Adoption of innovative eHealth services in prehospital emergency management: a case study

Author

Tsiknakis, Manolis ; Spanakis, Manolis

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci., Found. for Res. & Technol.-Hellas, Heraklion, Greece

fYear

2010

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper briefly presents the architectural considerations, and details of the technical implementation of an integrated prehospital health emergency management system. Subsequently, the paper focuses on a critical review of the experiences gained through the deployment and use of the system with the objective of analyzing the factors influencing IT adoption in healthcare. In doing so, the “Fit between Individuals, Task and Technology” (FITT) framework has been adopted and used in the retrospective analysis of our case study in an attempt to better analyze the socio-organizational-technical factors that influence IT adoption.

Keywords

emergency services; health care; hospitals; medical information systems; technology management; telemedicine; FITT framework; IT adoption; innovative eHealth services; integrated prehospital health emergency management system; prehospital emergency management; socio-organizational-technical factors; Monitoring; Training; FITT framework; Prehospital emergency care; real time telemedicine; technology adoption;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB), 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Corfu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6559-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687752

Filename

5687752