Blockchain adoption readiness assessment framework for health professionals of Malaysian public hospitals

Abstract

Healthcare professionals are the primary user of health information technology, therefore, before introducing blackchin as an underlying mechanism to Electronic Health Record (EHR), it is vital to understand their readiness to adopt it. The most influential factors of health professionals blockchain technology adoption are largely unknown from the existing literature. A limited number of studies provides a conceptual framework that can be further extended, empirically tested to develop understating in this regard particularly in developing country context like Malaysia. To fill such gaps current study, conducts a literature review to provide an compressive framework compiling the influential factors. The finding hypothesizes that the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), the Norm Activation Model (NAM), and the initial trust factors directly influences the adoption intention while, trust also plays a mediating role between those relationships. A future study will be conducted to empirically test and validate the conceptual framework that has been proposed. The framework can be extended and tasted in other developing country context.