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Mobile Health Technology in the US: Current Status and Unrealized Scope
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Author(s): Tridib Bandyopadhyay (Kennesaw State University, USA)and Bahman Zadeh (Kennesaw State University, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 18
Source title:
Social Media and Mobile Technologies for Healthcare
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mowafa Househ (College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia), Elizabeth Borycki (University of Victoria, Canada)and Andre Kushniruk (University of Victoria, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6150-9.ch017
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Abstract
ICT technologies like the Internet, mobile telephony, and other enabled handheld gadgets have penetrated our lives in an unprecedentedly disruptive fashion. Explosive computing and communicating power with ever-decreasing price of service over the passage of time have been the hallmark of this success. The success of these technologies has been effectively appropriated in many business processes and systems including the banking sector and the social media applications. However, in spite of having stupendous potential in the healthcare sector, especially in providing access to service for patients in rural and difficult-to-reach areas, very limited ICT appropriation has been witnessed. The authors explain the current extent of ICT penetration and seek reasons for such lackluster inclusion of ICT and mobile technology in the healthcare sector. They use the TAM model to identify the critical factors of technology adoption, and use such understandings to help readers understand the barriers of adoption of ICT and mobile technologies in the healthcare sector. The authors also provide indicative guidelines about how such barriers may be overcome, and widespread adoption and deployment of these technologies can be made possible in the healthcare sector, yielding benefits to large sections of population in the US.
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