How Do Patients Expect Apps to Provide Drug Information?

Patients use various sources to obtain information on pharmaceutical drugs. Mobile health care applications (apps) providing drug information to users are increasingly made available and of rising importance for the health care domain. However, apps usually offer functionality that only medical professionals or vendors consider useful for patients, although their considerations are not likely to meet patient expectations. In our exploratory study, we identify 33 features patients expect in apps for drug information provision with interviews and empirically assess their perceived importance in an online survey. Results indicate that patients desire personalization features for provided information but not for the app interface. This work contributes to research and practice by identifying and empirically ranking drug information provision features patients find important. We furthermore establish a foundation for future research on effective mobile drug information provision and provide insights for practice on development of patient-centered mobile health apps

The Trajectory of IT in Healthcare at HICSS: A Literature Review, Analysis, and Future Directions

Research has extensively demonstrated that healthcare industry has rapidly implemented and adopted information technology in recent years. Research in health information technology (HIT), which represents a major component of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, demonstrates similar findings. In this paper, review the literature to better understand the work on HIT that researchers have conducted in HICSS from 2008 to 2017. In doing so, we identify themes, methods, technology types, research populations, context, and emerged research gaps from the reviewed literature. With much change and development in the HIT field and varying levels of adoption, this review uncovers, catalogs, and analyzes the research in HIT at HICSS in this ten-year period and provides future directions for research in the field

Commit to Be Fit: Antecedents and Consequences of Goal-Directed Health and Fitness Technology Use

This three-essay dissertation explores the antecedents and consequences of goal-directed health and fitness technology use. My first essay is an interdisciplinary review of consumer health IT research in the IS field and health informatics field. To explore the nature of consumer health IT research, I conducted a thematic analysis using Orlikowski and Iacono's (2001) IT artifact framework. I found that the nominal, proxy, and tool views of IT artifact are the most widely used perspectives when scholars frame how consumer health IT as an IT artifact is designed, deployed, and used. This study summarizes current consumer health IT research trends and suggests promising directions for future work.Inspired by my first essay, my second and third essays focus on extending current knowledge of fitness technologies, a subtype of consumer health IT. In my second essay, I look at fitness technology use behavior from a goal-directed behavior perspective, to ask how fitness technologies help users achieve their fitness goals. Drawing on the concepts of IT affordance and engagement, I propose that actualized fitness technology affordances influence users' cognitive and emotional exercise engagement, leading to fitness goal attainment. The results show that only emotional exercise engagement exerts significant influences on fitness goal attainment and that only actualized self-appraisal affordance and actualized social appraisal affordance significantly impact users' emotional exercise engagement.My third essay focuses on understanding individuals' discontinuance and habitual use of fitness trackers from the perspectives of fitness tracker identity and exercise identity. Drawing on Carter and Grover's (2015) theoretical model of IT identity, this research investigates how the technological, personal, and social aspects of users' fitness technology use experiences shape their fitness tracker identity to influence their fitness tracker use behaviors. My results show that individuals who positively identify with a fitness tracker are less likely to discontinue and more likely to develop habitual use. Further, for the same fitness tracker identity, employees with stronger exercise identity have lower discontinuance intention. Also, for the same fitness tracker identity, employees with more monetary rewards from their organizations have lower discontinuance intention. Moreover, I found various significant antecedents of fitness tracker identity