Adoption and Diffusion of Telemedicine Technology in Health Care Organizations: A Comparative Case Study in Hong Kong

Rapidly changing dynamics and turbulence in the business environment have made technology management increasingly critical to the bottom-line survival and competitiveness of many organizations. Adoption and diffusion are 2 challenging technology management issues facing health care organizations. As health care is becoming an increasingly important sector of the national and the global economy, contemporary problems in access, equality, and costs have demanded innovativeness from health care organizations that, in response need to adopt and institutionalize appropriate technological innovations for service improvement and expansion. A case in point is telemedicine technology that has the potential to support physicians' patient care and improve health care organizations' competitiveness.