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Using electronic health record systems (EHRSs) is essential to healthcare organizations to provide better services and an efficient use of resources. However, the adoption of EHRS is scarce, and contemporary literature only describes a characterization of the EHRS’ adoption problem without discussing how to support their adoption interactively. This paper sets forth an IT-based interaction framework to promote the adoption of EHRS. The establishing of four cognitive processes for interactively encouraging the adoption of EHRS by physicians, who are their most influential users, tailored the framework. This paper reports an approximation in this direction, describing the assessment of an interaction framework founded on adoption of innovations theory and constructed as an interactive system for facilitating the adoption of innovations in EHRS. The findings of this study indicate that an interactive system would give physicians a relative advantage when using an EHRS. As a result, interactive systems would provide the basis for supporting the adoption of EHRS by physicians for the benefit of stakeholders.
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Castillo, V.H., Martínez-García, A.I., Soriano-Equigua, L. et al. An interaction framework for supporting the adoption of EHRS by physicians. Univ Access Inf Soc 18, 399–412 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-018-0612-x
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