Open AccessMobile technology: Usage and perspective of patients and caregivers presenting to a tertiary care emergency department
Author(s) -
Zhenghong Liu,
Mingwei Ng,
Dinesh Visva Gunasekeran,
Huihua Li,
Kishanti Ponampalam,
R Ponampalam
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
world journal of emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1920-8642
DOI - 10.5847/wjem.j.1920-8642.2020.01.001
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , emergency department , medicine , descriptive statistics , tertiary care , logistic regression , health care , medical emergency , perspective (graphical) , cross sectional study , family medicine , nursing , computer science , pathology , statistics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , economics , economic growth
Developments in information technology (IT) have driven a push in healthcare innovation in the emergency department (ED). Many of these applications rely on mobile technology (MT) such as smartphones but not everyone is comfortable with MT usage. Our study aims to characterize the technology usage behavior of users in the ED so as to guide the implementation of IT interventions in the ED.