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Alter ego, state of the art on user profiling: an overview of the most relevant organisational and behavioural aspects regarding User Profiling.

This report gives an overview of the most relevant organisational and\ud behavioural aspects regarding user profiling. It discusses not only the\ud most important aims of user profiling from both an organisation’s as\ud well as a user’s perspective, it will also discuss organisational motives\ud and barriers for user profiling and the most important conditions for\ud the success of user profiling. Finally recommendations are made and\ud suggestions for further research are given

Canadian Patient Perceptions of Electronic Personal Health Records: An Empirical Investigation

Electronic personal health records (PHRs) have significant promise in helping to empower patients and consumers in general to take more responsibility for managing their own health, with lower costs for the healthcare system. However, few empirical studies have been undertaken to understand patient perspectives on the benefits of PHRs. This article describes an empirical study that proposes a theoretical model on PHR adoption and validates that model using the views of 389 Canadian patients. We found that perceived usefulness, security, privacy, and trust in PHRs, together with personal information technology innovativeness, are significant motivators of adoption, while computer anxiety may be an important deterrent. Overall, this study is a step toward understanding patient views that are key to the success of electronic PHRs. Growing adoption of this novel e-health approach is of importance as it may improve benefits for both patients and society

Patient Access to Electronic Health Records: Strengths, weaknesses and what’s needed to move forward

Electronic health records (EHRs) are desired by both physicians and patients, but the transition to and acceptance of sensitive health information online has been slow. This paper reviews the current literature on EHR adoption and outlines barriers, advantages and explicit steps for moving toward the EHR ubiquity. Potential benefits of EHRs to patients and physicians include reduced costs for patients, hospitals and insurance providers, patient empowerment, less errors in records and better health outcomes, but security and privacy concerns, cost of implementation and poor electronic records management system design have proved barriers to adoption

Exploring and Understanding Factors that Affect the Adoption of Personal Health Records Among Healthcare Providers

Statement of the problem: Lately, there has been increasing recognition of the importance of PHRs in achieving healthcare transformation in the U.S. Regardless significant consumer interest and expected benefits, generally the adoption of PHRs remains relatively low. For the continuing development of patient PHRs, exploring factors that affect the behavior intentions of healthcare providers to adopt PHRs is significant. The Purpose of this study was to create a valid tool entitled “Personal Health Record Assessment Survey” (PHRAS) then implement this tool in the population to understand the predictive relationship, if any, that may exist between perceptions of knowledge, attitudes, subjective norms, self-efficacy, perceived credibility, perceived health-promoting role model, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use regarding the behavioral intent to adopt PHR among healthcare providers. Methods: The study design was descriptive, exploratory, cross-sectional and correlational research design to determine the behavioral intention of healthcare providers to use PHRs. The sample consisted of 300 participants who identified as healthcare providers. Results: Reliability for the whole tool with all factors combined was excellent (Cronbach’s alpha .91). Correlations were statistically significant and showed positive findings across all eight independent variables. The relationship perceived ease of use and the adoption of PHRs (for their medical practice) was not significant. The two factors that were significant in the regression model subjective norms and perceived credibility. The healthcare provider’s use of PHRs for their own health management was significantly associated with encouraging their patients to use PHRs. Significant differences existed between in adoption and use of PHRs by health care providers who use and who don’t use for themselves. Conclusions: The findings of the study suggest that healthcare providers are more likely to use a system if they feel it is secure and safe to use, and there are no privacy issues when using it. Also, if it is promoted by their health care organization, and when their physician recommends it. If their friends or colleagues are using PHRs, they will be more likely to use PHRs also. Further research is needed to gain more understanding of the factors related to ePHRs adoption by healthcare providers

Re-thinking technology and its growing role in enabling patient empowerment

© The Author(s) 2018. The presence and increase of challenges to eHealth in today’s society have begun to generate doubts about the capability of technology in patient empowerment, especially within the frameworks supporting empowerment. Through the review of existing frameworks and articulation of patient demands, weaknesses in the current application of technology to support empowerment are explored, and key constituents of a technology-driven framework for patient empowerment are determined. This article argues that existing usage of technology in the design, development and implementation of patient empowerment in the healthcare system, although well intentioned, is insufficiently constituted, primarily as a result of fragmentation. Systems theory concepts such as holism and iteration are considered vital in improving the role of technology in enabling patient empowerment

Internet-based medical education: a realist review of what works, for whom and in what circumstances

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Diffusion of social cognitive theory in information systems research: A bibliometric study

Recently, Social Cognitive theory (SCT) has been widely adapted across various disciplines in business and management as well as Information Systems (IS) research. In IS, the use of SCT remains in its early stages. Few bibliometric analyses have been published on mapping theories across previous literature. However, to date factors related to literature review mapping in relation to SCT in IS have not been much examined. This paper aims to investigate the expliotiation of SCT in IS research based on bibliometric analysis. In this study a biblimetric analysis is conducted on previous literature reviews/abstracts based on Association of Business Schools (ABS) journal rankings from Information Management field perspective. 62 articles in Information Management field have utilised SCT were published in 17 (out of 53 journals) between 1995 and 2010. The study findings has identified that the organisation/firm and actors as a unit of analysis, positivist paradigm, empirical and quantitative research as well as survey method were used significantly in combination with SCT in IS studies. This bibliometric study will provide the needed platform for a better understanding of high quality research activities. Consequently, this can be used as an indicator to measure research quality and the impact of future direction and exploitation of SCT in IS research

The Applicability of an Extended Technology Acceptance Model for Electronic Medical Records in Jordan

Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is able to reduce medical errors, cost and time for data storage and retrieval. It is also capable of improving information workflow and work efficiency. Despite the benefits of using EMR, low acceptance among doctors is a common problem in many countries including Jordan. The present acceptance studies of EMR have yet to integrate Self-Efficacy and Perceived Behavioural Control as individual capabilities that influence Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use among doctors in Jordan. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to develop an extended Technology Acceptance Model that measures doctor’s acceptance of EMR in private hospitals in Jordan by incorporating three perspectives: individual capabilities, technological, and behavioural. Self-Efficacy and Perceived Behavioural Control were added as factors of individual capabilities perspective while Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use were included as technological perspective, and Behavioural Intention as a factor for behavioural perspective. This study applied a Cross-Sectional survey, and used the Random Sampling technique to select the sample in the targeted hospitals in Jordan. This study also used self-administered questionnaires. In validating the model, the data were analysed using the Structural Equation Model, based on the Partial Least Square approach. The findings indicated that Perceived Usefulness has a positive direct effect on Behavioural Intention to use EMR, and Self-Efficacy has a direct effect on Perceived Ease of Use. Furthermore, Perceived Behavioural Control has a direct positive effect on Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use. These outcomes could assist the healthcare top management in restructuring their strategic planning to improve the EMR implementation. In future, this model can be further tested and extended in other Information Technology (IT) applications, which means that this model can be generalized into the IT domain