An investigation of healthcare professionals’ intention to use Smart Card Technology

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI:10.4102/sajim.v26i1.1663

L. Malungana, L. Motsi

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Background: Patient records are essential to healthcare professionals access to health information, allow them to assess symptoms and signs across a wider temporal range and improve diagnosis and treatment. The study acknowledged the significance of healthcare informatics such as Smart Card Technology (SCT) in today’s dynamic health systems.Objectives: This study aimed to investigate factors that influence healthcare professionals’ intentions to use SCT in public healthcare.Method: The study adopted a quantitative research approach using questionnaire surveys as a means to collect data from a total of 406 healthcare professionals from hospitals in Tshwane.Results: The findings showed that all of the variables based on the diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory, including behavioural intention (BI), social influence (SI), service quality (SQ), user satisfaction (US), compatibility (C), system use (SU) and information quality (IQ), as well as the health unified theory of acceptance of user technology (HUTAUT), DeLone and McLean’s Information Systems Success (DM ISS) model, had a positive impact on the intention to use the SCT. Continued use of SCT was positively correlated with user satisfaction and found a favourable correlation between BI and all of the factors.Conclusion: The healthcare professionals’ intention to utilise SCT was notably impacted by various factors, including SI, SQ, US, C, SU and IQ. These factors collectively influence the intention to utilise the SCT. In addition, these findings show that BI has an impact on the intention to utilise SCT.Contribution: The results offer a more profound understanding of the variables that impact the use of SCT to improve patient outcomes. In developing countries, public hospitals can enhance their technology acceptance by utilising the SCT adoption framework. Furthermore, this study only included healthcare professionals who worked for public hospitals; to provide a more complete picture of both sectors, future research might concentrate on a target group of healthcare professionals who worked for both public and private hospitals. In addition, future studies should examine patient perceptions regarding the use of SCT in healthcare delivery and the characteristics that encourage patients to adopt and use the technology.

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对医护人员使用智能卡技术意向的调查

背景：病历对于医护人员获取健康信息至关重要，可让他们在更大的时间范围内评估症状和体征，并改进诊断和治疗。该研究认为，在当今动态的医疗系统中，医疗信息学（如智能卡技术）具有重要意义：本研究旨在调查影响医疗保健专业人员在公共医疗保健中使用智能卡技术的意向的因素：研究采用定量研究方法，以问卷调查为手段，收集了来自茨瓦内各医院共 406 名医护人员的数据：研究结果表明，基于创新扩散（DOI）理论的所有变量，包括行为意向（BI）、社会影响（SI）、服务质量（SQ）、用户满意度（US）、兼容性（C）、系统使用（SU）和信息质量（IQ），以及用户技术接受度的健康统一理论（HUTAUT）、DeLone 和 McLean 的信息系统成功（DM ISS）模型，都对 SCT 的使用意向产生了积极影响。继续使用 SCT 与用户满意度呈正相关，并发现 BI 与所有因素之间存在有利的相关性：结论：医护人员使用小班教学的意愿明显受到各种因素的影响，包括SI、SQ、US、C、SU和IQ。这些因素共同影响了使用小班教学的意愿。此外，这些研究结果表明，BI 对使用小班教学的意向也有影响：贡献：研究结果让我们更深入地了解了影响使用小班教学改善患者预后的变量。在发展中国家，公立医院可以利用小班教学采用框架提高技术接受度。此外，本研究只包括了在公立医院工作的医护人员；为了更全面地了解这两个行业的情况，未来的研究可能会将目标群体集中在在公立和私立医院工作的医护人员身上。此外，未来的研究还应考察患者对在医疗服务中使用 SCT 的看法，以及鼓励患者采用和使用该技术的特征。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

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31.40

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1.10%

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312

审稿时长

2 months

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