Exploring service innovation mechanisms of health cloud service: Aperspective ofactivity theory

DOI

10.2991/iaw-sc.2013.86How to use a DOI?

Keywords

service innovation; activity theory; health cloud service;Show-Chwanhospital.

Abstract

This study is a case study of Show-Chwan hospital of Taiwan. Based on a perspectiveof activity theory, this study develops an innovation model of health cloud services (HCS) and explores the evolution of the model. Thisstudycollected the related secondary data of the case between 1995 and 2012andin-depth interviews. The findings are: 1)Epidemic prevention mechanism is a primarydevelopment mechanism of health cloud activity; 2) Electronic medical record management is a core mechanism to promote health cloud activity; 3) Personal health management is a business mechanism of health cloud activity; 4) Privacy protection mechanism is a critical issue of health cloud activity, however, it hinders the development of health cloud activity.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Chen-Tong Chang
AU  - Wen-Hong Chiu
AU  - Chi-Tsung Huang
AU  - Hui-Ru Chi
AU  - Hung-Chia Lin
PY  - 2013/10
DA  - 2013/10
TI  - Exploring service innovation mechanisms of health cloud service: Aperspective ofactivity theory
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Academic Workshop on Social Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 392
EP  - 396
SN  - 1951-6851
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