Article ID: | iaor20091203 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 1 |
End Page Number: | 9 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2008 |
Journal: | Health Care Management Science |
Authors: | Bhattacherjee Anol, Hikmet Neset, Menachemi Nir, Kayhan Varol O., Brooks Robert G. |
Keywords: | computers: information, organization |
This study examines whether specific organizational characteristics, such as hospital size, geographic location (urban versus rural), system membership (stand-alone versus system-affiliated), and tax status (for-profit versus non-profit), influence adoption of health care information technologies (HIT) in hospitals. We hypothesize the above organizational characteristics to be related to hospitals' adoption of clinical, administrative, and strategic HIT, as well as all HIT in general. Using survey data collected from 98 Florida hospitals, we demonstrate that hospital size, system membership, and tax status, but not geographic location, are systematically related to HIT adoption, and that such factors explain about 28–41% of the adoption variance. A mixed pattern of effects emerges for clinical, administrative, and strategic HIT. For instance, hospital size appears to be less relevant for administrative HIT, where its effect is compensated by those of system membership and tax status. Implications for future HIT research and practice are discussed.