Primary Care Physician's Attitude Towards the GERMAN e-Health Card Project—Determinants and Implications
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In Germany e-health cards will be distributed nationwide to over 80 million patients. Given the impending mandatory introduction of the e-health technology, the objective of this study was to examine the determinants of primary care physicians' acceptance of the technological innovation. The study was conducted prior to the introduction of the e-health cards. A questionnaire survey was carried out addressing primary care physicians from different fields. The reduction of medication error rates and the improvement of communication between medical caregivers are central aspects of the perceived usefulness. Primary care physicians rate their involvement in the process of the development of the technology and their own IT expertise concerning the technological innovation as rather low. User involvement and IT expertise can explain 46 % of the variance of perceived usefulness of the e-health card. User involvement plays a crucial role in the adoption of the German e-health card. Primary care physician's perspective should be represented in the process of developing and designing the technology.
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Within studies applying TAM, factors influential to health care providers' acceptance of eHealth included perceived usefulness and needs, perceived ease of use, and all facilitating or inhibiting conditions.
“Within these studies [25,29,41,42,75,77,79,81,83-85,87,88,102], the factors influential to health care providers’ acceptance of eHealth included their perceived usefulness and needs, perceived ease of use, and all of the facilitating or inhibiting conditions.”
From Health Care Provider Adoption of eHealth: Systematic Literature Review (2013) · cites this paper as [83]
Perceived usefulness was influenced by perceived ease of use, eHealth and business process alignment, end user involvement, management commitment and support to change, health care provider-patient relationship, and IT experience and knowledge.
“whereas their perceived usefulness was influenced by the perceived ease of use, eHealth and business process alignment, end user involvement, management commitment and support to change, health care provider-patient relationship, and IT experience and knowledge [25,28,33,56,77,83,86-88].”
From Health Care Provider Adoption of eHealth: Systematic Literature Review (2013) · cites this paper as [83]
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- Authors
- Ernstmann, N., Ommen, O., Neumann, M., Hammer, A., Voltz, R., & Pfaff, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Cologne (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Ernstmann, Nicole
- Venue
- Journal of Medical Systems
- Published
- 2008-06-22
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 181-188
- ISSN
- 0148-5598 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-689X
- OpenAlex
- W2041676735
- Cited by
- 30
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 4.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of Medical Systems (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Keywords
- primary care physicians, technology acceptance, perceived usefulness, user participation, IT expertise, medication errors, health information technology adoption
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attitude to Computers, Attitude to Health, Computer User Training, Consumer Behavior, Female, Germany, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Practice Patterns, Physicians', Physicians, Family, Politics, Medical Records Systems, Computerized
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