Consumer Adoption of Future MyData-Based Preventive eHealth Services: An Acceptance Model and Survey Study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Constantly increasing health care costs have led countries and health care providers to the point where health care systems must be reinvented. Consequently, electronic health (eHealth) has recently received a great deal of attention in social sciences in the domain of Internet studies. However, only a fraction of these studies focuses on the acceptability of eHealth, making consumers' subjective evaluation an understudied field. This study will address this gap by focusing on the acceptance of MyData-based preventive eHealth services from the consumer point of view. We are adopting the term "MyData", which according to a White Paper of the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communication refers to "1) a new approach, a paradigm shift in personal data management and processing th

SUBMITTER: Koivumaki T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5756317 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature