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The effects of creating psychological ownership on physicians’ acceptance of clinical information systems

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Pare, G., Sicotte, C., Jacques, H.·2006·Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

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OBJECTIVE: Motivated by the need to push further our understanding of physicians' acceptance of clinical information systems, we propose a relatively new construct, namely, psychological ownership. We situated the construct within a nomological net using a prevailing and dominant information technology adoption behavior model as a logical starting point. DESIGN: A mail survey was sent to the population of users of a regional physician order entry (POE) system aimed at speeding up the transmission of clinical data, mainly laboratory tests and radiology examinations, within a community health network. MEASUREMENTS: All scales, but one, were measured using previously validated instruments. For its part, the psychological ownership scale was developed using a multistage iterative procedure. RESULTS: Ninety-one questionnaires were returned to the researchers, for a response rate of 72.8%. Our findings reveal that, in order to foster physicians' adoption of a clinical information system, it is important to encourage and cultivate a positive attitude toward using the new system. In this connection, positive perception of the technology's usefulness is crucial. Second, results demonstrate that psychological ownership of a POE system is positively associated with physicians' perceptions of system utility and system user friendliness. Last, through their active involvement and participation, physicians feel they have greater influence on the development process, thereby developing feelings of ownership toward the clinical system. CONCLUSION: Psychological ownership's highly significant associations with user participation and crucial beliefs driving technology acceptance behaviors among physicians affirm the value of this construct in extending our understanding of POE adoption.

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Authors
Pare, G., Sicotte, C., & Jacques, H.
Affiliations
HEC Montréal (CA)
Venue
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Published
2006-03-01
Volume
13
Issue
2
Pages
197-205
ISSN
  • 1067-5027 (ISSN-L)
  • 1527-974X
OpenAlex
W90011144
Cited by
222
References
60
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FWCI
12.10
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Information Systems Theories and Implementation
Keywords
psychological ownership, clinical information systems, physician acceptance, technology acceptance, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, user participation, user involvement in system development, nomological network, scale development
MeSH terms
Attitude of Health Personnel, Attitude to Computers, Data Collection, Humans, Information Systems, Physicians, Surveys and Questionnaires, Medical Order Entry Systems

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