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Title: | Application of fuzzy simulation for evaluating enterprise application integration in healthcare organisations |
Authors: | Khoumbati, K Themistocleous, M Irani, Z |
Keywords: | Healthcare organisations;Fuzzy cogitative maps |
Issue Date: | 2006 |
Publisher: | EMCIS2006 |
Citation: | Proceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, Spain, July 6-7 |
Abstract: | Healthcare organisations have focused on the latest technological innovations to overcome their organisational and clinical problems. The information systems were not developed in a cordinated way but evolved as autonomous and hetrogeneous systems. Thus, the integration of these systems represents one of the most urgent priorities of healthcare organisations that allow the whole organisation to meet the increasing clinical, organisational and managerial needs. Recently, technological developments have emerged in the area of integration technology such as Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). This provides significant benefits to organisations to overcome the integration problem. This work therefore evaluates the adoption of EAI in healthcare organisations. In doing so, Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM) simulation is used to demonstrate the causal inter-relationships between the EAI adoption factors. FCM simulation provides insights into better understanding about interdependencies of the factors that influence EAI adoption in healthcare organisations. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4485 |
Appears in Collections: | Business and Management Brunel Business School Research Papers |
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