The Conservation of Information (COI) concept is derived from Signal Detection Theory (SDT) based on duration-bandwidth tradeoffs: The shorter the duration of a signal, the wider becomes its bandwidth and vice versa. To extend COI to organizational performance and to Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), an organization can focus its attention (e.g., situational awareness) on a narrow business model to increase its rate of plan execution or the inverse.
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Review of Web-Based Research in Health Care for Georgia: Telemedicine, eHealth, and e-Institutional Review Boards
Joseph C. Wood (Medical Ft. Gordon, USA), Kim Marcille Romaner (Possibilities Amplified, Inc., USA), Max E. Stachura (Georgia Regents University, USA), Elena A. Wood (Georgia Regents University, USA), Fjorentina Angjellari-Dajci (Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), USA), LeeAnn Kung (Auburn University, USA), and William F. Lawless (Paine College, USA)
Copyright: © 2013
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3990-4.ch001
Abstract
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become distinguished from Information Technology in that ICT extends specifically beyond technology to its use with critical organizational skills, the skills across a market segment, or across a system of organizations. In this chapter, the authors begin to apply social interdependence theory to their interest in the technologies and techniques that increase both knowledge and social welfare (e.g., ICT), in particular the application of metrics to organizational performance. In this chapter, they address ICT in our research as it is applied to Telemedicine, eHealth, and e-Institutional Review Boards (eIRBs) for healthcare in Georgia.