The Factors Affecting Intentions of Medical Staff to Use Personal Health Record in Northern Hospitals of Taiwan

Completed

• Conditions: Healthy Subjects; Health Care Providers

• Registration Number: NCT01124084
• Lead Sponsor: Taipei Medical University WanFang Hospital

Brief Summary

Application of health information technology be able to solve a lot of problems of medical management, and effective actions to achieve the purpose of medical care. The "Personal Health Record" (PHR), so that patients can have, access and update their health records and share health information to a new healthcare provider can avoid the duplication of a clinic procedures, reduce medical costs and time, and can make an appointment online, tracking vaccinations, check drug allergy, master with health-related information such as exercise, diet condition, and have no time constraints to the hospital clinic. In the future, PHR is expected to reduce medical errors, reduce costs, effective use of medical resources. Purpose of this study is to understand the impact to the staff's attitude and intention when they use the PHR, and to explore the medical records of personal health awareness and intention to use the relevant factors, the research result will be a reference to government authority or medical institutions in order to promote personal health record system in Taiwan.

In this study, there will include the medical staff of three hospitals in Taipei, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM model) based structured questionnaire will be used, questionnaire had tested by validity and reliability. The electronic questionnaires will be used, and apply the software SPSS and Amos17.0 descriptive and inferential statistical analysis.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-03
• Primary Completion: 2010-04
• Status Verified: 2010-05
• Study Completion: 2010-05
• Study First Submitted: 2010-05-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-05-13
• Last Update Submitted: 2010-05-13
• Study First Posted: 2010-05-14
• Last Update Posted: 2010-05-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1800

Inclusion Criteria

• Health care provider
• Volunteer Subject
• Be able to understand the content of questionnaire

Exclusion Criteria

• None

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Taipei Medical University WanFang Hospital; 🇨🇳 Taipei, Taiwan