DO GERMAN PHYSICIANS WANT ELECTRONIC HEALTH SERVICES? - A Characterization of Potential Adopters and Rejecters in German Ambulatory Care

Sebastian Dünnebeil, Ali Sunyaev, Ivo Blohm, Jan Marco Leimeister, Helmut Krcmar

2010

Abstract

Germany is introducing a nation-wide health telematics infrastructure that enables various electronic health services (EHS). Little is known about the burdens and drivers for potential adoption of these innovations. Based on a quantitative study among German physicians participating in pilot test regions for health telematics, this paper clusters potential adopters and rejecters of EHS, based on their usage intention as determined with the UTAUT model. The study furthermore depicts opinions, attitudes, as well as equipment of physicians in ambulatory care to find similarities in terms of IT diffusion, process and security standardization, patient involvement, communication, documentation and general working patterns. The clustering shows that “Supporters” and “Rejecters” of EHS differ significantly in many aspects investigated. Based on these empirical findings, implications for design and introduction of e-health services can be derived, ranging from a different way of approaching physicians in ambulatory care to incentive structures for EHS usage.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Dünnebeil S., Sunyaev A., Blohm I., Marco Leimeister J. and Krcmar H. (2010). DO GERMAN PHYSICIANS WANT ELECTRONIC HEALTH SERVICES? - A Characterization of Potential Adopters and Rejecters in German Ambulatory Care . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-016-0, pages 202-209. DOI: 10.5220/0002695602020209

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf10,
author={Sebastian Dünnebeil and Ali Sunyaev and Ivo Blohm and Jan Marco Leimeister and Helmut Krcmar},
title={DO GERMAN PHYSICIANS WANT ELECTRONIC HEALTH SERVICES? - A Characterization of Potential Adopters and Rejecters in German Ambulatory Care},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={202-209},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002695602020209},
isbn={978-989-674-016-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010)
TI - DO GERMAN PHYSICIANS WANT ELECTRONIC HEALTH SERVICES? - A Characterization of Potential Adopters and Rejecters in German Ambulatory Care
SN - 978-989-674-016-0
AU - Dünnebeil S.
AU - Sunyaev A.
AU - Blohm I.
AU - Marco Leimeister J.
AU - Krcmar H.
PY - 2010
SP - 202
EP - 209
DO - 10.5220/0002695602020209