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The Factors Affecting Partnership Quality of Hospital Information Systems Outsourcing of PACS

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of outsourcing partnership between clients and providers in hospital outsourcing projects, and it also explores the relationship between the quality of outsourcing partnership and the success of outsourcing. Subjects of the survey were the medical centers that involved in PACS projects in Taiwan. A total of 97 valid questionnaires were analyzed in this study by the partial least squares to test related hypotheses. The results indicated that there is a positive correlation between the following variables: (1) shared knowledge and mutual benefits (2) mutual dependency and mutual benefits (3) mutual dependency and commitment (4) mutual dependency and predisposition (5) organizational linkage and commitment (6) organizational linkage and predisposition (7) commitment and outsourcing success.

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This study is based in part on data from the Survey Research Data Archive (SRDA) provided by the Academia Sinica. The interpretation and conclusions contained herein do not represent those of SRDA or Academia Sinica.

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  1. Oriental Institute of Technology, New Taipei City, 22061, Taiwan

    Yi-Horng Lai

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  1. Iwate Prefectural University , Iwate, Japan

    Hamido Fujita

  2. Department Computer Science, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA

    Moonis Ali

  3. Universiti Teknologi Malaysis (UTM), Bahru, Malaysia

    Ali Selamat

  4. Iwate Prefectural University , Iwate, Japan

    Jun Sasaki

  5. Iwate Prefectural University , Iwate, Japan

    Masaki Kurematsu

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Lai, YH. (2016). The Factors Affecting Partnership Quality of Hospital Information Systems Outsourcing of PACS. In: Fujita, H., Ali, M., Selamat, A., Sasaki, J., Kurematsu, M. (eds) Trends in Applied Knowledge-Based Systems and Data Science. IEA/AIE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9799. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42007-3_42

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