Perspectives of the adoption of telemedicine in South Africa

dc.contributor.authorKholvadia, Safeera
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-12T12:54:36Z
dc.date.available2021-02-12T12:54:36Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionMBAen_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe research investigated the potentials and barriers of the adoption of telemedicine in Johannesburg, South Africa. Their research adopted correlation research design for the study. The research sampled 124 respondents who were health practitioners from eight different hospitals in Johannesburg, South Africa. The data collection instrument were questionnaires. The three hypotheses of the research were tested using correlation to draw inferences. In the end, the research found that the perceived usefulness of telemedicine has significant effects on the behavioral intention of health professionals and that both the external and internal variables have significant effects on perceived ease of use of telemedicine by health professionals. To this end, this research recommended that since telephonic consultation is the main telemedicine technology in South Africa, it is essential for the hospital's management to make adequate provision of all the facilities to sustain telemedicine so that it would make practitioners’ work easier and enable them to embrace the technology.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMK2021en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Law and Managementen_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/30529
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.schoolWits Business Schoolen_ZA
dc.subjectMedicine. Telecommunication in medicine. Medical informatics.en_ZA
dc.titlePerspectives of the adoption of telemedicine in South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA

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