Achieving E-Health Success: The Key Role for ANT

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Author(s): Nilmini Wickramasinghe (Epworth Healthcare, Australia & RMIT University, Australia)and Arthur Tatnall (Victoria University, Australia)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 13
Source title: Technological Advancements and the Impact of Actor-Network Theory
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Arthur Tatnall (Victoria University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6126-4.ch012

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Healthcare delivery continues to be challenged in all OECD countries. To address these challenges, most are turning their attention to e-health as the panacea. Indeed, it is true that in today's global and networked world, e-health should be the answer for ensuring pertinent information, relevant data, and germane knowledge anywhere anytime so that clinicians can deliver superior healthcare. Sadly, healthcare has yet to realize the full potential of e-health, which is in stark contrast to other e-business initiatives such as e-government and e-education, e-finance, or e-commerce. This chapter asserts that it is only by embracing a rich theoretical lens of analysis that the full potential of e-health can be harnessed, and thus, it proffers Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as such a lens.

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