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Reporting Health Data In Waiting Rooms With Mobile Technology: Patient Expectation And Confirmation, Iris Reychav, Ankur Arora, Rajiv Sabherwal, Karina Polyak, Jun Sun, Joseph Azuri

Information Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

Objectives: Hospitals and medical staff use digital devices such as mobile phones and tablets to treat patients. Prior research has examined patient-reported outcomes, and the use of medical devices to do diagnosis and prognosis of patients, but not whether patients like using, and intend to use in future, mobile devices to self-report medical data. We address this research gap by developing a theoretical model based on the expectancy confirmation model (ECM) and testing it in an empirical study of patients using mobile technology to self-report data.

Design: This study adopts a non-interventional cross-sectional research design. Randomly-selected patients provided data via …