title: How do nursing students perceive the notion of EHR? an empirical investigation.
abstract: This paper describes an empirical study aiming to assess nursing students' perceptions on Electronic Health Record (EHR) concepts and their potential future attitude towards use. Based on the theoretical ground of Rogers' Innovation Diffusion Theory and other research works, a formulated model was empirically validated among ninety nursing undergraduates. Data analysis was based on partial least squares path modeling. Results highlighted the very strong significant effect of relative advantage and observability as well as the significant effect of perceived ease of use to attitude towards using EHR systems. The study findings are discussed along with limitations and future work in the current field.
authors: Health Informatics Laboratory, Faculty of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. parisisgallos@yahoo.com
authors: Parisis
authors: P
authors: Gallos
authors: Stelios
authors: S
authors: Daskalakis
authors: Maria
authors: M
authors: Katharaki
authors: Joseph
authors: J
authors: Liaskos
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Mantas
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016018:Least-Squares Analysis; D008297:Male; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000639:trends; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010465:Perception; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013338:Students, Nursing; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires