Implementing technology in healthcare: insights from physicians

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dc.contributor.author	Ruiz Morilla, Maria Dolors
dc.contributor.author	Sans, Mireia
dc.contributor.author	Casasa, Albert
dc.contributor.author	Giménez, Nuria
dc.date	2022-01-18T17:41:33Z
dc.date	2022-01-18T17:41:33Z
dc.date	2017
dc.identifier	Ruiz Morilla, Maria Dolors; Sans, Mireia; Casasa, Albert [et al.]. Implementing technology in healthcare: insights from physicians. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2017, 17, 92. Disponible en: <https://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12911-017-0489-2>. Fecha de acceso: 18 ene. 2021. DOI: 10.1186/s12911-017-0489-2
dc.identifier	1472-6947
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12328/3080
dc.identifier	https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-017-0489-2
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12328/3080
dc.description	Background: Technology has significantly changed the way health organizations operate. However, the role it plays in healthcare systems remains unclear. This aim of this study was to evaluate the opinion of physicians regarding e-health and determine what factors influence their opinion and describe the advantages, inconveniences and threats they may perceive by its use. Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study. A questionnaire which had been previously designed and validated by the authors was used to interview physicians from the Barcelona Medical Association. 930 physicians were contacted by phone to participate in the study. Results: Seven hundred sixty physicians responded to the questionnaire (response rate: 82%). The usefulness of telemedicine scored 7.4 (SD 1.8) on a scale from 1–10 (from the lowest to the highest) and the importance of the Internet in the workplace was 8.2 points (SD 1.8). Therapeutic compliance (7.0 -SD 1.8-) and patient health (7.0 -SD 1.7-) showed the best scores, and there were differences between professionals who had and had not previously participated in a telemedicine project (p < 0.05). The multivariate regression model explained the 41% of the variance for 7 factors: participation in telemedicine project (p < 0.001), quality of clinical practice (p < 0.001), patient health (p < 0.001), professional workload (p = 0.005), ease-of-use of electronic device (p = 0.007), presence of incentives for telemedicine (p = 0.011) and patient preference for in-person visits (p = 0.05). Conclusions: Physicians believe in the usefulness of e-health. Professionals with previous experience with it are more open to its implementation and consider that the benefits of technology outweigh its possible difficulties and shortcomings. Physicians demanded projects with appropriate funding and technology, as well as specific training to improve their technological abilities. The relationship of users with technology differs according to their personal or professional life. Although a 2.0 philosophy has been incorporated into many aspects of our lives, healthcare systems still have a long way to go in order to adapt to this new understanding of the relationship between patients and their health.
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dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Springer Nature
dc.relation	BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	Implementació de tecnologia a l'assistència sanitària
dc.subject	Assistència sanitària
dc.subject	Tecnologia
dc.subject	Telemedicina
dc.subject	Salut
dc.subject	Implementación de tecnología en la asistencia sanitaria
dc.subject	Asistencia sanitaria
dc.subject	Tecnología
dc.subject	Telemedicina
dc.subject	Salud
dc.subject	Implementation of technology in health care
dc.subject	Health care
dc.subject	Technology
dc.subject	Telemedicine
dc.subject	Health
dc.subject	61
dc.title	Implementing technology in healthcare: insights from physicians
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