Background Digital health has the potential to improve the quality of care, reduce health
care costs, and increase patient satisfaction. Patient acceptance and consent are a …

Purpose Health information exchange (HIE) initiatives utilize sharing mechanisms through
which health information is mostly transmitted without a patient's close supervision; thus …

Exchange technologies such as health information exchanges (HIE) currently lack
acceptance theories that consider not only cognitive beliefs that result in adoption behavior …

Background The internet has become a major mean for acquiring health information;
however, Web-based health information is of mixed quality and may markedly affect patients' …

Background: The diffusion of health information technologies (HITs) within the health care
sector continues to grow. However, there is no theory explaining how success of HITs …

Background: In many countries, there has been substantial progress in establishing the
electronic transmission of patients' health information between health care providers, but …

Background Information and communication technologies have long become prominent
components of health systems. Rapid advances in digital technologies and data science …

Background Health care providers are driven by greater participation and systemic cost
savings irrespective of benefits to individual patients derived from sharing Personal Health …

Research shows that while individuals support the use of technology to improve the
efficiency and quality of the healthcare system, they are also concerned about the privacy …

Background The internet continues to offer new forms of support for health decision making.
Government, charity, and commercial websites increasingly offer a platform for shared …