Abstract
Post-hospital care transitions involve coordination and continuity of care from hospital providers to patients and community providers. These care transitions represent a domain of high-risk interorganizational collaborations. However, a conversation about how health information technology (HIT) can enhance interorganizational knowledge transfer during care transitions is largely absent in the information systems literature. We conducted a review of qualitative studies of post-hospital care transitions to better understand barriers to knowledge transfer in high-risk interorganizational collaborations. Our analysis highlights how time pressures inhibit multilateral knowledge transfers, accommodation of fluctuating absorptive capacity, and reconciliation of knowledge and goal conflicts. We advance research questions that focus on HIT capabilities to ease these barriers.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 48-74 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Journal of Management Information Systems |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 3 2015 |
Keywords
- IS design
- absorptive capacity
- health information technology
- healthcare transitions
- interorganizational knowledge transfer
- knowledge management
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Management Information Systems
- Computer Science Applications
- Management Science and Operations Research
- Information Systems and Management