City University of Hong Kong
Over the past 15 years, many studies were conducted to develop and demonstrate the feasibility, effectiveness, and acceptability of various consumer health information technologies (CHITs) for the delivery of health care in general or patient self-monitoring and self-management at home in particular. CHITs benefit patients by providing them with prompt access to health, medication, and educational information; their medical records; electronic communication; and decision support services at the point of care. Readily available resources at the time of need facilitate the care delivery process and appear to have a positive impact on patients' health outcomes, well-being, quality of life, and hospital readmission rates. While the potential for using CHITs to improve health care and patient self-management has been acknowledged by many professionals, these technologies are still not always accepted by a large number of potential users, for example, elderly or homebound patients who need access to information for self-care. Factors such as poor device usability, insufficient training and organizational support, lack of skills, low self-efficacy, etc., can inhibit patients from accepting and using the technologies. Benefits will accrue to patients only if the technology is accepted and utilized effectively. Thus, studies of patient acceptance are continually needed. This is because understanding determinants of acceptance can aid in developing patient-centered designed CHITs and assessing their effectiveness in order to maximize the fit between system features and users' needs and expectations. To this end, this research scrutinized factors affecting CHIT acceptance among home care patients with chronic illness with a focus on patients' characteristics, human-technology interaction factors, organizational variables, and social influence factors.
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Event: |
MEEM Seminar 0708_035 |
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Date: |
19 June 2008 (Thursday) |
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Time: |
10:30 am |
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Venue: |
Room B5309 |
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Speaker: |
Dr Calvin OR |
Calvin OR received his BEng Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management in HKUST. He later pursued further studies in USA and completed M.S. Industrial Engineering in Mississippi State University. He has just obtained his PhD in Industrial & Systems Engineering in University of Wisconsin- Madison. His research interests are mainly in human-computer interaction and usability engineering; occupational safety and health.
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