Perceptions and attitudes of clinical staff towards telemedicine acceptance in Saudi Arabia

作者: Abdulellah Alaboudi , Anthony Atkins , Bernadette Sharp , Mohammed Alzahrani , Ahmed Balkhair

DOI: 10.1109/AICCSA.2016.7945714

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摘要: Regardless of promised benefits telemedicine and its potential technical superiority, adoption is often cited as a failed project the lack understanding user acceptance one most pervasive reasons leading to this failure. More than 40% Information Communications Technology (ICT) projects have for reason any ICT system would not be effective if were averse utilising adoption. To best our knowledge, no comprehensive scientific study has investigated perceptions attitudes clinical staff towards use in Kingdom Saudi Arabia (KSA) healthcare at national level. The objective novel research lies addressing gap conducted collaboration with Ministry Health (MOH). Unified Theory Acceptance Use (UTAUT) used underpin questionnaire support was KSA collect data from random sample different categories KSA. survey 1,523 returned questionnaires selected findings show that 67.6% on average expect or extremely high performance using Also 62.6% agree will compatible culture society. On other hand, 38.0% their job role. Furthermore 40.6% participants stated easy 37.4% them indicated it waste lot time require non-clinical administrative complete

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