英文摘要 |
One of the major challenges facing today’s healthcare industry is the increasingly complicated medical treatments caused by environmental pollution, food safety and life stress. To improve the cost-effectiveness and quality of healthcare services, one possible solution is to share electronic medical records (EMRs) among service providers by using information technologies. As cloud storage service has been adopted by more and more people today, this study investigates, from the perspective of the general public, factors affecting the adoption intention of cloud EMR. Based on the privacy calculus theory, a research model is proposed by simultaneously considering the benefit and risk factors of using cloud EMR. Constructs from the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) take the role of benefit factors in the model. Three trust constructs (representingfacilitating conditions of UTAUT) together with perceived usefulness (PU), perceived easeof use (PEOU), social norms (SN) and privacy concern (PC) are assumed to affect behavioral intention (BI), while PC moderates the relationship between trust and BI.A total of 259 web-based questionnaires have been collected to validate the research model. Results show that the three trust constructs do not affect BI significantly; PU, PEOU and SN have a positive impact on BI, and PC has a negative impact on BI. The influence of PU is more pronounced than that of PC, indicating people’s willingness to accept risks after considering the benefits of cloud EMR. It is also found that PC partially moderates the relationship between trust and BI. Different control variables (gender, age, cloud storage service experience, and service visit frequency) yield different results of model validation. |