This behavioral analysis investigates physician background factors affecting innovation
adoption. This is a topic of importance as innovations can improve patient-health outcomes …

Background Medical knowledge is the body of information about diseases, mechanisms and
pathogenesis, therapies and interactions, and interpretation of lab tests, and allows us to …

Diffusion of innovations, defined as the adoption and implementation of new ideas,
processes, products, or services in health care, is both particularly important and especially …

Physician adoption of innovation has been a source of interest for at least four decades,
beginning with the first study of drug adoption in the midwestern United States. 2 If we can …

Innovations are either accepted or rejected in large part because of their implementation--
sometimes without regard to improvements over existing techniques. By understanding the …

Background The failure rates for implementing complex innovations in healthcare
organizations are high. Estimates range from 30% to 90% depending on the scope of the …

Studies of determinants of adoption of new medical technology have failed to coalesce into
coherent knowledge. A flaw obscuring strong patterns may be a common habit of treating a …

This paper presents a literature review on innovation adoption in healthcare. Healthcare is
one of the world's largest and fastest-growing industries, driven by demands such as ageing …

Introduction: New medical devices and health IT products are reaching the market at an
increasingly rapid pace. Prioritizing innovation options among a wide array of relevant and …

Background: Innovation is a priority in the NHS, yet innovations differ one from another, they
can mean different things for different individuals and so adoption and diffusion present a …