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Investigating the roots of successful IT adoption processes : an empirical study exploring the shared awareness-knowledge of Directors of Nursing and Chief Information Officers

  • Background: The majority of health IT adoption research focuses on the later stages of the IT adoption process: namely on the implementation phase. The first stage, however, which is defined as the knowledge-stage, remains widely unobserved. Following Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation Theory (DOI) this paper presents a research framework to examine the possible lack of shared IT awareness-knowledge, i.e. an information gradient, of two crucial stakeholders, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Director of Nursing (DoN). This study shall answer the following research questions: (1.) Does this gradient exist? (2.) Which direction does it have? (3.) Are certain health IT (HIT) attributes associated with a potential gradient? (4.) Which determinants of diffusion go along with this gradient? Method: Results of two surveys that focused on the topic “IT support of clinical workflows” from the viewpoint of CIOs and DoNs with corresponding datasets from 75 hospitals were used in a secondary data analysis. The gradient was operationalised by measuring the disagreement of CIOs and DoNs on the availability and implementation status of 29 IT functions. HIT attributes tested were relevance and market penetration of the IT functions, determinants of diffusion were inter-professional leadership and IT service density. Results: The analysis revealed a significant disagreement on the availability of 9 out of 29 HIT functions. In 23 HIT functions, the CIOs reported a higher implementation status than the DoNs, which pointed to a trend for a unidirectional gradient. The disagreement was significantly lower when the relevance of the IT function was high. Both determinants of diffusion correlated significantly negative with the degree of disagreement. Conclusion: This is the first study to empirically examine shared awareness-knowledge of two IT-stakeholders that are crucial for triggering IT adoption on the frontline level in hospitals. It could be shown that a gradient and thus a lack of shared awareness-knowledge existed and was associated with certain factors. In conclusion, hospitals should implement improved cooperation between IT staff and clinicians and IT service density when establishing the prerequisites for successful IT adoption processes.

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Author:Jan-David LiebeORCiD, Jens HüsersORCiD, Ursula Hertha HübnerORCiD
Title (English):Investigating the roots of successful IT adoption processes : an empirical study exploring the shared awareness-knowledge of Directors of Nursing and Chief Information Officers
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:959-opus-20074
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-016-0244-0
ISSN:1472-6947
Parent Title (English):BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2016
Release Date:2021/05/20
Volume:16
Page Number:13
Faculties:Fakultät WiSo
DDC classes:600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 610 Medizin, Gesundheit
Review Status:Veröffentlichte Fassung/Verlagsversion
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International