In team-based medical tasks, digital tools facilitate information among medical experts to support patient safety. Although generally beneficial, Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have not completely mitigated communication and clinical decision errors. The design of systems meant to facilitate information-transfer among care teams has been…

The introduction of advanced technology and mobile instant messaging has constituted a novel social milieu which creates opportunities for individuals to initiate interactive and informative communications. Despite the benefits, negative consequences of social media use have been determined, some of which were presented through matters of concerns…

This study aimed to examine the scholarly community's authentic use of Twitter at a professional conference, #ICIS2016, and to investigate how Twitter supports the conference learning community by examining users' levels of participation in Twitter-enabled conference backchannels and the overall structure of this communication network. We also…

The Internet is a high-speed communication link incorporating computers, networks and users throughout the world via TCPLP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) which allows dissimilar systems to interoperate (Krol,1992). This article presents how Iowa students participating in the international Internet experience learned how to…