Date of Conferral
2021
Degree
Doctor of Information Technology (D.I.T.)
School
Information Systems and Technology
Advisor
Jodine Burchell
Abstract
Medical practitioners have difficulty fully implementing secure electronic medical records (EMRs). Clinicians and medical technologists alike need to identify motivational factors behind secure EMR implementation to assure the safety of patient data. Grounded in the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model, the purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to examine the relationship between medical practitioners’ perceptions of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, and the intention to use secure EMRs in healthcare organizations. Survey data (N = 126) were collected from medical practitioners from the northeastern United States. The results of the multiple regression analysis were significant, F(4, 121) = 13.87, p < .001, R2 = 0.31. The model predicted approximately 31% of the variation in medical practitioners’ intention to use secure EMRs. In the final model, performance expectancy (ß = .20, t = 2.16, p = .03) and effort expectancy (ß = .29, t = 2.77, p = .01) were the only significant contributors. One recommendation is for practitioners to make training in the use of secure EMRs more focused on ease of use and job role applicability. The implications for positive social change include the potential for medical practitioners to increase proliferation of EMR-enhanced patient care and lowering the associated costs with digitally supplemented medical care.
Recommended Citation
Sangurima, Omar Enrique, "Medical Practitioners’ Intention to Use Secure Electronic Medical Records in Healthcare Organizations" (2021). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 10463.
https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/10463
