Representing Organizational Conservation of Information - Enterprise Information Systems Design, Implementation and Management: Organizational Applications - page 132

Chapter 9
Representing Organizational
Conservation of Information:
A Review of Telemedicine and
E-Health in Georgia
Max E. Stachura
Medical College of Georgia, USA
Joseph Wood
Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, USA
Fjorentina Angjellari-Dajci
Paine College, USA
James M. Grayson
Augusta State University, USA
Elena V. Astapova
Medical College of Georgia, USA
Hui-Lien Tung
Paine College, USA
Donald Sofge
Naval Research Laboratory, USA
W.F. Lawless
Paine College, USA
AbstrAct
The authors review a model of the conservation of information (COI) applied to organizations. Following
this review, the authors briefly review the mathematics in support of this model and its implications for
the development of theory. They apply the model to a review of the status of telemedicine and e-health
in Georgia, which they had begun to study last year. After their reviews, the authors discuss future steps
and draw conclusions about the model and its benefit to organizational attention and decision-making.