Authors:
Sebastian Dünnebeil
1
;
Ali Sunyaev
1
;
Ivo Blohm
1
;
Jan Marco Leimeister
2
and
Helmut Krcmar
1
Affiliations:
1
Technische Universität München, Germany
;
2
Universität Kassel, Germany
Keyword(s):
Ambulatory care, Electronic health services, Health telematics infrastructure, Technology adoption, Standardization, Data security, Practice equipment, Clustering.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cloud Computing
;
Confidentiality and Data Security
;
Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare IT
;
e-Health
;
Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
;
Health Information Systems
;
Healthcare Management Systems
;
Physiological Modeling
;
Platforms and Applications
Abstract:
Germany is introducing a nation-wide health telematics infrastructure that enables various electronic health services (EHS). Little is known about the burdens and drivers for potential adoption of these innovations. Based on a quantitative study among German physicians participating in pilot test regions for health telematics, this paper clusters potential adopters and rejecters of EHS, based on their usage intention as determined with the UTAUT model. The study furthermore depicts opinions, attitudes, as well as equipment of physicians in ambulatory care to find similarities in terms of IT diffusion, process and security standardization, patient involvement, communication, documentation and general working patterns. The clustering shows that “Supporters” and “Rejecters” of EHS differ significantly in many aspects investigated. Based on these empirical findings, implications for design and introduction of e-health services can be derived, ranging from a different way of approaching p
hysicians in ambulatory care to incentive structures for EHS usage.
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