Understanding health information technology adoption: A synthesis of literature from an activity perspective

Authors

Jun Sun, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Zhe Qu, Fudan University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2015

Abstract

The vast body of literature on health information technology (HIT) adoption features considerably heterogeneous factors and demands for a synthesis of the knowledge in the field. This study employs text mining and network analysis techniques to identify the important concepts and their relationships in the abstracts of 979 articles of HIT adoption. Through the lens of Activity Theory, the revealed concept map of HIT adoption can be viewed as a complex activity system involving different users, technologies and tasks at both the individual level and the social level. Such a synthesis not only discloses the current knowledge domain of HIT adoption, but also provides guidance for future research on HIT adoption.

Comments

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Original published version available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-014-9497-2

Recommended Citation

Sun, J., & Qu, Z. (2015). Understanding health information technology adoption: A synthesis of literature from an activity perspective. Information Systems Frontiers, 17(5), 1177–1190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-014-9497-2

First Page

1177

Last Page

1190

Publication Title

Information Systems Frontiers

DOI

10.1007/s10796-014-9497-2