Skip to contentScholarGate
LibraryBookshelfDeskReview StudioAssistant
Sign in
PORAS/Evidence
Method evidence record

PORAS

The Perceived Organizational Readiness for Assisting the System (PORAS) is a 19-item self-report measure developed by Helfrich and colleagues to assess organizational readiness to implement health information technology systems and other healthcare innovations. Grounded in Weiner's theory of organizational readiness for change, the PORAS measures four dimensions of readiness: Valence (perceived importance of the change to the organization), Motivation (organizational commitment and drive to implement), Resource Adequacy (availability of financial, human, and technical resources), and Change Efficacy (staff belief in organizational capability to successfully implement). While originally developed for health IT implementation, the PORAS framework and scale are applicable to broader healthcare innovations and evidence-based practice implementation.

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Source record

Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.

Perceived Organizational Readiness for Assisting the System
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / implementation-science
  • Helfrich, C. D., Li, Y. F., Sharp, N. D., & Sales, A. E. (2009). Organizational readiness to change assessment (ORCA): Development of an instrument based on the perspectives of health care professionals. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 16(4), 523–530. · URL
  • Weiner, B. J. (2009). A theory of organizational readiness for change. Implementation Science, 4, 67. · DOI 10.1186/1748-5908-4-67
Open full method

Curated claims

Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.

No curated claims yet

This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.

Related methods

Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.

Taxonomic bucketEBPAS-36machine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyICSmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyILSmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyKTAmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketORICmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

Evidence status

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Bibliographic sources are present. Claim-level evidence review has not been performed.

Sources

2 recorded citations, copied from the method source record.

Actions

Open method page
ScholarGate

A content-first reference library for research methods — what each one is, how it works, and where it comes from.

Open data (CC-BY)

Explore

  • Library
  • Search the library…
  • Browse by field
  • Fields
  • Journey
  • Compare
  • Which method?

Reference

  • Subjects
  • Atlas
  • Glossary
  • Methodology
  • Philosophy

Your tools

  • Bookshelf
  • Desk
  • Chat

Company

  • About
  • Pricing
  • Contact
  • Suggest a method

Entries are compiled from published sources for reference. Verifying the accuracy and suitability of any information for your own use remains your responsibility.

© 2026 ScholarGate · A research-method reference library
  • Privacy
  • Cookies
  • Terms
  • Delete account