TY - GEN
T1 - Do German physicians want electronic health services? A characterization of potential adopters and rejecters in German ambulatory care
AU - Dünnebeil, Sebastian
AU - Sunyaev, Ali
AU - Blohm, Ivo
AU - Leimeister, Jan Marco
AU - Krcmar, Helmut
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - 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 physicians in ambulatory care to incentive structures for EHS usage.
AB - 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 physicians in ambulatory care to incentive structures for EHS usage.
KW - Ambulatory care
KW - Clustering
KW - Data security
KW - Electronic health services
KW - Health telematics infrastructure
KW - Practice equipment
KW - Standardization
KW - Technology adoption
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77956328667
SN - 9789896740160
T3 - HEALTHINF 2010 - 3rd International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings
SP - 202
EP - 209
BT - HEALTHINF 2010 - 3rd International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Health Informatics, HEALTHINF 2010
Y2 - 20 January 2010 through 23 January 2010
ER -