Volume 29, Issue 5, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.1141
Examination of the factors affecting the acceptance and use of health information technologies in HIMSS public hospital enterprises from the perspective of Unified Technology Acceptance and Use Theory
Abstract
The first phase in digitizing hospitals is to develop advanced, efficient, stable, complex hospital information management system software that can be integrated with all hospital systems and units. Afterwards, it is necessary to ensure that the processes of change, renewal and adaptation of this system are managed and finally to support the process with in-service training and incentives for sustainability. This study, Turkey in HIMSS Stage 6-7 certified health information technology adoption in the first of two city hospitals and health professionals was carried out to determine its use as effective. The research model presented was based on UTAUT. According to UTAUT, the models incorporated within the UTAUT framework include determining factors that directly affect its intent or use. Shows that increasing HIT service quality and efficacy and using health technologies to improve services are positively affected by the users' performance expectation, expectation of effort, social impact and trust perception. While there is concern about the problems in using HIT, it is stated that due to the competent user education level learning to use technology and integration into the system will be fast. HIMSS standards are followed in European countries extensively in digitalization. Considering the HIMSS stage-6 and 7, in total Turkish hospitals have totally 68% share in this area. In our research, measuring the adoption and use of this new system by healthcare professionals of the first public city-hospitals to receive stage-6 and stage-7, is important in terms of contributing to the literature.
Keywords
Health ınformation technology, ınformation technologies, acceptance technologies.