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Designing Enabling Regulatory Frameworks to Facilitate the Diffusion of Wireless Technology Solutions in Healthcare

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Part of the book series: Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age ((Healthcare Delivery Inform. Age))

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Pervasive e-health solutions are emerging as a solution to address key challenges faced in healthcare delivery including escalating costs and the exponential increase of chronic diseases. However, existing regulatory regimes appear to be one of the key stumbling blocks in trying to successfully diffuse these proven superior technology solutions. This is largely due to the fact that they are ill-equipped for dealing with them. The following exploratory study serves to investigate institutional regulatory factors that can impact the adoption of such pervasive solutions. These factors are important as they can shape both the nature of these solutions and their diffusion trajectory. In particular it is argued that co-regulation, a mixture of direct monitoring and intervention of regulators through legislation and complete industry self-regulation, can be an effective approach especially in view of the complex and dynamic nature of this industry. Co-regulation can minimize monitoring costs and enhance compliance. A case vignette is provided to illustrate these points.

This chapter is adapted from a paper “Adoption of Pervasive e-Health Solutions: The Need for an Appropriate Regulatory Framework” by Troshani, Goldberg, and Wickramasinghe presented at the 2012 AMCIS Conference, Seattle, USA, Aug 9–12.

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  1. University of Adelaide Business School, 10 Pulteney Street Level, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia

    Indrit Troshani

  2. INET International Canada, 131 Glen Crescent, Thornhill, ON, Canada, L4J 4W4

    Steve Goldberg

  3. Epworth HealthCare & Department of BITL & HIRi, RMIT University, 2476, Melbourne, VIC, 3001, Australia

    Nilmini Wickramasinghe Ph.D., MBA

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  1. RMIT University, School of Business Information Technolog, Melbourne VIC, Australia

    Nilmini Wickramasinghe

  2. University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

    Latif Al-Hakim

  3. Department of Urology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Chris Gonzalez

  4. DeGroote School Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    Joseph Tan

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Troshani, I., Goldberg, S., Wickramasinghe, N. (2014). Designing Enabling Regulatory Frameworks to Facilitate the Diffusion of Wireless Technology Solutions in Healthcare. In: Wickramasinghe, N., Al-Hakim, L., Gonzalez, C., Tan, J. (eds) Lean Thinking for Healthcare. Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8036-5_19

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