The Roles of E-Government in Healthcare from the Perspective of Structuration Theory
Title | The Roles of E-Government in Healthcare from the Perspective of Structuration Theory |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2018 |
Authors | Tungela, Nomawethu, Mutudi, Maria, Iyamu, Tiko |
Conference Name | 2018 Open Innovations Conference (OI) |
Date Published | Oct. 2018 |
Publisher | IEEE |
ISBN Number | 978-1-5386-5318-0 |
Keywords | Collaboration, cybersecurity, Data analysis, E-Government, e-government concept, Electronic government, government policies, Health Care, healthcare, healthcare services, information technology, Lenses, Medical services, policy-based governance, pubcrawl, public administration, qualitative methods, resilience, Resiliency, security, structuration theory, Trajectory |
Abstract | The e-government concept and healthcare have usually been studied separately. Even when and where both e-government and healthcare systems were combined in a study, the roles of e-government in healthcare have not been examined. As a result., the complementarity of the systems poses potential challenges. The interpretive approach was applied in this study. Existing materials in the areas of healthcare and e-government were used as data from a qualitative method viewpoint. Dimension of change from the perspective of the structuration theory was employed to guide the data analysis. From the analysis., six factors were found to be the main roles of e-government in the implementation and application of e-health in the delivering of healthcare services. An understanding of the roles of e-government promotes complementarity., which enhances the healthcare service delivery to the community. |
URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8535993/ |
DOI | 10.1109/OI.2018.8535993 |
Citation Key | tungela_roles_2018 |
- Lenses
- Trajectory
- structuration theory
- security
- Resiliency
- resilience
- qualitative methods
- public administration
- pubcrawl
- policy-based governance
- Medical services
- collaboration
- information technology
- healthcare services
- Healthcare
- health care
- government policies
- Electronic government
- e-government concept
- E-Government
- data analysis
- Cybersecurity