Abstract:
The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is one of the promising models that represent
an important theoretical framework to explain and predict an individual’s technology
acceptance. TAM has been used extensively in the business, education, and information
technology settings, but rarely in a health care setting. Rapid growth of investment
worldwide in information technology by health care organizations has dramatically raised
the importance of technology acceptance as an issue. Technology systems can not
enhance the performance of health care providers or improve patient outcomes if the
technology systems are not accepted by the end users. In the health care industry, nurses
are often identified as end users. Therefore, more investigation for better understanding
of why nurses accept or reject new technology is needed. This research study attempted
to examine the applicability of the TAM in explaining nurses’ acceptance of telemedicine
technology (eICU®) in a health care setting, and also determined factors and predictors
that influenced the probability of the nurses’ acceptance of this technology. The
psychometric evidence (validity and reliability) of the measurement scales used in the
study was discussed.
