The performance of BCMA-aided healthcare service: Implementation factors and results

Abstract

Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA) system has been adopted by healthcare providers. Besides its benefits in reducing medication errors, cost and time, various side effects and new medication errors have been reported; however, the nature of the new problems has not been studied systematically. Although there are many studies focusing on IT implementation, very few studies addressing technology acceptance have been done in healthcare context. Due to the complex and dynamic features of the healthcare system, it is necessary to study how new technology acceptance models can be applied in this field. In this study, a model related to BCMA implementation will be constructed to enable the prediction and control of medication error reduction and side effects generation. To achieve that, the relationship between different implementation measures will be studied, and then predictive variables will be selected to construct the model for different measures. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.