Shadi Saleh|Rawya Khodor|Mohamad Alameddine|Maysa Baroud
Readiness of healthcare providers for eHealth: the case from primary healthcare centers in Lebanon
American University of Beirut|American University of Beirut|American University of Beirut|American University of Beirut
ehealth positively impact efficiency quality healthcare services potential benefits extend patient healthcare provider organization primary healthcare phc settings may particularly benefit ehealth settings healthcare provider readiness key successful ehealth implementation accordingly necessary explore potential readiness providers use ehealth tools therefore purpose study assess readiness healthcare providers working phc centers lebanon use ehealth tools selfadministered questionnaire used assess participants sociodemographics computer use literacy access participants readiness ehealth implementation appropriateness management support change efficacy personal beneficence study included primary healthcare providers physicians nurses providers working 22 phc centers distributed across lebanon descriptive bivariate analyses anova independent ttest kruskal wallis tamhanes t2 used compare participant characteristics level readiness implementation ehealth 541 questionnaires 213 completed response rate 394 majority participants physicians 469 nurses 268 physicians 540 nurses 614 providers 509 felt comfortable using computers access computers phc center physicians 770 nurses 877 others 925 frequency computer use varied study found significant difference personal beneficence management support change efficacy among different healthcare providers relative participants level comfort using computers significant difference level comfort using computers appropriateness significant difference also found access computers relation personal beneficence change efficacy frequency computer use change efficacy implementation ehealth cannot achieved without readiness healthcare providers study demonstrates majority healthcare providers phc centers across lebanon ready ehealth implementation findings study considered decision makers enhance scaleup use ehealth phc centers nationally efforts directed towards capacity building healthcare providers