Healthcare Providers’ Intention to Use Technology to Attend to Clients in Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Background. Patient records’ relevance is associated with a variety of needs and objectives. Substantiating the health of patients perpetually and allowing professionals in the medical field to assess both signs and symptoms that fall in a relatively wider temporal point of view and contributions th...

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Autores principales:	Richard Okyere Boadu, Mary Adama Lamptey, Kwame Adu Okyere Boadu, Godwin Adzakpah, Nathan Kumasenu Mensah
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Publicado:	Hindawi Limited 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5fd428255c6c4103bf30f98ed250aef92021-11-15T01:18:56ZHealthcare Providers’ Intention to Use Technology to Attend to Clients in Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana2314-614110.1155/2021/5547544https://doaj.org/article/5fd428255c6c4103bf30f98ed250aef92021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5547544https://doaj.org/toc/2314-6141Background. Patient records’ relevance is associated with a variety of needs and objectives. Substantiating the health of patients perpetually and allowing professionals in the medical field to assess both signs and symptoms that fall in a relatively wider temporal point of view and contributions that lead to enhanced diagnoses and treatment are all quintessential of patient records. The advancement of information technology systems has led to the anticipation that development will be put into digitization and electronic means of storing patient records in order to grease their handling. Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH) is piloting implementation of patient’s electronic health record system. The introduction of the electronic health record system known as Lightwave Hospital Information Management System (LHIMS) was to provide a permanent solution to patients’ continuity of care. User’s acceptance of new information technology is seen to be one of the most challenging issues in information system. This study assesses healthcare providers’ (HP’) behavioural intention to use LHIMS to attend to clients in Cape Coast Teaching Hospital and other factors influencing it. Methods. A nonexperimental cross-sectional study was used to obtain information from 84 HP recruited from the various departments and units in CCTH who use LHIMS to attend to clients. The sample size of 90, representing 8% of HP in CCTH, was randomly selected from the various departments and units. However, 84 (indicating 93.3% response rate) of the selected HP were available during the period of the research. Results. Perceived ease of use (PEOU) of LHIMS had the strongest direct effect on perceived usefulness (PU), with a highly significant path coefficient of 0.75. PU had the greatest impact on attitude about HP’ behavioural intention to use (BIU) LHIMS to attend to patients’ healthcare delivery in CCTH (0.91). This relationship was highly significant at p<0.001. PEOU did not have a significant direct effect on attitude about LHIMS use, as hypothesized in the original technology acceptance model. However, attitude towards use had a strong significant effect on HP’ BIU of LHIMS, with a strong statistically significant path coefficient of 0.98 at p<0.001. Conclusions. We conclude that attitude towards use have a significant influence on HP’ behavioural intention to use LHIMS to attend to clients in Cape Coast Teaching Hospital.Richard Okyere BoaduMary Adama LampteyKwame Adu Okyere BoaduGodwin AdzakpahNathan Kumasenu MensahHindawi LimitedarticleMedicineRENBioMed Research International, Vol 2021 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Richard Okyere Boadu Mary Adama Lamptey Kwame Adu Okyere Boadu Godwin Adzakpah Nathan Kumasenu Mensah Healthcare Providers’ Intention to Use Technology to Attend to Clients in Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana
description	Background. Patient records’ relevance is associated with a variety of needs and objectives. Substantiating the health of patients perpetually and allowing professionals in the medical field to assess both signs and symptoms that fall in a relatively wider temporal point of view and contributions that lead to enhanced diagnoses and treatment are all quintessential of patient records. The advancement of information technology systems has led to the anticipation that development will be put into digitization and electronic means of storing patient records in order to grease their handling. Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH) is piloting implementation of patient’s electronic health record system. The introduction of the electronic health record system known as Lightwave Hospital Information Management System (LHIMS) was to provide a permanent solution to patients’ continuity of care. User’s acceptance of new information technology is seen to be one of the most challenging issues in information system. This study assesses healthcare providers’ (HP’) behavioural intention to use LHIMS to attend to clients in Cape Coast Teaching Hospital and other factors influencing it. Methods. A nonexperimental cross-sectional study was used to obtain information from 84 HP recruited from the various departments and units in CCTH who use LHIMS to attend to clients. The sample size of 90, representing 8% of HP in CCTH, was randomly selected from the various departments and units. However, 84 (indicating 93.3% response rate) of the selected HP were available during the period of the research. Results. Perceived ease of use (PEOU) of LHIMS had the strongest direct effect on perceived usefulness (PU), with a highly significant path coefficient of 0.75. PU had the greatest impact on attitude about HP’ behavioural intention to use (BIU) LHIMS to attend to patients’ healthcare delivery in CCTH (0.91). This relationship was highly significant at p<0.001. PEOU did not have a significant direct effect on attitude about LHIMS use, as hypothesized in the original technology acceptance model. However, attitude towards use had a strong significant effect on HP’ BIU of LHIMS, with a strong statistically significant path coefficient of 0.98 at p<0.001. Conclusions. We conclude that attitude towards use have a significant influence on HP’ behavioural intention to use LHIMS to attend to clients in Cape Coast Teaching Hospital.
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title	Healthcare Providers’ Intention to Use Technology to Attend to Clients in Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana
title_short	Healthcare Providers’ Intention to Use Technology to Attend to Clients in Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana
title_full	Healthcare Providers’ Intention to Use Technology to Attend to Clients in Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana
title_fullStr	Healthcare Providers’ Intention to Use Technology to Attend to Clients in Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana
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Healthcare Providers’ Intention to Use Technology to Attend to Clients in Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana

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