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Published in: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 1/2013

Open Access 01-12-2013 | Research article

An investigation of the effect of nurses’ technology readiness on the acceptance of mobile electronic medical record systems

Authors: Kuang-Ming Kuo, Chung-Feng Liu, Chen-Chung Ma

Published in: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making | Issue 1/2013

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Abstract

Background

Adopting mobile electronic medical record (MEMR) systems is expected to be one of the superior approaches for improving nurses’ bedside and point of care services. However, nurses may use the functions for far fewer tasks than the MEMR supports. This may depend on their technological personality associated to MEMR acceptance. The purpose of this study is to investigate nurses’ personality traits in regard to technology readiness toward MEMR acceptance.

Methods

The study used a self-administered questionnaire to collect 665 valid responses from a large hospital in Taiwan. Structural Equation modeling was utilized to analyze the collected data.

Results

Of the four personality traits of the technology readiness, the results posit that nurses are optimistic, innovative, secure but uncomfortable about technology. Furthermore, these four personality traits were all proven to have a significant impact on the perceived ease of use of MEMR while the perceived usefulness of MEMR was significantly influenced by the optimism trait only. The results also confirmed the relationships between the perceived components of ease of use, usefulness, and behavioral intention in the Technology Acceptance Model toward MEMR usage.

Conclusions

Continuous educational programs can be provided for nurses to enhance their information technology literacy, minimizing their stress and discomfort about information technology. Further, hospital should recruit, either internally or externally, more optimistic nurses as champions of MEMR by leveraging the instrument proposed in this study. Besides, nurses’ requirements must be fully understood during the development of MEMR to ensure that MEMR can meet the real needs of nurses. The friendliness of user interfaces of MEMR and the compatibility of nurses’ work practices as these will also greatly enhance nurses’ willingness to use MEMR. Finally, the effects of technology personality should not be ignored, indicating that hospitals should also include more employees’ characteristics beyond socio-demographic profiles in their personnel databases.
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Metadata
Title
An investigation of the effect of nurses’ technology readiness on the acceptance of mobile electronic medical record systems
Authors
Kuang-Ming Kuo
Chung-Feng Liu
Chen-Chung Ma
Publication date
01-12-2013
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making / Issue 1/2013
Electronic ISSN: 1472-6947
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-13-88

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