Table 7. Other models' comparison with TAM and confirmation of suitability of the TAM factors.
Author(s) | Technology studied | Main topic | Years | Sample | Setting | Country |
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Chau and Jen-Hwa 46 | Telemedicine | Comparing different models, including TAM, the theory of planned behavior (TPB), and an integrated model for acceptance telmedicine | 2002 | Physicians ( N > 400) |
Hospital | China |
Liang et al 51 | Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) | Examining whether the TAM can be applied to explain physician acceptance of CPOE | 2006 | Physicians ( N = 200) |
Hospital | China |
Day et al 45 | Videophone technology | Evaluating hospice providers∍ attitudes and perceptions regarding videophone technology in the hospice setting in the context of the TAM | 2007 | Providers ( N = 17) |
Hospice | Colombia |
Smith and Motley 50 | Electronic prescribing | The degree of e-prescribing acceptance is highly predictable by factors that are very stable ease-of-use variables derived from the TAM | 2010 | Pharmacists ( N = 50) |
Pharmaceutical company's supply | United States |
Kim et al 47 | Telehomecare (telemedicine) | Comparing two theories of technology adoption, the technology acceptance model and the theory of planned behavior, to explain and predict physicians' acceptance and use of the telehomecare technology | 2010 | Physicians ( N = 40) |
Homecare | United States |
Kuo et al 183 | Mobile electronic medical record (MEMR) systems | Confirming relationships between the TAM components, and behavioral intention in the technology acceptance model toward MEMR usage | 2013 | Nurses ( N = 665) |
Hospital | Taiwan |
Manimaran and Lakshmi 49 | Health management information system (HMIS) | Formulating a model of technology acceptance of health management information system (HMIS) that features the TAM was confirmed | 2013 | Health workers ( N = 960) |
Rural health care | India |
Hsiao and Tang 44 | Mobile health care devices | The use intention of mobile health care devices from the perspectives of elderly people | 2015 | Elderly people ( N = 338) |
– | Taiwan |
Kim et al 48 | Mobile electronic health records (EMR) system | Confirming the factors that influence users' intentions to utilize a mobile electronic health records (EMR) system with TAM | 2016 | Health care professionals ( N = 942) |
Hospital | South Korea |
Abbreviation: TAM, technology acceptance model.