Article ; Online: Influence of Disease-Related Stigma on Patients' Decisions to Upload Medical Reports to the German Electronic Health Record: Randomized Controlled Trial.
JMIR human factors
2024 Volume 11, Page(s) e52625
Abstract: Background: The rollout of the electronic health record (EHR) represents a central component of the digital transformation of the German health care system. Although the EHR promises more effective, safer, and faster treatment of patients from a systems ...
Abstract | Background: The rollout of the electronic health record (EHR) represents a central component of the digital transformation of the German health care system. Although the EHR promises more effective, safer, and faster treatment of patients from a systems perspective, the successful implementation of the EHR largely depends on the patient. In a recent survey, 3 out of 4 Germans stated that they intend to use the EHR, whereas other studies show that the intention to use a technology is not a reliable and sufficient predictor of actual use. Objective: Controlling for patients' intention to use the EHR, we investigated whether disease-specific risk perceptions related to the time course of the disease and disease-related stigma explain the additional variance in patients' decisions to upload medical reports to the EHR. Methods: In an online user study, 241 German participants were asked to interact with a randomly assigned medical report that varied systematically in terms of disease-related stigma (high vs low) and disease time course (acute vs chronic) and to decide whether to upload it to the EHR. Results: Disease-related stigma (odds ratio 0.154, P<.001) offset the generally positive relationship between intention to use and the upload decision (odds ratio 2.628, P<.001), whereas the disease time course showed no effect. Conclusions: Even if patients generally intend to use the EHR, risk perceptions such as those related to diseases associated with social stigma may deter people from uploading related medical reports to the EHR. To ensure the reliable use of this key technology in a digitalized health care system, transparent and easy-to-comprehend information about the safety standards of the EHR are warranted across the board, even for populations that are generally in favor of using the EHR. |
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MeSH term(s) | Humans ; Electronic Health Records ; Social Stigma ; Disease Progression ; European People |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2024-04-10 |
Publishing country | Canada |
Document type | Randomized Controlled Trial ; Journal Article |
ISSN | 2292-9495 |
ISSN (online) | 2292-9495 |
DOI | 10.2196/52625 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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