A Systematic Review of Patient Acceptance of Consumer Health Information Technology Export

@article{citeulike:5661046, abstract = {A systematic literature review was performed to identify variables promoting consumer health information technology (CHIT) acceptance among patients. The electronic bibliographic databases Web of Science, Business Source Elite, CINAHL, Communication and Mass Media Complete, MEDLINE, PsycARTICLES, and PsycINFO were searched. A cited reference search of articles meeting the inclusion criteria was also conducted to reduce misses. Fifty-two articles met the selection criteria. Among them, 94 different variables were tested for associations with acceptance. The majority of those tested (71\%) were patient factors, including socio-demographic characteristics, health- and treatment-related variables, and prior experience or exposure to computer/health technology. Only ten variables were related to human-technology interaction; 16 were organizational factors; and one was related to the environment. In total, 62 (66\%) were found to predict acceptance in at least one study. Existing literature focused largely on patient-related factors. No studies examined the impact of social and task factors on acceptance, and few tested the effects of organizational or environmental factors on acceptance. Future research guided by technology acceptance theories should fill those gaps to improve our understanding of patient CHIT acceptance, which in turn could lead to better CHIT design and implementation. 10.1197/jamia.M2888}, author = {Or, Calvin K. L. and Karsh, Ben-Tzion}, citeulike-article-id = {5661046}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1197/jamia.M2888}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19390112}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19390112}, day = {23}, doi = {10.1197/jamia.M2888}, journal = {J Am Med Inform Assoc}, keywords = {health-information-systems, health-it, human-factors, interactive-technology, systematic-review, technology-acceptance}, month = {April}, pages = {M2888+}, posted-at = {2009-08-28 02:10:16}, priority = {2}, title = {A Systematic Review of Patient Acceptance of Consumer Health Information Technology}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1197/jamia.M2888}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5661046 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5661046 N2 - A systematic literature review was performed to identify variables promoting consumer health information technology (CHIT) acceptance among patients. The electronic bibliographic databases Web of Science, Business Source Elite, CINAHL, Communication and Mass Media Complete, MEDLINE, PsycARTICLES, and PsycINFO were searched. A cited reference search of articles meeting the inclusion criteria was also conducted to reduce misses. Fifty-two articles met the selection criteria. Among them, 94 different variables were tested for associations with acceptance. The majority of those tested (71%) were patient factors, including socio-demographic characteristics, health- and treatment-related variables, and prior experience or exposure to computer/health technology. Only ten variables were related to human-technology interaction; 16 were organizational factors; and one was related to the environment. In total, 62 (66%) were found to predict acceptance in at least one study. Existing literature focused largely on patient-related factors. No studies examined the impact of social and task factors on acceptance, and few tested the effects of organizational or environmental factors on acceptance. Future research guided by technology acceptance theories should fill those gaps to improve our understanding of patient CHIT acceptance, which in turn could lead to better CHIT design and implementation. 10.1197/jamia.M2888 JF - J Am Med Inform Assoc TI - A Systematic Review of Patient Acceptance of Consumer Health Information Technology SP - M2888 KW - health-information-systems KW - health-it KW - human-factors KW - interactive-technology KW - systematic-review KW - technology-acceptance AU - Or, Calvin AU - Karsh, Ben-Tzion PY - 2009/04/23/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1197/jamia.M2888 ER -