Physicians’ motivations to use mobile health monitoring: a cross-country comparison

Shintaro Okazaki; José Alberto Castañeda; Silvia Sanz; Prokriti Mukherji

doi:10.1080/0144929X.2016.1171395

Physicians’ motivations to use mobile health monitoring: a cross-country comparison

Shintaro Okazaki^*, José Alberto Castañeda, Silvia Sanz, Prokriti Mukherji

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King's Business School

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Abstract

While mobile device receives increasing attention as a practical tool to remotely check patients’ health, little research has shed light on physicians’ acceptance of this information and communication technology. This study attempts to fill this research gap by examining how Japanese and Spanish physicians perceive a series of factors associated with mobile diabetes monitoring acceptance, and whether any differences exist in these perceptions between the countries due to different levels of physician scarcity, which is operationalised as the number of physicians available per 10,000 population. The hypotheses were tested by empirical surveys in Japan and Spain. In total, 471 and 497 usable responses were obtained from Japanese and Spanish physicians, respectively. In both countries, physicians were likely to embrace clinical expectations (perceived value) and appreciate the ability to check patients’ health remotely (ubiquitous control) as the main benefits of mobile diabetes monitoring. In terms of cross-country comparison, the influence of personal innovativeness on perceived value and ubiquitous control was stronger in Japan (greater physician scarcity), compared with Spain (less physician scarcity).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-12
Number of pages	12
Journal	Behaviour & Information Technology
Early online date	13 May 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2016.1171395
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 13 May 2016

Keywords

Health information technology
mobile health
physicians
technology assessment
telemedicine

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Physicians’ motivations to use mobile health monitoring: a cross-country comparison

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