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

doi:10.1186/1472-6947-13-88

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Title:	An investigation of the effect of nurses' technology readiness on the acceptance of mobile electronic medical record systems
Authors:	Kuo, Kuang-Ming Liu, Chung-Feng Ma, Chen-Chung
Contributors:	資訊管理系
Keywords:	Mobile Electronic Medical Record (Memr) Nurses Technology Readiness Index (Tri) Technology Acceptance Model (Tam)
Date:	2013-08
Issue Date:	2014-05-26 10:43:08 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	Biomed Central Ltd
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.
Relation:	Bmc Medical Informatics And Decision Making, v.13 n.88
Appears in Collections:	[Dept. of Information Management] Periodical Articles

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