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Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology to inform Health Technology Assessment
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- Author / Creator
- Ly, Kynan T
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Rising healthcare cost and improving the quality of care delivered by Alberta’s healthcare system has long been a part of popular discourse. This need to reduce healthcare spending while still maintaining or improving pre-existing quality of care has led many to look towards incorporating new health technology. However, before we can deploy innovative health technologies into the healthcare system, an evaluation of its pros, cons, capabilities, usability, and amongst factors is done. This assessment, or more formally known as a health technology assessment, is where a committee collects evidence and research about a health technology to be presented to healthcare authorities and decision makers.
One attribute that is less studied in health technology assessments compared to other elements such as economic evaluation is user adoption and acceptance of technology. Research into the methodologies and reasoning’s behind individual-level adoption of technologies is one of the most mature streams of research within information system (IS). When expanding the scope of current health technology assessments to understand the adoption of technology from an organization-level or group-level exposes new facets for analysis that explores what influences employees’ productivity, output, and job performance. Over the years, different theoretical models have been developed to describe technology adoption such as the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM and TAM2) (Davis, 1985; Venkatesh & Davis, 2000). In 2003, Venkatesh, Morris, Davis, and Davis proposed a synthesis of these technology adoption models, the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT).
This research proposes that UTAUT can be used as a framework to be used in health technology assessment in Alberta Health Services. This translation is done to showcase how users adopt and accept new health technology, challenges they face, potential solutions, and demonstrating that UTAUT is a worthwhile, effective, and simple framework in analyzing user adoption and acceptance of new health technology. -
- Graduation date
- Fall 2019
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Master of Arts
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- License
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