Drivers and Barriers to Adoption

Pastoralists from 37 beef cattle and sheep properties in western Queensland developed and implemented an environmental management system (EMS) over 18 months. The EMS implemented by them was customised for the pastoral industry as part of a national EMS pilot project, and staff from this project encouraged and assisted pastoralists during this trial. The 31 pastoralists surveyed at the end of the pilot project identified few benefits of EMS implementation, and these were largely associated with environmental management and sustainability. In terms of the reasons for uptake of an EMS, these pastoralists identified drivers similar to those reported in other primary industry sectors. These included improving property and environmental management, financial incentives, a range of market benefits, assistance with red tape issues, access to other training opportunities and assistance and support with the development of their EMS. However, these drivers are weak, and are not motivating pastoralists to adopt an EMS. In contrast, barriers to adoption such as the time involved in developing and implementing EMS are tangible and immediate. Given a lack of effective drivers and that pastoralists are under considerable pressure from ongoing rural adjustment processes, it is not surprising that an EMS is a low priority. It is concluded that widespread uptake and on-going use of an EMS in the pastoral industry will not occur unless pastoralists are required or rewarded for this by markets, governments, financiers, and regional natural resource management bodies.

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Barriers to Adoption

Distributed Creativity ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-00190-2_4 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 59-79

Author(s):

Marcus O’Dair

Keyword(s):

Barriers To Adoption

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An Eight-Year Analysis of Surgical Morbidity and Mortality: Data and Solutions

The American Surgeon ◽

10.1177/000313480607201116 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 72 (11) ◽

pp. 1070-1081

Author(s):

Michael A. Goldfarb ◽

Thomas Baker

Keyword(s):

Surgical Outcome ◽

Medical Center ◽

Morbidity And Mortality ◽

Mortality Data ◽

Time Process ◽

Operative Techniques ◽

Barriers To Adoption ◽

Surgical Morbidity ◽

Technical Complications ◽

Common Problems

In this article, a reproducible process for presenting, analyzing, and reducing early and late surgical morbidity and mortality (M&M) is detailed. All M&M cases presented from 1998 through 2005 at Monmouth Medical Center were categorized. Residents and nurses were empowered to report the complications. The five major categories were overwhelming disease on admission, delays in treatment, diagnostic or judgment complications, treatment complications, and technical complications. From the 53,541 operations performed over 8 years, 714 patients were presented, which included 147 deaths and 1,132 category entries. The most common problems were technical complications in 474 (66.4%) patients. The data have generated actionable solutions, many with low barriers to adoption, resulting in safer, less expensive surgical management. Surgical outcome benchmarks have been established and are used for credentialing surgeons. The “Hostile Abdomen Index” has been developed to assess the safest choice for abdominal operative access, pre- and intraoperatively. We explained the real-time process that generated solutions for the entire department as well as changes relevant to residency training and individual operative techniques.

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Educating health professionals about the electronic health record (EHR): Removing the barriers to adoption

Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal ◽

10.34105/j.kmel.2011.03.006 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 51-62

Keyword(s):

Health Professional ◽

Health Informatics ◽

Significant Rise ◽

Barriers To Adoption ◽

Health Records ◽

Professional Students ◽

Poor Access ◽

Health Professional Students ◽

Electronic Health ◽

Hospital Clinic

In the healthcare industry we have had a significant rise in the use of electronic health records (EHRs) in health care settings (e.g. hospital, clinic, physician office and home). There are three main barriers that have arisen to the adoption of these technologies: (1) a shortage of health professional faculty who are familiar with EHRs and related technologies, (2) a shortage of health informatics specialists who can implement these technologies, and (3) poor access to differing types of EHR software. In this paper we outline a novel solution to these barriers: the development of a web portal that provides facility and health professional students with access to multiple differing types of EHRs over the WWW. The authors describe how the EHR is currently being used in educational curricula and how it has overcome many of these barriers. The authors also briefly describe the strengths and limitations of the approach.

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Development and scale-up of bioprotectants to keep staple foods safe from aflatoxin contamination in Africa

10.19103/as.2021.0093.16 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 587-628

Author(s):

Ranajit Bandyopadhyay ◽

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Alejandro Ortega-Beltran ◽

Matieyedou Konlambigue ◽

Lawrence Kaptoge ◽

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Keyword(s):

Management Practices ◽

Scale Up ◽

The United States ◽

Aflatoxin Contamination ◽

Barriers To Adoption ◽

African Countries ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Significant Public Health ◽

Private And Public ◽

Staple Foods

Aflatoxins pose a significant public health risk, decrease productivity and profitability and hamper trade. To minimize aflatoxin contamination a biocontrol technology based on atoxigenic strains of Aspergillus flavus that do not produce aflatoxin is used widely in the United States. The technology, with the generic name Aflasafe, has been improved and adapted for use in Africa. Aflasafe products have been developed or are currently being developed in 20 African countries. Aflatoxin biocontrol is being scaled up for use in several African countries through a mix of public, private, and public-private interventions. Farmers in several countries have commercially treated nearly 400,000 ha of maize and groundnut achieving >90% reduction in aflatoxin contamination. This chapter summarizes the biology of aflatoxin-producing fungi and various factors affecting their occurence, including climate change. Various management practices for aflatoxin mitigation are then discussed. These include biological control, which is increasingly being adopted by farmers in several countries. We discuss biocontrol product development and commercialization in various African countries. Subsequently, we highlight some barriers to adoption and other challenges.

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