Using an Extended Technology Acceptance Model to Uncover Variables Influencing Physicians’ Use Of EHR in Jordan: Insights from Alberta, Canada

Adoption rates for electronic health records (EHR) remain low in developing nations, even though health information technologies undoubtedly enhance the quality of service delivery and healthcare institutions’ overall efficiency. In this research, researchers employed a technology acceptance integrated model to analyze what factors are most important in encouraging physicians in Jordan to adopt EHR. This framework was created after a thorough review of the relevant literature and with input from physicians in Alberta, Canada, a province with an openly disclosed high rate of electronic health record adoption. To achieve its aim, the present study used a quantitative correlational research strategy. Data were acquired from a convenient sample size of 413 web-based survey participants recruited from the target population of physicians practicing in the public and private healthcare sectors in Jordan. The study’s hypotheses were tested with structural equation modeling. Physicians’ behavioral intentions were shown to be strongly predicted by factors including perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived ’privacy and security,’ financial incentives, and self-efficacy, which collectively accounted for 57.8% of the total variance in behavioral intention. Perceived usefulness had the highest influence on intentions, followed by self-efficacy, perceived ”privacy and security,” and perceived ease of use, with financial incentives having the smallest impact on intentions. Accordingly, healthcare practitioners must consider these variables while developing and validating interpretations about HER adoption. This study concludes with several implications for healthcare directors, policymakers, and providers of health information systems, in addition to suggestions for future research areas

Ethics and taxation : a cross-national comparison of UK and Turkish firms

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The consequences of formal study abroad programs on Thai medical doctors: a literature review and research

Many Thai scholars are skeptical that Thai medical doctors can utilize knowledge and skills in Thailand from experience acquired when they study abroad, due to cultural differences, including a hierarchical culture that places importance on seniority and can prevent medical doctors seeking to actualize those new skills when they return to work in Thailand. Despite growing interest in and study of globalization, there are few existing studies that explore the relationship between social and individual consequences of formal study abroad programs. Nor are there many studies that apply sociological theory on the professions to less developed countries, or that focus on the relationship between power and culture in medical education in Thailand. This thesis will explore these topics by first reviewing and discussing three main bodies of sociological literature on medical professionalization, educational institutions, and study abroad. Given the gaps in the literature, it proposes a comparative study that relies on in-depth interviews with two groups of Thai medical doctors: those who have studied abroad and those who have not. The comparative design will allow the researcher to gain leverage on the consequences of study abroad to individual career trajectories, as well as the broader healthcare system, and contributes to the building of new sociological theory. Despite the many challenges that Thai doctors who go abroad face in adapting and actualizing new skills, I hypothesize that study abroad alters Thailand’s social hierarchy through the creation of a new class of “international doctors,” endowed with new skills, knowledge and cultural capital. While the benefits of belonging to this elite class may not be manifested immediately, due to the seniority system, they become apparent over time

Designing and implementing online assessment in the clinical workplace

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Digital assessment in the clinical workplace : Design, implementation, opportunities, challenges

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