TY - GEN
T1 - Stakeholders analysis of ethiopian telemedicine projects
T2 - 19th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2013
AU - Mengesha, Getachew Hailemariam
AU - Kebede, Asfaw Atnafu
AU - Garfield, Monica J.
AU - Musa, Philip F.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The deployment of core health care service delivery applications such as Telemedicine presents various challenges in low income countries. The challenges range from technical problems to complex politico-economic, managerial, and behavioral issues. We conducted a case study (Yin, 2009) to understand the impact of various stakeholders on the current telemedicine projects at the Black Lion Teaching Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Preliminary findings reveal an absence of mechanisms for balancing varying interests of multiple stakeholders involved in the Telemedicine projects. The study has both practical and theoretical contributions. First, the study revealed practical implications for Telemedicine projects in the study area, and may be extended to other low income countries in Africa and elsewhere. Second, use of stakeholders' theory was found to offer a robust and sound analysis and explanatory lens for explaining the varying interests among stakeholder groups and the effect of these phenomena on telemedicine use.
AB - The deployment of core health care service delivery applications such as Telemedicine presents various challenges in low income countries. The challenges range from technical problems to complex politico-economic, managerial, and behavioral issues. We conducted a case study (Yin, 2009) to understand the impact of various stakeholders on the current telemedicine projects at the Black Lion Teaching Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Preliminary findings reveal an absence of mechanisms for balancing varying interests of multiple stakeholders involved in the Telemedicine projects. The study has both practical and theoretical contributions. First, the study revealed practical implications for Telemedicine projects in the study area, and may be extended to other low income countries in Africa and elsewhere. Second, use of stakeholders' theory was found to offer a robust and sound analysis and explanatory lens for explaining the varying interests among stakeholder groups and the effect of these phenomena on telemedicine use.
KW - Case study
KW - Stakeholders interest
KW - Stakeholders theory
KW - Telemedicine
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84893211851
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893211851
SN - 9781629933948
T3 - 19th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2013 - Hyperconnected World: Anything, Anywhere, Anytime
SP - 3066
EP - 3075
BT - 19th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2013 - Hyperconnected World
Y2 - 15 August 2013 through 17 August 2013
ER -