A Review of Health Information Technology Implementation Success Factors: Importance of Regulation and Finance

Abstract

Finding the factors contributing to the successful implementation of Health Information Technology (HIT) can help relieve the stress on healthcare systems worldwide caused by e.g. aging populations. This research reviewed the existing literature and identified 16 success factors for HIT implementation, of which one, the influence of external environment, was not found by prior reviews. This factor is crucial in HIT implementation because healthcare organizations in many countries are highly regulated by government policy and dependent on subsidies. The existing research showed a clear tendency for qualitative empirical work in HIT implementation, and in particular, on individual case studies, creating the need for future quantitative research on HIT implementation success factors. The review also suggested a pyramidal research approach and a taxonomy which shows the interactions of different stakeholders with implementers. These can serve as a reference for scholars and implementers of HIT in studying HIT implementation success factors.

The adoption of a serious game to foster interaction between the elderly and the youth

“…Noticeable is that the motivation for playing a serious game is more focused on personal education and increasing general knowledge amongst male youth respondents. This could be the focus on task enjoyment as stated by Nguyen et al [31]. This has a greater influence on the youth and the actual task performed then on elderly and the results show this is especially strong among male youth respondents.…”

“…But when intergenerational play is mediated by new digital technology like (online) digital games, the traditional roles of older are reversed with their younger player. This corresponds with the task enjoyment in the model [31] where the youth finds game tasks and particular guiding the elderly to play more important.…”

“…Playing entertainment games can change behavior in a positive way [30]. The model of social games and intergenerational communication [31] predicts that age is a moderating factor for the effect of task enjoyment and experience enjoyment on intergenerational perception and the intention to communicate. The actual communication may change as the two generations spend more time together and know more about each other even though both are reserved at the beginning [10].…”

“…The actual communication may change as the two generations spend more time together and know more about each other even though both are reserved at the beginning [10]. Nguyen's [31] predicts that when elderly play the game with a young person it is more satisfying and enjoyable for the elderly than playing the game just by themselves. Therefore the experience enjoyment for them has more effect on their perception of the other and intention to communicate with them.…”

Critical Success Factors in Health Information Technology Implementation

“…The current understanding of HIT implementation success factors is based on the gradual accumulation of mainly case and action research results (Nguyen et al 2014), all of which would need further examination with sound methodological applications. Some prior work obtains the list of success factors from the opinion of expert panels Brender et al 2006;Kaplan & Harris-Salamone, 2009).…”