Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Engineering
Identify The Best Alternatives To Help The Diffusion Of Teleconsultation By Using The Hierarchical Decision Model (Hdm), Hamad A. Alanazi, Tugrul Unsal Daim, Dundar F. Kocaoglu
Identify The Best Alternatives To Help The Diffusion Of Teleconsultation By Using The Hierarchical Decision Model (Hdm), Hamad A. Alanazi, Tugrul Unsal Daim, Dundar F. Kocaoglu
Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations
Healthcare is a very important issue in the U.S. and in the entire world and the total healthcare spending in the United States has increased over the years and by the end of 2021 it will reach up to 20% of the U.S. GDP. The increase of health expenditure, a growing U.S. population, and a projected physician shortage are the top three trends in healthcare industry. The literature highlights that researchers from different fields and with several interests recognize the important role of telemedicine in the healthcare industry. Teleconsultation is an advanced telemedicine application that offers great promise to address …
Explaining Health Technology Adoption: Past, Present, Future, Noshad Rahimi, Antonie J. Jetter
Explaining Health Technology Adoption: Past, Present, Future, Noshad Rahimi, Antonie J. Jetter
Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations
One of the most pressing challenges of healthcare innovation today is the lack of technology adoption. Research that improves our ability to understand, predict, and advance technology adoption in health care needs to be based on well-tested theories. With the interest to conduct high quality research in health technology adoption in future, this study reviews the theories used in this context to either identify the superior theory(ies) and or discover the issues that need resolution for improving future HTA researches. To do that, the most popular [1][2] social cognitive theories conceived over the past four decades are reviewed analytically from …