Healthcare workers' communicative constitution of health information technology (HIT) resilience
| Autor: | Ashley K. Barrett |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Health information technology
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Information technology Library and Information Sciences Public relations Computer Science Applications Blame 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Brainstorming 0502 economics and business Health care 030212 general & internal medicine Implementation research Psychology Resilience (network) business 050203 business & management Information Systems Design technology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Information Technology & People. 35:781-801 |
| ISSN: | 0959-3845 |
| Popis: | PurposeAlthough resilience is heavily studied in both the healthcare and organizational change literatures, it has received less attention in healthcare information technology (HIT) implementation research. Healthcare organizations are consistently in the process of implementing and updating several complex technologies. Implementations and updates are challenged because healthcare workers often struggle to perceive the benefits of HITs and experience deficiencies in system design, yet bear the brunt of the blame for implementation failures. This combination implores healthcare workers to exercise HIT resilience; however, how they talk about this construct has been left unexplored. Subsequently, this study explores healthcare workers' communicative constitution of HIT resilience.Design/methodology/approachTwenty-three physicians (N = 23), specializing in oncology, pediatrics or anesthesiology, were recruited from one healthcare organization to participate in comprehensive interviews during and after the implementation of an updated HIT system DIPS.FindingsThematic analysis findings reveal physicians communicatively constituted HIT resilience as their (1) convictions in the continued, positive developments of newer HIT iterations, which marked their current adaptive HIT behaviors as temporary, and (2) contributions to inter-organizational HIT brainstorming projects in which HIT designers, IT staff and clinicians jointly problem-solved current HIT inadequacies and created new HIT features.Originality/valueOffering both practical for healthcare leaders and managers and theoretical implications for HIT and resilience scholars, this study's results suggest that (1) healthcare leaders must work diligently to create a culture of collaborative HIT design in their organization to help facilitate the success of new HIT use, and (2) information technology scholars reevaluate the theoretical meaningfulness a technology's spirit and reconsider the causal nature of a technology's embedded structures. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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