eprintid: 1566 rev_number: 2 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/00/15/66 datestamp: 2023-11-09 15:49:44 lastmod: 2023-11-09 15:49:44 status_changed: 2023-11-09 15:40:53 type: conference_item metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Sarlan, A.B. creators_name: Ahmad, R.B. creators_name: Wan Ahmad, W.F.B. creators_name: Dominic, P.D.D. title: Information technology in SMEs private healthcare ispublished: pub keywords: Business strategy; Computerized systems; Data collection; Internet access; Malaysia; Paperless; Research progress, Health care; Industry; Information technology; Research; Strategic planning; Sustainable development, Electric energy storage note: cited By 1; Conference of 3rd National Postgraduate Conference - Energy and Sustainability: Exploring the Innovative Minds, NPC 2011 ; Conference Date: 19 September 2011 Through 20 September 2011; Conference Code:88531 abstract: This research intents to study Information Technology (IT) utilization and business strategy at small, medium and enterprise (SMEs) private clinics in Malaysia. The research includes investigating the SMEs private clinics staff literacy level, IT utilization, their perception towards computerized system and their type of business strategy. Surveys have been conducted at 120 SMEs private clinics around Perak. The objective of this paper is to report on the research progress which briefly covers descriptive data analysis and result from data collection. Generally, most of SMEs private clinics have computer with internet access installed in their clinics but utilization is limited to their personal used only. It is also found that very small number of the SMEs having paperless system © 2011 IEEE. date: 2011 official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84857100462&doi=10.1109%2fNatPC.2011.6136292&partnerID=40&md5=f38f2ffda788f56aabb8dd689e63127c id_number: 10.1109/NatPC.2011.6136292 full_text_status: none publication: 2011 National Postgraduate Conference - Energy and Sustainability: Exploring the Innovative Minds, NPC 2011 place_of_pub: Perak refereed: TRUE isbn: 9781457718847 citation: Sarlan, A.B. and Ahmad, R.B. and Wan Ahmad, W.F.B. and Dominic, P.D.D. (2011) Information technology in SMEs private healthcare. In: UNSPECIFIED.