Research Paper : Information Technology Adopting by Doctors

Baddour, Adnan Ali ; Dablool, Anas Serag;

Physicians are critical, vital and essential among human resources and play an important role in success of information technology adoption in medical practices. The aim of the present study was to assess physicians' use of, knowledge about and attitudes toward computer applications in public and private hospitals. The study was conducted at 45 hospitals, where twenty of them were private (for-profit) hospitals. Self-administrated
questionnaire was distributed to all physicians who were available during the period of study in study hospitals; physicians were requested to report their use of computers applications and attitude toward these applications. In addition respondents were asked to answer some questions to determine their knowledge with computer applications. Regarding computer usage, results showed that more than half of respondents (53.6 %)
were regular computer users. Younger group of physicians use computer more than others, male physicians used computer more than female physicians and the proportion of computer users was higher among physicians who had attended computer training courses. As regards physician’s knowledge about computer applications among computer users, the knowledge level was good for 13.8% of users. In addition, study revealed that
55.9% of respondents showed positive attitude toward computer applications.