From Cost to Strategic Focused Offshore Information Systems Investment: The Impact Of Specialized Trainings In The Context Of National Culture

This study identifies national culture, as an important and neglected factor that moderates this relationship and establishes that the trainings provided needs to accommodate local culture to become more successful and have the desired impact on rate of innovation of the offshore location

Early Information Access to Alleviate Emergency Department Congestion

Alleviating Emergency Department (ED) congestion results in shorter hospital stay which not only reduces the cost of medical procedure but also increase the hospital performance. Length of patient stay is used to determine the hospital performance. Organization Information Processing (OIPT) Theory is used to explain the impact of information access and availability on the information processing need and ability of a hospital. Technical devices such as RFID that works as “Auto Identification tags” is suggested to increase the information availability as well as the information processing capability of the hospitals. This study suggests that the OIPT needs to be further broken down into its entity form and then the impact of these entities is measured separately. On the other hand, institutional factors such as employee behavior towards the new technology is studied to analyze the impact of human factors in the implementation of these technical devices in the ED procedures. It can be implied from this study that early information access does increase the use of supporting EMR implementation. However, the importance of the use of EMR decreases with time on hospital performance. Moreover, other factors such as management policies related to IT positively moderates the relationship between information availability and the processing capability of a hospital ED

A Comparative Study of Self-congruency Models for Self-disclosure on Social Networking Sites

Self-congruency is the level of match or mismatch between the self-concept of an individual and the image of a product, brand, or service that an individual consumes or has the intention of consuming. The four most widely used types of self-concepts in the literature are: actual, ideal, social, and ideal social self-concepts. Self-congruency with social networking sites has been shown to affect the attitudinal, intentional, and behavioral aspects of self-disclosure. Previous research in the field has not examined such effects of self-congruencies based on different self-concepts. Based on theory of planned behavior and self-congruency theory, we developed and analyzed four self-congruency models for self-disclosure on social networking sites. All the models showed good fit and all the hypothesized relationships among the constructs of the models were significant. Social self-congruency model outperformed the other models based on Akaike Information Criterion

Service Quality Improvement through Waiting Time Reduction in a Multi-Facility Healthcare Center Without an Appointment System

This study aims to improve the service after making the optimization of current workflow by reducing waiting time. In addition to that, this paper also provides means to identify how resources can be better utilized by hospitals in emerging economies to gain higher performances

Students with Learning Disabilities, Pair Programming And Situational Motivation

Persons with learning disabilities (LD) are underrepresented in computer science and information technology fields despite the explosion of related career opportunities and interest. In this study, we examine the use of pair programming as a collaborative intervention in with computer programming and compare students with learning disabilities to students who do not have learning disabilities. We concentrate on situational motivation constructs which tap into the desire to meet goals and acquire skills. We find that students with LD and similar students without LD fare the same. For the both groups, three of the four situational motivation subscales increase after the introduction of pair programming. The use of pair programming holds promises as an educational intervention for all students including those with learning disabilities

Alleviating Emergency Department Congestion

Emergency Department (ED) congestion has been an issue in the performance of any hospital system (Shen and Wang, 2015). There are many past and ongoing researches on ways to rectify this issue. Some research outline solutions such as ambulance diversion, increasing hospital capacity in terms of both hospital beds and human resource (Alleon, Deo & Lin, 2013). However, these solutions are not always viable and tend to increase the operating cost. Therefore, this research focus on an alternative solution which is streamlining patient flow from ED to inpatient ward. Based on information processing theory, this research analyzes that early information access enables hospital staff to make a knowledgeable and timely decision to move ED patients to inpatient wards. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is suggested as a tool to help access the early information in this patient flow model. In the current scenario, RFID is activated once the patients reaches the ED triage, however this paper suggests that if RFID is enabled as soon as the patients are picked up by ambulance, then the early information gained by the ED triage in this process will help to not only alleviate information uncertainty (IU) but also increase information coordination (IC) amongst the multiple care providers working together in the ED. Hence, resulting in a more efficient patient flow between ED and inpatient ward and therefore, reducing in ED congestion. Furthermore, based on job satisfaction model, this research suggests that the early information access provided by RFID use will increase job satisfaction (JS)n of the triage nurses in ED, resulting in better work condition and superior work performance in the ED triage system. This in turn aids in better patient flow from ED to inpatient ward, therefore reducing ED congestion

The Factors Behind a Successful Implementation of Electronic Health Records Systems

This research explores the role that budget for Information System (IS) and technical expertise of healthcare service provider staff play on the successful leap from a partial to exhaustive implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHR) Systems. Technical expertise in Information Systems might not be easily measurable directly, but there are a number of indicators that could be used as a proxy, such as: Information System (IS) Department Budget, number of IS staff and the extent of technical trainings provided by the IS department to the clinical staff. This research study hypothesizes that quality technical trainings conducted by an IS department will help to significantly increase the success of EHR implementation. The budget allocated for the IS department plays a crucial role in determining the quality of this training. Furthermore, the number of IS staff employed by the department will help support clinical staff, which in tum is expected to support their performance. A regression model is proposed to test the hypotheses presented above. The result of this regression analysis will be used to explain the relationship between the factors related to the investment in IS infrastructure and training and ability to implement EHR systems

Trust and Self-disclosure on Social Networking Sites based on different Self-concepts

An individual has different types of self-concepts and the level to which they match the perceived image of a product, brand, or service is defined as self-congruency. Four most widely used and researched self-concepts in the literature are: actual, ideal, social, ideal social self-concepts. We have used the self-congruencies emanating from these self-concepts to construct conceptual models to study and analyze their effect in trust and self-disclosure on social networking sites (SNS). Our models include both trust in SNS and in its members as well as attitudinal, intentional, and behavioral aspects of self-disclosure. All of our models showed good fit and all the hypothesized relationships among the constructs were significant. Akaike Information Criterion showed that all the models were equal in terms of their performance

Alleviating Emergency Department Congestion: Early Information Access and the Perspective of Information Processing Theory

Alleviating Emergency Department (ED) congestion results in shorter hospital stay which not only reduces the cost of medical procedure but also increase the hospital performance. Length of patient stay is used to determine the hospital performance. Organization Information Processing (OIPT) Theory is used to explain the impact of information access and availability on the information processing need and ability of a hospital. Technical devices such as RFID that works as “Auto Identification tags” is suggested to increase the information availability as well as the information processing capability of the hospitals. On the other hand institutional factors such as employee behavior towards the new technology is studied to analyze the impact of human factors in the implementation of these technical devices in the ED procedures. However, other factors such as employee trainings, management structure and management policies moderate the relationship between information availability and the processing capability of a hospital ED.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/business_strome/1002/thumbnail.jp

Blockchain: a literature review

A blockchain consists of an ordered list with nodes and links where the nodes store information and are connected through links called chains. This technology supports the availability of a publicly maintained ledger of transactions, first gaining mainstream attraction with cryptocurrencies. A myriad of other applications have emerged ever since. There has been a steady growth in the number of research studies conducted in this field; as such, there is a need to review the research in this field. This paper conducts an extensive review on 76 journal publications in the field of blockchain from 2016 to 2018 available in Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) database. The aim of this paper is to present scholars and practitioners with a detailed overview of the available research in the field of blockchain. The selected papers have been grouped into 14 categories. The contents of papers in each category are summarized and future research direction for each category is outlined. This overview indicates that the research in blockchain is becoming more prominent and requires more effort in developing new methodologies and framework to integrate blockchain. It is the need of today’s growing business that ventures into new technologies like cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT). © 2020 Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University