Purpose: The present study
highlights the attitude of Health Professionals of the General Oncology
Hospital of Attica towards integrated Hospital Information Systems (HISs) and
the socio-demographic factors that shape them.
Background: Health professionals and patients are
becoming more educated and, at the same time, more demanding in terms of the
use of information and communication technologies (ICT). The need for
automation to be integrated into the health sector is highlighted by the
growing requirement to handle the increasing volume of health information that
is becoming more and more abundant, as well as the need to improve the
productivity and efficiency of health professionals.
Materials-Methods: A quantitative
stratified sampling survey was conducted using the occupational category of the
employees as a stratification variable. Data were collected using the standard
Nurses Attitudes Towards Computerization (NATC) self-report questionnaire and
Statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS-v25.
Results: The employees of the
General Oncology Hospital under study have a positive attitude toward the use
of Hospital Information Systems (Mean=3.73, SD=0.54). Statistically significant
differences between occupational categories were found only for the dimension
of “Providing quality care to the patient” (p=0.007)
and more specifically between nurses and doctors. Regarding the effect of
demographic factors on the five dimensions that form the attitude of health
professionals towards the HIS, only “gender” (p = 0.009) and “occupation categories” (p=0.007) seem to influence this attitude and specifically the
dimension “Providing quality care to the patient”, whereas “previous experience
in the use of computers at work” affects the dimension “Reduction in jobs” (p=0.009). The effect of gender was
statistically significant only in terms of the “quality of care provided to
patients” through the use of HIS. The analysis revealed that men hold a more
positive attitude towards the use of computers compared to women.
Conclusions: Employees at the General Oncology Hospital under study have a positive
attitude toward the use of Hospital Informatics Systems (HISs), according to
the statistical analysis of the data. Employees who now use personal computers
for work tend to disagree with the idea that HIS will result in job losses, and
men tend to have the most positive attitudes.
Author (s) Details
Chrysostomos Natsis
Department
of Business Administration, Postgraduate Program in “Health and Social Care
Management”, Sector of Social Policy, University of West Attica, Athens,
Greece.
Sofoklis Chrysanthopoulos
Hellenic Statistical Authority, Piraeus, Greece.
Maria-Aggeliki Stamouli
Department of Business Administration, Postgraduate Program in “Health
and Social Care Management”, Sector of Social Policy, University of West
Attica, Athens, Greece.
Please see the book:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/rudhr/v9/1074
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