Factors Affecting the Sustainability of Computer Information Systems: Embedding New Information Technology into a Hospital Environment

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Author(s): Donald C. McDermid (Edith Cowan University, Australia), Linda J. Kristjanson (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)and Nigel Spry (Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Australia)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 15
Source title: Advancing Technologies and Intelligence in Healthcare and Clinical Environments Breakthroughs
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Joseph Tan (McMaster University, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1755-1.ch004

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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This study explores the issues and barriers to developing a sustainable system for the collection of quality of life data in hospitals. A set of sustainability factors was identified and tested in a study that introduced tablet computers to collect questionnaires from cancer patients. These factors are considered a good starting point for practitioners and researchers to use in other IT contexts if they wish to develop sustainable information systems.

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