohammed (Author) and Xu, Jun (Author) |
Journal Title | Journal of Systems and Information Technology |
Journal Citation | 10 (1), pp. 72-85 |
Number of Pages | 16 |
Year | 2008 |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 1328-7265 |
1758-8847 | |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jsessionid=81323CB3B77306FE21330DF53A8DA3DD?contentType=Article&hdAction=lnkpdf&contentId=1728400&history=true |
Abstract | [Abstract]: Handheld wireless technology is increasingly being used as a flexible tool for data management in health care sector. Greater awareness and cheaper wireless technology are some of the dominating factors for its increased use. In this paper we present a cross national study of the drivers and inhibitors of clinical usefulness of wireless technology in Australia and India. We have undertaken our study in these two countries because of their contrasting health care policies. In Australia the health care policies are governed by a combination of Government and private sectors. While in India the private sector plays the most dominant role. We used a ground up approach to develop the drivers and inhibitors of wireless technology usefulness instead of using or adapting any traditional technology adoption models. Qualitative field study was undertaken in both Australia and India that helped us in developing a simple but appropriate research model for both these countries. As our study is cross national we used optimal scaling procedure to standardize the data before applying partial least square (PLS) procedure for hypotheses testing. The result of our study was interesting. The PLS application to the raw data did not support any of the hypotheses. However after optimal scaling we got contrasting results via PLS application. The paper presents the implications of the results and suggests to use optimal scaling with PLS in cross national study. |
Keywords | healthcare management, technology usefulness, wireless technology, PLS model, optimal scaling |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 460608. Mobile computing |
420399. Health services and systems not elsewhere classified | |
400608. Wireless communication systems and technologies (incl. microwave and millimetrewave) | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Information Systems |
Curtin University of Technology | |
Southern Cross University |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9yvw0/clinical-usefulness-of-handheld-wireless-technology-in-healthcare-a-cross-national-study-of-australia-and-india
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