Title :
The role of perceived usefulness and attitude on electronic health record acceptance
Author :
Gajanayake, Randike ; Sahama, Tony ; Iannella, Renato
Author_Institution :
Queensland Res. Lab., NICTA, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Abstract :
Information and communications technologies are a significant component of the healthcare domain and electronic health records play a major role within it. As a result, it is important that they are accepted en masse by healthcare professionals. How healthcare professionals perceive the usefulness of electronic health records and their attitudes towards them have been shown to have significant effects on their overall acceptance. This paper investigates the role of perceived usefulness and attitude on the intention to use electronic health records by future healthcare professionals using polynomial regression with response surface analysis. Results show that the relationship is more complex than predicted in prior research. The paper concludes that the predicting properties of the above determinants must be further investigated to clearly understand their role in predicting the intention to use electronic health records and in designing systems that are better adopted by healthcare professionals of the future.
Keywords :
electronic health records; regression analysis; response surface methodology; electronic health record acceptance; health care domain; health care professionals; information and communications technologies; perceived attitude; perceived usefulness; polynomial regression; response surface analysis; Bismuth; Electronic medical records; Loading; Mathematical model; Medical services; Reliability; Response surface methodology; attitudes; electronic health records; future healthcare professionals; response surface analysis; technology acceptance;
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking, Applications & Services (Healthcom), 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5800-2
DOI :
10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720706