出版社：International Association for Computer Information Systems
摘要：Various areas including retail, manufacturing, healthcare, service, and government have used RFID. Hospitals have adopted RFID technology to improve management of medical equipment and patient service. Even though the technology has provided various benefits, privacy/security issues regarding patients have been involved. The authors had a research question as to whether privacy/security factors were as important as environmental, organizational, and technological factors for hospital administrators to make technology adoption decisions. As a modified version of innovation diffusion theory, the authors developed a research model that added ethical/legal/privacy/social factors to environmental, organizational, and technological factors. Survey questionnaires were mailed out to 1,068 hospital administrators in the Northwest areas of the U.S. and 75 responded. As a result of factor analysis and canonical discriminant analysis, ethical/legal/ privacy/social factors were as important as other environmental, technological, and organizational factors for the technology adoption decision. Moreover, hospital administrators who have not adopted RFID, but have the intention to adopt RFID were more concerned about privacy policies for patients and employees. They were ethically anxious about getting employees’ consent before the adoption of RFID applications, because hospital administrators can locate employees on the real time basis by RFID applications.
关键词：Radio Frequency Identification (RFID);Hospital; Empirical; Privacy
