TY - GEN
T1 - Application of fuzzy simulation for evaluating enterprise application integration in healthcare organisations
AU - Khoumbati, Khalil
AU - Themistocleous, Marinos
AU - Irani, Zahir
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Healthcare organisations have focused on the latest technological innovations to overcome their organisational and clinical problems. The information systems were not developed in a cordinated way but evolved as autonomous and hetrogeneous systems. Thus, the integration of these systems represents one of the most urgent priorities of healthcare organisations that allow the whole organisation to meet the increasing clinical, organisational and managerial needs. Recently, technological developments have emerged in the area of integration technology such as Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). This provides significant benefits to organisations to overcome the integration problem. This work therefore evaluates the adoption of EAI in healthcare organisations. In doing so, Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM) simulation is used to demonstrate the causal inter-relationships between the EAI adoption factors. FCM simulation provides insights into better understanding about interdependencies of the factors that influence EAI adoption in healthcare organisations.
AB - Healthcare organisations have focused on the latest technological innovations to overcome their organisational and clinical problems. The information systems were not developed in a cordinated way but evolved as autonomous and hetrogeneous systems. Thus, the integration of these systems represents one of the most urgent priorities of healthcare organisations that allow the whole organisation to meet the increasing clinical, organisational and managerial needs. Recently, technological developments have emerged in the area of integration technology such as Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). This provides significant benefits to organisations to overcome the integration problem. This work therefore evaluates the adoption of EAI in healthcare organisations. In doing so, Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM) simulation is used to demonstrate the causal inter-relationships between the EAI adoption factors. FCM simulation provides insights into better understanding about interdependencies of the factors that influence EAI adoption in healthcare organisations.
KW - Enterprise application integration
KW - Fuzzy cogitative maps
KW - Healthcare organisations
KW - Simulation
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84857618498
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84857618498
SN - 1902316460
SN - 9781902316468
T3 - Proceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2006
BT - Proceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2006
T2 - 3rd European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2006
Y2 - 6 July 2006 through 7 July 2006
ER -