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Technology Adoption In Healthcare: It’s More Than The Technical Features Despite the constant development of healthcare technologies, many challenges still persist, usually ones that go beyond the technology itself to involve other contextual factors. A study “Understanding Clinicians’ Adoption of Mobile Health Tools: A Qualitative Review of the Most Used Frameworks” published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth proposes an aggregated technology acceptance framework that complements the gaps in existing ones and informs on the elements to look for in order to better foster mHealth adoption.
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Summary: • Although there is a push toward encouraging technology adoption in healthcare, many challenges persist. • Researchers have been using a multitude of frameworks to help them get a better understanding of user acceptance and adoption in healthcare. • This study looked into the frameworks used to analyze mHealth adoption in
50 peer-reviewed articles published over the last ten years to identify potential gaps and complement them. • Existing models often offered oversimplified methods that overlook the fact that healthcare technologies are usually more complex than tools that address a single specific user need. • The findings suggest an extended framework that takes into account the complexity of the healthcare ecosystem, its highly regulated nature, and interdependencies
