An Empirical Study on the Intentional Behavior for Healthcare Consumers in Telehealth Care System

• Main Authors: Chi-Wen Hsieh, 謝其文
• Other Authors: Wei-Min Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d66z8s

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 醫療資訊管理研究所 === 103 === With aging population and the impact of chronic disease in Taiwan, health insurance costs increased year by year. In order to allow people access to great medical care in familiar home or in the community, our government promote the Tele healthcare policies. Most of the research is put emphasis on the technology , but this study is a combination of technology acceptance model ,health belief model and trust, which probe the intention of Telehealth care system. This Study was developed to examine the factors that would affect TeleHealth care Consumers in Telehealth Care System usage attitude and intention. In this study, the 284 valid responds were collected via internet survey, and used statistic software SPSS 20.0 and smartPLS2.0 to test the relation of hypothesis and the explanatory power of dependent variables. The results showed that ease of use and usefulness was affected by social trust, perceived usefulness was affected by ease of use, user's attitude was affected by ease of use and perceived usefulness and Intention was affected by perceived usefulness, perceived seriousness, perceived benefits and cues to action. Keywords: Telehealth care, Technology acceptance model, Health belief model