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Process-oriented application systems for mobile services: empirical analysis of healthcare professionals' intention

Authors:

Rüdiger Breitschwerdt,

Philipp Reinke,

Markus Kleine Sextro,

Oliver ThomasAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGHIT Record, Volume 2, Issue 2

Pages 22 - 30

https://doi.org/10.1145/2384556.2384559

Published: 01 September 2012 Publication History

Abstract

A growing number of rescue operations as well as people in need of care cause an increase in ambulant healthcare services. At the same time, the dedicated service providers have to cope with budgets and a decreasing number of qualified personnel. Nevertheless, a high quality of treatment is mandatory. This means a need for improvement enabling the service providers to keep their care processes competitive. Whereas in hospitals, evidence-based guidelines and care pathways have become usual or mandatory, efforts to establish them in ambulant domains are still at an early stage. In contrast to inpatient workflows, standards or best practices have not been established yet. The article analyzes the staffs' intention to use such IT-based support by means of empirical surveys among 444 participants from two fields of application. For this purpose, prospective users would employ applications installed on portable devices -- a potential hardly been considered yet for healthcare service support.

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Index Terms

Process-oriented application systems for mobile services: empirical analysis of healthcare professionals' intention
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
  2. Life and medical sciences
    1. Health care information systems
2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
    2. Web services

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Azhar FDhillon J(2016)A systematic review of factors influencing the effective use of mHealth apps for self-care2016 3rd International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)10.1109/ICCOINS.2016.7783213(191-196)Online publication date: Aug-2016
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