Purpose – The present study investigates the factors that directly affect the use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) among healthcare professionals. Findings will contribute to our understanding of which explanation (deterministic vs. institutional) might be the most relevant to directly predict adopters’ behaviour, and whether institutional and rational factors are correlated, or represent two separate […]
Purpose – Health policy-makers are increasingly promoting programs that embed cost-opportunity logics. Their implementation requires the mobilization and exploitation of expert knowledge controlled by professionals dispersed in the territory, unaccustomed to share/integrate their knowledge with others, and sometimes adversary to cost-opportunity logics. The success and viability of these programs thus depends on experts’ commitment to […]