A Cross-country Comparison of Success Factor Priorities for Health Information Technology Managers: Evidence of Convergence in the Nordic Countries

Thi Thanh Hai Nguyen; Tom Roar Eikebrokk; Carl Erik Moe; Rony Medaglia; Hannu Larsson; Tommi Tapanainen

doi:10.1109/HICSS.2015.342

A Cross-country Comparison of Success Factor Priorities for Health Information Technology Managers: Evidence of Convergence in the Nordic Countries

Thi Thanh Hai Nguyen, Tom Roar Eikebrokk, Carl Erik Moe, Rony Medaglia, Hannu Larsson, Tommi Tapanainen

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Abstract

The implementation of Health Information Technology (HIT) can improve the provision of highquality and efficient healthcare services; however, it has met with significant challenges in many cases. Despite the challenges occurring in many countries, prior research on HIT implementation success factors is, however, mainly from the USA. This research conducted a survey to IT managers in Nordic countries’ healthcare organizations and compiled a list of the HIT implementation success factors that these managers considered important in each country. It was found that IT managers in Nordic countries agree highly with each other in
their judgment of the importance of these success factors. While Nordic countries’ healthcare systems and culture are relatively similar, the results suggest that an internationally applicable set of recommendations for the successful completion of HIT implementations could be within the realm of possibility.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-48
Editors	Tung X. Bui, Ralph H. Sprague Jr.
Number of pages	10
Place of Publication	Los Alamitos, CA
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2015
Pages	2824-2833
Article number	7070157
ISBN (Print)	9781479973675
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479973675
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2015.342
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	The 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. HICSS 2015 - Kauai, Hawaii, United States Duration: 5 Jan 2015 → 8 Jan 2015 Conference number: 48 http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm

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Conference	The 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. HICSS 2015
Number	48
Country/Territory	United States
City	Kauai, Hawaii
Period	05/01/2015 → 08/01/2015
Internet address	http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm

Series	Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
ISSN	1060-3425

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Nguyen, T. T. H., Eikebrokk, T. R., Moe, C. E., Medaglia, R., Larsson, H., & Tapanainen, T. (2015). A Cross-country Comparison of Success Factor Priorities for Health Information Technology Managers: Evidence of Convergence in the Nordic Countries. In T. X. Bui, & R. H. Sprague Jr. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-48 (pp. 2824-2833). Article 7070157 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2015.342

Nguyen, Thi Thanh Hai ; Eikebrokk, Tom Roar ; Moe, Carl Erik et al. / A Cross-country Comparison of Success Factor Priorities for Health Information Technology Managers : Evidence of Convergence in the Nordic Countries. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-48. editor / Tung X. Bui ; Ralph H. Sprague Jr. Los Alamitos, CA : IEEE, 2015. pp. 2824-2833 (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences).

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Nguyen TTH, Eikebrokk TR, Moe CE, Medaglia R, Larsson H, Tapanainen T. A Cross-country Comparison of Success Factor Priorities for Health Information Technology Managers: Evidence of Convergence in the Nordic Countries. In Bui TX, Sprague Jr. RH, editors, Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-48. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE. 2015. p. 2824-2833. 7070157. (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences). doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2015.342