RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Short-term adoption rates for a web-based portal within the intranet of a hospital information system JF BMJ Health & Care Informatics JO BMJ Health Care Inform FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd SP e100004 DO 10.1136/bmjhci-2019-100004 VO 26 IS 1 A1 Athanasios Kotoulas A1 Ioannis Stratis A1 Theodoros Goumenidis A1 George Lambrou A1 Dimitrios - Dionysios Koutsouris YR 2019 UL http://informatics.bmj.com/content/26/1/e100004.abstract AB Objective An intranet portal that combines cost-free, open-source software technology with easy set-up features can be beneficial for daily hospital processes. We describe the short-term adoption rates of a costless content management system (CMS) in the intranet of a tertiary Greek hospital.Design Dashboard statistics of our CMS platform were the implementation assessment of our system.Results In a period of 10 months of running the software, the results indicate the employees overcame ‘Resistance to Change’ status. The average growth rate of end users who exploit the portal services is calculated as 2.73 every 3.3 months.Conclusion We found our intranet web-based portal to be acceptable and helpful so far. Exploitation of an open-source CMS within the hospital intranet can influence healthcare management and the employees’ way of working as well.