Potential factors influencing adoption of a service oriented architecture : experiences from specialist healthcare in Norway

2008

Masteroppgave i informasjonssystemer- Universitetet i Agder 2008 Specialist healthcare in Norway is an important part of the medical care ”value chain” financed by the Norwegian government through the Ministry of Health and Care Services. The specialist healthcare sector in Norway is facing increasing challenges amongst others relating to; national reporting, frequent organizational and process changes, budget cuts, collaboration across organizational borders and judicial issues related to accessing sensitive information. Previous research in other countries has shown the healthcare sector as a lateadopter when it comes to using new IT paradigms and IT technologies to solve collaboration ch…