Title :
When Acceptance is not Enough - Taking TAM-Model into Healthcare
Author :
Raitoharju, Reetta
Author_Institution :
Turku School of Economics and Business Administration
Abstract :
Information technology is diversing in healthcare and with it raises the need to diverse the evaluation as well. Individual impacts are often neglected when evaluating IT at work. Healthcare is a stressful sector and besides the traditional stress, exposed to IT related stress due its structure and personnel. In this paper some general needs for re-evaluating of IT evaluation are addressed. Moreover a new perspectiv- IT related stress- is presented to broad the evaluation. The main purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical model based on widely used TAM-model to evaluate IT stress as a factor of IT acceptance.
Keywords :
Healthcare; IT evaluation; IT stress; TAM-model; Appropriate technology; Business; Computer science; Human factors; Information systems; Information technology; Investments; Medical services; Occupational stress; Personnel;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2005. HICSS '05. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2268-8
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2005.691