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Information technology diffusion: building positive barriers

European Journal of Information Systems, 1998
This paper demonstrates how to build positive barriers to the diffusion of an information technology innovation. Positive barriers are desirable elements that disable the diffusion of an innovation to an undesired set of potential adopters. System developers are motivated in many ways to construct such positive barriers, for example, by security and ...
Richard L. Baskerville, Jan Pries-Heje
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Building Health Information Technology Capacity

CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 2012
Medical errors remain a major safety problem more than a decade after the Institute of Medicine reported 98 000 related deaths occur yearly in US hospitals. Medication errors account for one-third of these errors. Although medication reconciliation is an accepted care standard for patient safety, little evidence is available to make practice ...
Suzie, Burke-Bebee, Marisa, Wilson, Kathleen M, Buckley   +2 more
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Information Technologies in Management of Listed Buildings

Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (2014), 2014
Currently it is a critical situation when every year due to aggressive external factors, thousands of listed buildings are under threat of destruction around the world. In many ways, the state of affairs is due to the lack of effective integrated management of listed buildings.
S. G. Sheina, L. L. Babenko
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Information Technology

Nursing Administration Quarterly, 2007
Healthcare is evolving from a task-based industry to a knowledge-based one. To gain and retain value as intellectual capital, nursing likewise must evolve from a vocation of task performers to a profession of knowledge-workers. Information technology can transform nursing tasks into nursing knowledge.
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Building Support for Health Information Technologies

2003
Despite the increasing role of information technology in health care, its use still lags behind that occurring in other sectors. Factors contributing to this include the complex health care environment and conflicting political agendas. Building political support for information technology in health care depends on understanding the importance of ...
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Improved Party Building Based on Information Technology

2012
What informationization is that basing on the widespread availability of modern information technology, people significantly improve the functionality and efficiency of the various social activities by improving the management of information resources and utilization levels.
Qiangqing Wang, Jierui Wang
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Image-Based Technologies for Constructing As-Is Building Information Models for Existing Buildings

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2017
AbstractBuilding information models (BIMs) have proven to be data-rich, object-oriented, intelligent, and parametric digital representations of buildings to support diverse activities throughout th...
Qiuchen Lu, Sanghoon Lee
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Information and communication technology/Building Information Modeling (BIM)

2020
This chapter provides a very basic understanding of information and communication technology (ICT) and building information modeling (BIM) in relation to the deployment of lean design and construction. ICT encompasses computer hardware, software, and communications devices that allow the sharing and access of information conveniently, locally, and ...
Lincoln H. Forbes, Syed M. Ahmed
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Building the Cognitive Bridge: Children, Information Technology and Thinking

Education and Information Technologies, 2005
In the UK, approaches to developing, encouraging and extending children's' thinking are of considerable professional interest. Teachers and researchers have explored a number of different strategies. These are categorized in recent Department for Education and Skills (DFES) guidance into three broad areas: philosophical, cognitive intervention, and ...
Deirdre Cook, John Ralston
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High-technology buildings and the information economy

Habitat International, 1990
Abstract Clients and building users are demanding more sophisticated buildings. This demand is associated with the drive towards office automation, with the advent of the electronic office and increased use of telecommunications. Such demands are resulting in strong pressures for change in the construction sector.
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