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An initial framework for interactive health portals; using actor network theory

Foroutani, Saman and A. Iahad, Noorminshah and Abdul Rahman, Azizah (2013) An initial framework for interactive health portals; using actor network theory. In: 3rd International Conference on Research and Innovation in Information Systems â?? 2013 (ICRIISâ??13), 2013.

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Abstract

Today, the interaction between patients and Interactive Health Portals (IHPs) is one of the hot topics of e-health domains. Online health care providers try to improve the quality of their online services to increase patients' attraction, trust and loyalty. Dimensions of e-service quality (eSQ) in Interactive Health Portals (IHPs) are usually deployed in a heterogonous network where both human and non-human actors are equally important. Prior research on patients' attraction, trust and loyalty indicates that dimensions of e-SQ are merely technical. However, due to socio-technical reasons, social aspects of these dimensions are inevitable. Therefore, this research is aimed at evaluating the relevancy of Actor Network Theory in the e-SQ context, and accordingly proposing a new theoretical framework for IHPs.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Divisions:Computing
ID Code:37240
Deposited By: Liza Porijo
Deposited On:25 Mar 2014 01:48
Last Modified:13 Sep 2017 06:31

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