The purpose of this research is to analyze and understand the training program delivered by a Spanish bank. The main research should address the following question: What factors influence, and in what way, the adoption of technology-based training programs and such programs’ success and goal attainment? To the main question, research questions should be added that focus on the following issues:...

n engl j med 360;15 nejm.org april 9, 2009 1477 ARRA is historic health care legislation of the type rarely produced by our famously incremental federal government. The law prevents dramatic state cuts in Medicaid, expands funding for preventive health care services and health care research, and helps the unemployed buy health insurance. But perhaps its most profound effect on doctors and patie...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to create a new measure for clinical information technology (IT) adoption as a proxy variable of clinical IT use. METHODS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) data for 2004 were used. The 18 clinical IT applications were analyzed across 3,637 acute care hospitals in the United States. After factor analysis was conducted, the ...

With the tremendous growth of self-service technologies (SSTs) in many industries, SSTs in the context of service provision are recognized as more effective and important technologies to minimize investment costs and maximizes service quality. By means of reviewing and integrating literature in several fields, the present paper attempted to provide an understanding of this relationship in terms...

The choice of adoption over genetic parenthood was investigated in 105 women retrospectively by questionnaire. Participants were divided into four groups: female/male subfertility; female subfertility; male subfertility; and female/male fertility. Half the sample (59/105) answered the question about the importance of a genetic link. Women who failed to adopt thought a genetic link was important...

With the explosive growth of the Internet in the 1990s, the scalability of current technologies has become a significant issue. The current version of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) apart from some other drawbacks limits the number of available IP addresses. The next version of IP, version 6 (IPv6), provides a comprehensive solution to several limitations of current Internet technology. How...