Journal article
Health Care Provider Adoption of eHealth: Systematic Literature Review
Interactive Journal of Medical Research, Vol.2(1), e7
2013
Abstract
Background: eHealth is an application of information and communication technologies across the whole range of functions that affect health. The benefits of eHealth (eg, improvement of health care operational efficiency and quality of patient care) have previously been documented in the literature. Health care providers (eg, medical doctors) are the key driving force in pushing eHealth initiatives. Without their acceptance and actual use, those eHealth benefits would be unlikely to be reaped. Objective: To identify and synthesize influential factors to health care providers' acceptance of various eHealth systems. Methods: This systematic literature review was conducted in four steps. The first two steps facilitated the location and identification of relevant articles. The third step extracted key information from those articles including the studies' characteristics and results. In the last step, identified factors were analyzed and grouped in accordance with the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). Results: This study included 93 papers that have studied health care providers' acceptance of eHealth. From these papers, 40 factors were identified and grouped into 7 clusters: (1) health care provider characteristics, (2) medical practice characteristics, (3) voluntariness of use, (4) performance expectancy, (5) effort expectancy, (6) social influence, and (7) facilitating or inhibiting conditions. Conclusions: The grouping results demonstrated that the UTAUT model is useful for organizing the literature but has its limitations. Due to the complex contextual dynamics of health care settings, our work suggested that there would be potential to extend theories on information technology adoption, which is of great benefit to readers interested in learning more on the topic. Practically, these findings may help health care decision makers proactively introduce interventions to encourage acceptance of eHealth and may also assist health policy makers refine relevant policies to promote the eHealth innovation.
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- Title
- Health Care Provider Adoption of eHealth: Systematic Literature Review
- Authors
- Junhua Li (Author) - University of New South WalesAmir Talaei-Khoei (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and BusinessH Seale (Author) - University of New South WalesP Ray (Author) - University of New South WalesC R MacIntyre (Author) - University of New South Wales
- Publication details
- Interactive Journal of Medical Research, Vol.2(1), e7
- Publisher
- J M I R Publications, Inc.
- Date published
- 2013
- DOI
- 10.2196/ijmr.2468
- ISSN
- 1929-073X
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2013 Junhua Li, Amir Talaei-Khoei, Holly Seale, Pradeep Ray, C.Raina MacIntyre. Originally published in the Interactive Journal of Medical Research (http://www.i-jmr.org/), 16.04.2013. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Interactive Journal of Medical Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.i-jmr.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99448647402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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