Title: Adaptive mapping to realisation methodology to facilitate mobile initiatives in healthcare

Authors: Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Steve Goldberg

Addresses: Center for the Management of Medical Technologies (CMMT), Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, 565 W Adams St, Suite 405, Chicago, IL 60661, USA. ' INET International Inc., 131 Glen Crescent, Thornhill, Ontario, L4J 4W4, Canada

Abstract: Facing increasing pressures to embrace new technologies that support grater patient access to – and higher quality of – but at the same time offer cost effective healthcare delivery many new initiatives are being embraced in healthcare. To pursue such initiatives from idea generation to commercialisation and adoption however, also necessitate new alliances between academe and industry. This in turn requires new research methodologies for such applied research scenarios. The Accelerated Mapping-to-Realisation methodology (AMR) is proffered as an appropriate methodology to ensure academic rigor and validation to models but also facilitate rapid diffusion and commercialisation.

Keywords: accelerated e-business projects; applied research; accelerated mapping-to-realisation methodology; AMR; methodology; m-health; wireless; mobile healthcare; electronic business; diffusion; commercialisation; university-industry cooperation; industrial collaboration; mobile communications; e-health; electronic healthcare.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2007.012396

International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2007 Vol.5 No.3, pp.300 - 318

Published online: 11 Feb 2007 *

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