IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/inm/orinte/v7y1977i3p95-107.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Use of Computers in Hospitals: An Analysis of Adopters and Nonadopters

Author

Listed:
  • Vijay Mahajan

    (State University of New York at Buffalo)

  • Milton E. F. Schoeman

    (The University of Texas at Austin)

Abstract

The introduction of the computer and information management techniques has been considered by many to be a possible solution to some of the major management problems currently facing hospitals. Nevertheless, only 40% of the nonfederal hospitals in the United States were using computers in 1970. It seems relevant to investigate the reasons why some hospitals have adopted computer use and others have not. This paper presents a basic hypothesis of the factors that distinguish adopters from nonadopters. Data from the state of Texas is used to support the hypothesis. Moreover, characteristic profiles of adopters and nonadopters are developed. Some implications of these results, both for those concerned with hospital administration and those concerned with implementation of computer technology, are discussed.

Suggested Citation

  • Vijay Mahajan & Milton E. F. Schoeman, 1977. "The Use of Computers in Hospitals: An Analysis of Adopters and Nonadopters," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 7(3), pages 95-107, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:7:y:1977:i:3:p:95-107
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.7.3.95
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/inte.7.3.95
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1287/inte.7.3.95?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ron Borzekowski, 2002. "Health care finance and the early adoption of hospital information systems," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2002-41, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:7:y:1977:i:3:p:95-107. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Asher (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/inforea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.