ABSTRACT Telemedicine innovation is important for accelerating the digital transformation of the health care sector. However, telemedicine is a discontinuous digital innovation, and incumbent health care organizations are lagging in its adoption. We combine research on IT innovation adoption and discontinuous innovation to study the relative role of two drivers of discontinuous innovation adoption: digital complementary assets and the regulatory environment. Our findings from 1,753 acute care hospitals across 30 European countries suggest that digital complementary assets have a stronger effect on telemedicine innovation adoption than the regulatory framework. In addition, we observe application- and business model-specific differences. Overall, our findings add the role of organizational versus regulatory drivers of discontinuous innovation adoption to information systems research, emphasize the importance of digital complementary assets for the adoption of discontinuous innovation by incumbent organizations, and provide new insights into how the diffusion of telemedicine innovation can be accelerated.

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数字互补资产和监管在欧洲医院不连续远程医疗创新中的相对作用

摘要远程医疗创新对于加速医疗保健行业的数字化转型非常重要。然而，远程医疗是一种不连续的数字创新，现有的医疗保健组织在采用方面滞后。我们结合对 IT 创新采用和非连续创新的研究，研究非连续创新采用的两个驱动因素的相对作用：数字互补资产和监管环境。我们对 30 个欧洲国家的 1,753 家急症护理医院的调查结果表明，与监管框架相比，数字互补资产对远程医疗创新采用的影响更大。此外，我们观察到特定于应用程序和业务模型的差异。全面的，