The relationship between telemedicine tools and physician satisfaction, quality of care, and patient visits during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: The objective of our study is to investigate the impacts of telemedicine technology and its specific tools on physicians' overall satisfaction, quality of care, and percentage of patient visits in ambulatory care settings after the COVID-19 lockdowns.

Materials And Methods: Data for our analysis was sourced from the 2021 annual National Electronic Health Records Survey (NEHRS), which included 1,875 complete questionnaire responses from physicians in the 2021 NEHRS. We used regression models to test the effects of telemedicine on physicians' overall satisfaction, quality of care, and percentage of patients' visits.

Contradictions in information technology mediated work in long-term care: An activity theoretic ethnographic study.

Background: The growing demand for aged care services coupled with a global shortage of skilled nursing staff has hindered long-term care facilities' ability to provide necessary services to their residents. Healthcare information technology is expected to mitigate this challenge by streamlining nursing work, while also improving quality of care and productivity.

Objectives: This study set out to examine how nurses and care workers work, the role of information technology (IT) in their work and what contradictions they face in their IT mediated work.

Medication administration process in a residential aged care home: An observational study.

Aims: To understand the medication administration process in residential aged care homes.

Background: Understanding actual processes that nurses follow is critical to guide improvement efforts and to develop robust systems to ensure safety in medication administration.

Methods: Seven nurses were observed for 12 morning medication rounds at two units of a residential aged care home in Australia.

Learning online social support: an investigation of network information technology based on UTAUT.

Extending the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model, this study postulates a model of online social support. The model is empirically tested using data from undergraduates in Taiwan regarding their usage of instant messaging (IM). The test results indicate that all model paths are significant, except that the path between online social support and facilitating conditions is insignificant.

The role of organizational factors in the adoption of healthcare information technology in Florida hospitals.

This study examines whether specific organizational characteristics, such as hospital size, geographic location (urban versus rural), system membership (stand-alone versus system-affiliated), and tax status (for-profit versus non-profit), influence adoption of healthcare information technologies (HIT) in hospitals. We hypothesize the above organizational characteristics to be related to hospitals' adoption of clinical, administrative, and strategic HIT, as well as all HIT in general. Using survey data collected from 98 Florida hospitals, we demonstrate that hospital size, system membership, and tax status, but not geographic location, are systematically related to HIT adoption, and that such factors explain about 28-41% of the adoption variance.

The effect of payer mix on the adoption of information technologies by hospitals.

Background: Numerous studies have examined the relationship between organization characteristics and hospital adoption of information technology (IT). However, no known study has examined whether patient characteristics of those treated at a given hospital influences the decision to adopt IT.

Purpose: The present study combines primary and secondary data to examine the effect of payer mix (the combination of payers that make up a given hospital's patient discharges) on IT adoption in hospitals.