Investigation of physicians' awareness and use of mHealth apps: A mixed method study

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2017-09-01

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Sezgin, Emre
Özkan Yıldırım, Sevgi
Yıldırım, İbrahim Soner

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Objective: The study aims to understand physicians' awareness of mobile health (mHealth) apps and their intentions to use these apps in medical practice.

Subject Keywords

Information technology, Healthcare, Mobile health, Technology acceptance, Physicians, Application use

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30329

Journal

HEALTH POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2017.07.007

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E. Sezgin, S. Özkan Yıldırım, and İ. S. Yıldırım, “Investigation of physicians’ awareness and use of mHealth apps: A mixed method study,” HEALTH POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY, pp. 251–267, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30329.