The relationship between health IT characteristics and organizational variables among German healthcare workers.

ABSTRACT: Health information technologies (HITs) are widely employed in healthcare and are supposed to improve quality of care and patient safety. However, so far, their implementation has shown mixed results, which might be explainable by understudied psychological factors of human-HIT interaction. Therefore, the present study investigates the association between the perception of HIT characteristics and psychological and organizational variables among 445 healthcare workers via a cross-sectional online survey in Germany. The proposed hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling. The results showed that good HIT usability was associated with lower levels of techno-overload and lower IT-related strain. In turn, experiencing techno-overload and IT-related strain was associated with lower

SUBMITTER: Gaube S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8423839 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature