The acceptance of information technology innovations in hospitals: differences between early and late adopters

Tomás Escobar-Rodríguez and Mercedes Romero-Alonso

Behaviour and Information Technology, 2014, vol. 33, issue 11, 1231-1243

Abstract: The increasing maturity of information technologies (IT) in hospitals and their infrastructure development is improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare services. In these circumstances, an investigation of the diffusion of IT in this context would provide some insight into adopters’ behaviours and further the diffusion of IT in the near future. The purpose of this paper is to conduct an investigation of the diffusion of IT’s innovations in hospitals. Technology acceptance model and innovation diffusion theory have been applied in this research trying to find factors that permit an effective discrimination between early and late adopters. The differences in characteristics between these two categories are assessed and implications based on the research findings are discussed.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2013.810779

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