Many industries have reaped the benefits of their Information Technology (IT) investments. The adoption and diffusion of information systems in the health care arena has been growing:
a. more slowly. c. twice as fast.
b. more quickly. d. about the same.
A
According to Menachemi, Randeree, Burke, and Ford (2008), the adoption and diffusion of
information systems in the health care arena has been growing more slowly than in other sectors.
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