Benefits & barriers to adoption of health IT in an elderly low-income, minority community-based environment.
This paper provides a detailed discussion regarding the attitudes, benefits, and barriers to adoption of health IT for low income, minority, elderly populations in a community-based affordable housing setting. Results show that despite challenges to adoption of technology amongst minority populations, senior residents will adopt technology if they understand the benefits of these technologies for improving their health and for remaining independent, thereby enabling them to age-in-place.
Tran
Binh Q
BQ
Department of Biomedical Engineering at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC 20064, USA. tran@cua.edu
Buckley
Kathleen M
KM
Bertera
Elizabeth M
EM
Gonzales
Pedro L
PL
D001294:Attitude to Health; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States