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Physicians' Behavior Intentions Regarding the Use of Mobile Technology: An Exloratory Study

Shengnan Han, Pekka Mustonen, Matti Seppänen, Markko Kallio, Physicians' Behavior Intentions Regarding the Use of Mobile Technology: An Exloratory Study. In: Proceedings of the 8th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems , 2004.

Abstract:

This study aims to explore physicians’ willingness to accept new technology in the form of a mobile medical information system. The study focuses on the effects of temporal and spatial working behavior. A research model built up on previous research into the adoption of an information system, mainly TAM and UTAUT, is proposed and empirically tested, using data collected from 134 physicians working in the health-care sector in Finland. The results suggest that our proposed model could explain about 61% of the variance in physicians’ intentions to use the mobile system. Spatial working behavior has the potential to moderate the relationships between physicians’ beliefs and their intention to use mobile technology, in this case the mobile medical information system. Temporal working behavior as an important external variable does affect physicians’ beliefs of the mobile system, exerting a negative impact on their perceived usefulness of the system. It is too soon to examine the effects of temporal and spatial working behavior on individual adoption of technology; further validation of our findings is necessary in other contexts.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpHaMuSeKa04a,
  title = {Physicians' Behavior Intentions Regarding the Use of Mobile Technology: An Exloratory Study},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems },
  author = {Han, Shengnan and Mustonen, Pekka and Seppänen, Matti and Kallio, Markko},
  year = {2004},
}

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