title: Improve Quality of Life - additional criteria for health and social care information technology acceptance in an ageing world.
abstract: Reversing the rising cost of health and social systems is needed in ageing developed and developing countries. A new model of ageing is advocated by the World Health Organization. This new model asks for more personal health accountability and a more integrated approach on care and preventive cure. Information systems and technologies can play an important role in supporting the changes needed in order to have better and more sustainable health and social care systems. Using value and results for patients as criteria by which systems are accepted by users and by organizations can contribute to a value based competition in health and social care systems. The unified theory of acceptance and use of technology is presented, and the pertinence of adding an extension to the theory in order capture Quality of Life improvements expectations is explored.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Technica de Lisboa, Portugal. jorgemonteiro@comfortkeepers.pt
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Monteiro
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000639:trends*; D057285:Precision Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012944:Social Support; D018511:Systems Integration