E-Health Systems Diffusion and Use: The Innovation, the User and the Useit Model

E-Health Systems Diffusion and Use: The Innovation, the User and the UseIT Model offers an overview of the use and diffusion of information systems in the health care sector with particular attention to the role of the user. This book starts with classic contributions and modifications and then continues with contemporary contributions, which include both qualitative and quantitative approaches This book combines various approaches to understand the diffusion and use of IS in health care, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches offering "the best of both worlds". From a health care viewpoint, E-Health Systems Diffusion and Use: The Innovation, the User and the UseIT Model serves as a guide to better innovation through information technology, bringing a leap forward in formal evaluation of information systems in health care.

Spil and Schuring, both affiliated with the University of Twente, The Netherlands, overview the use and diffusion of information systems in the health care sector, paying particular attention to the role of the user. Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, they examine both classic and contemporary contributions to the field, exploring areas such as physician use of online systems, introducing electronic patient records to hospitals, evaluation of health information systems, and a cross-cultural framework for evaluation. Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Ton A.M. Spil is assistant professor at the department of Technology & Management at the University of Twente. He is teaching in the area of Business Information Systems, mainly in project based education. In 1988 he finished his masterps in Computer Science and started his own company consulting big firms on strategic information systems planning. In 1996 he finished his PhD thesis on the effectiveness of these plans and after that he specialized in the application area healthcare and professional organizations. In 2000 he was project manager on a big e-health research project and chaired a track on HICSS 33.

Dr. Ir. R.W.Schuring is Associate Professor of Management of Health Care Organizations at the University of Twente in Enschede (The Netherlands). His research focuses on the effective organization of operational processes in healthcare. The role of the user in the diffusion of new technologies has particular interest. He cooperates with leading hospitals in The Netherlands and abroad.