Understanding patient e-loyalty toward online health care services.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Public health institutions are making a great effort to develop patient-targeted online services in an attempt to enhance their effectiveness and reduce expenses. However, if patients do not use those services regularly, public health institutions will have wasted their limited resources. Hence, patients' electronic loyalty (e-loyalty) is essential for the success of online health care services. PURPOSES:In this research, an extended Technology Acceptance Model was developed to test e-loyalty intent toward online health care services offered by public health institutions. METHODOLOGY:Data from a survey of 256 users of online health care services provided by the public sanitary system of a region in Spain were analyzed. The research model was tested by using the structural equation modeling approach. FINDINGS:The results obtained suggest that the core constructs of the Technology Acceptance Model (perceived usefulness, ease of use, and attitude) significantly affected users' behavioral intentions (i.e., e-loyalty intent), with perceived usefulness being the most decisive antecedent of affective variables (i.e., attitude and satisfaction). This study also reveals a general support for patient satisfaction as a determinant of e-loyalty intent in online health care services. IMPLICATIONS:Policy makers should focus on striving to get the highest positive attitude in users by enhancing easiness of use and, mainly, perceived usefulness. Because through satisfaction of patients, public hospitals will enlarge their patient e-loyalty intent, health care providers must always work at obtaining satisfied users and to encourage them to continue using the online services.

journal_name

Health Care Manage Rev

authors

Martínez-Caro E,Cegarra-Navarro JG,Solano-Lorente M

doi

10.1097/HMR.0b013e31824b1c6b

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-01-01 00:00:00

pages

61-70

issue

1

eissn

0361-6274

issn

1550-5030

journal_volume

38

pub_type

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