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Sustaining Patient Portal Continuous Use Intention and Enhancing Deep Structure Usage: Cognitive Dissonance Effects of Health Professional Encouragement and Security Concerns

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  • Murad Moqbel

    (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)

  • Barbara Hewitt

    (Texas State University)

  • Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah

    (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

  • Rosann M. McLean

    (University of Kansas Medical Center)

Abstract

Sustaining patient portal use is a major problem for many healthcare organizations and providers. If this problem can be successfully addressed, it could have a positive impact on various stakeholders. Through the lens of cognitive dissonance theory, this study investigates the role of health professional encouragement as well as patients’ security concerns in influencing continuous use intention and deep structure usage among users of a patient portal. The analysis of data collected from 177 patients at a major medical center in the Midwestern region of the United States shows that health professional encouragement helps increase the continuous use intention and deep structure usage of the patient portal, while security concerns impede them. Interestingly, health professional encouragement not only has a direct positive influence on continuous use intention and deep structure usage but also lowers the negative impact of security concerns on them. The research model explains a substantial variance in continuous use intention (i.e., 40%) and deep structure usage (i.e., 32%). The paper provides theoretical implications as well as practical implications to healthcare managers and providers to improve patient portal deep structure usage and sustained use for user retention.

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  • Murad Moqbel & Barbara Hewitt & Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah & Rosann M. McLean, 2022. "Sustaining Patient Portal Continuous Use Intention and Enhancing Deep Structure Usage: Cognitive Dissonance Effects of Health Professional Encouragement and Security Concerns," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 24(5), pages 1483-1496, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:infosf:v:24:y:2022:i:5:d:10.1007_s10796-021-10161-5
    DOI: 10.1007/s10796-021-10161-5
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