Impact of Hospital Characteristics and Governance Structure on the Adoption of Tracking Technologies for Clinical and Supply Chain Use: Longitudinal Study of US Hospitals

• Published in: Journal of medical Internet research Vol. 24; no. 5; p. e33742
• Main Authors: Zhu, Xiao, Tao, Youyou, Zhu, Ruilin, Wu, Dezhi, Ming, Wai-kit
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Journal of Medical Internet Research 26.05.2022; Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH, Associate Professor; JMIR Publications
• Subjects: Automation; Censuses; Centralization; Clinical governance; Comparative analysis; Decentralization; Efficiency; Forecasts and trends; Health care industry; Health care policy; Health disparities; Hospital systems; Hospitals; Human error; Infrastructure; Innovations; Intelligence; Logistics; Longitudinal studies; Medical personnel; Medical records; Older people; Original Paper; Patients; Policy making; Radio frequency identification; Rural areas; Rural communities; Supply; Supply chain management; Technological change; Technology; Technology adoption; Tracking; Urban areas; United States > US; bar coding; clinical use; hospital affiliation; tracking technology adoption; location; radio frequency identification; supply chain use; governance structure; smart hospital

Despite the increasing adoption rate of tracking technologies in hospitals in the United States, few empirical studies have examined the factors involved in such adoption within different use contexts (eg, clinical and supply chain use contexts). To date, no study has systematically examined how gov...