Special Issue on Theory Driven Interventions Are We Looking at Social and Organizational Aspects of Health Care Technology in the Field of Medical Informatics?

摘要

Information Systems (IS) research has highlighted that Information Technology implementation is a socio-technical phenomena, where social and organizational challenges often result in implementation failure. Medical informatics (MI) is broadly the core field where discussions of healthcare technology are happening. Many researchers have over the years suggested useful learnings from IS into MI (Lorenzi et al., 1996; Anderson & Aydin, 2005), which might help avoid implementation failures (Heeks, 2006). Our special issue on Theory-Driven Interventions, brings together three papers that highlight social and organizational aspects of health information systems implementation from a theory-driven perspective.