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

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, in

SUBMITTER: Kuo KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3750758 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature