Open AccessMotivations for the Adoption of Chronic Disease Information Systems in General Practice
Author(s) -
Daniel Carbone,
Stephen Burgess
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of business systems, governance and ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1833-4318
DOI - 10.15209/jbsge.v4i1.150
Subject(s) - incentive , psychology , general practice , chronic disease , knowledge management , business , applied psychology , marketing , medicine , family medicine , computer science , economics , microeconomics
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the key motivational factors that lead to the successful implementation of Chronic Diseases Information Systems (CDISs) in twenty eight general practices in a case study of a large general practice division network in Australia. The literature identified three major areas of CDIS motivation: patient care gap motivator, internal motivators and external motivators. Patient care emerged as the most important motivation for adopting CDIS, followed by risk management and financial incentives. However, the study also determined that the motivational forces are inter-related and suggests that the decision to adopt CDIS should consider a number of these identified factors.