Hospital information systems in Arab Gulf countries: Characteristics of adopters
✍ Scribed by Haifa M. Nabali
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 876 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0378-7206
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✦ Synopsis
138 managers from a representative sample consisting of 24 hospitals in five countries of the Arab Gulf were asked to report on the presence and adoption of Computer-Based
Information Systems (CBIS) in their hospitals. Two groups of variables were studied to assess their ability to discriminate between users and non-users of CBIS: manager characteristics and hospital organizational (contextual and structural) characteristics.
The findings reveal that: hospitals owned by Ministries of Health are lower adopters of CBIS; that managers of departments that use CBIS have more favorable attitudes towards user involvement; that departments in smaller hospitals are more likely to use CBIS; and that managers of user departments tend to be older.