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ABSTRACT
Health care is a critical contributor to the socioeconomic development of a country. Telemedicine systems can improve health care within such countries. This study develops a telemedicine adoption and use model that embraces psychosocial, behavioral, work process, and organizational-related variables that impact a physician’s adoption and continuance of use of telemedicine. Two hundred and five questionnaires from medical professions at the Black Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, were used in this study. The study found that “Facilitating conditions,” “Compatibility with medical practice” and “Compatibility with physicians preferred work style” are the most prominent constructs in the study context. These findings suggest that the external environment in which a telemedicine system is used will have a significant impact on its use. Therefore, when a telemedicine system is transferred from a developed country to a less-developed country, we will likely see different issues arise in the adoption and use of the system.
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Notes on contributors
Getachew Hailemariam Mengesha is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Science, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Management from Asmara University in 1990 and his Master of Science degree in Information Science from Addis Ababa University in 1998. He finally received his terminal degree, PhD in Information Technology, from Addis Ababa University in 2015. Getachew has authored or coauthored over 12 articles, 2 journal articles, and about 10 conference papers. Five of these articles have been presented and published in the proceedings of Americas Conference on Information systems. He has published articles on Public Sector Capacity Reform in Ethiopia in Journal of Public Administration and Development, John Wiley & Sons and Hull Business School Research Memorandum Series, University of Hull, England, and in the Journal of Communications of the Association for Information Systems. Getachew has attended various trainings at the International Institute of Information Technology in India, University of Hull, England, Technical University of Dresden, Germany, Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany, and Bentley University, USA.
Monica J. Garfield is Professor in Computer Information Systems at Bentley University, Waltham, MA, USA. Her research focuses on the use of IT to enhance team formation and knowledge building as well as socio-technical issues that impact the use and implementation of IT systems. She has worked in the field of telemedicine and team formation for over 20 years, resulting in numerous publications, invited talks, and presentations. Her work has appeared in journals such as Information System Research, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, and Journal of Management Information Systems. She is also the international director of the IT PhD program at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia.
Notes
Roztocki and Piotr Soja are the accepting Associate Editors for this paper.