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Effects of Technology Diffusion upon People

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Transforming Health Care Through Information

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Ideas. Everyone has ideas for new, innovative, and good products or services. Some ideas are immediately transformed into reality at the point of origination and then spread rapidly. Other good ideas are never accepted widely—or even at all beyond the narrow world of their creators. Still other ideas seem to start slowly but then at some unpredictable point blossom and become an accepted way to proceed. Some of the conditions for this diffusion process—from being an idea to being an innovative reality to becoming an accepted standard—have been studied for years.

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  1. Jay H. Sanders
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  2. Gary W. Shannon
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  3. Laura N. Adams
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Cincinnati Medical Center, 231 Bethesda Avenue, 45267, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Nancy M. Lorenzi Ph.D. (Associate Senior Vice President) (Associate Senior Vice President)

  2. Riley Associates, 221 Hilltop Lane, 45215, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Robert T. Riley Ph.D. (President) (President)

  3. Corporate Information and Communication Systems, University of Maryland at Baltimore, 100 N. Greene Street, 21201-1502, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Marion J. Ball Ed.D. (Vice President of Education Services) (Vice President of Education Services)

  4. Information Services, University of Maryland, 100 N. Greene Street, 21201-1502, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Judith V. Douglas MHS (Director and Assistant to the Vice President) (Director and Assistant to the Vice President)

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Sanders, J.H., Shannon, G.W., Adams, L.N. (1995). Effects of Technology Diffusion upon People. In: Lorenzi, N.M., Riley, R.T., Ball, M.J., Douglas, J.V. (eds) Transforming Health Care Through Information. Computers in Health Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2385-4_8

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