Human Factors Influencing the Intention of ICT Appropriation by Healthcare Practitioners: A Survey in Public Centers in Agadir City, South of Morocco

The organization of healthcare is a structure that combines medical and administrative areas. The first is responsible for the care delivery and the second implements procedures and provides tools for the functioning of medical units. This generates various kinds of medical and administrative information. Their Management is increasingly complex (Hodge, 1994). That is why Information Literacy is currently the subject of several strategies of healthcare. The use of Information technology and communication (ICT) in this area is quite recent. Indeed, the first software solution allowing the healthcare organization management appeared late seventies (Eeckman, 2003). The trend is to implement various ways of organizing the delivery of care based on recent developments in the technology (Paré and Sicotte, 2004).


Introduction
The organization of healthcare is a structure that combines medical and administrative areas.The first is responsible for the care delivery and the second implements procedures and provides tools for the functioning of medical units.This generates various kinds of medical and administrative information.Their Management is increasingly complex (Hodge, 1994).That is why Information Literacy is currently the subject of several strategies of healthcare.The use of Information technology and communication (ICT) in this area is quite recent.Indeed, the first software solution allowing the healthcare organization management appeared late seventies (Eeckman, 2003).The trend is to implement various ways of organizing the delivery of care based on recent developments in the technology (Paré and Sicotte, 2004).
The study conducted in Souss Massa Draa province located in south of Morocco (Bennani et al., 2008), attempted to understand the attitude of the most interested actors in the healthcare area, especially those who are involved directly in the process of the patients care:

Abstract
The resistance to Information technology and communication (ICT) usage is a well-known matter in healthcare area.This study proposes a model that explains the intention of ICT appropriation by physicians and nurses who are involved in the process of care.A survey was conducted in public healthcare centers in Agadir city, located in south of Morocco, to examine the proposed model and to confirm factors that affect positively this intention.Decision makers in healthcare organizations and CIO should consider the importance of these factors to boost the intention of practitioners to use and adopt HIS systems.nurses, midwives, and administrators.It highlighted the first finding as far as physicians concern in terms of attitude which authors considered as the first step to e-health when it is positive and to the appropriation of ICT.These results provided a view on the positioning of practitioners, especially specialist physicians, in the field of healthcare in this province, in relation with human factors considered with the three other factors (ICT, Task, and Context) in the Zhang and Li model ( 2004) used for this study.Note that the human factors were tested only by the attitude and the anxiety.For instance, specialist physicians consider that this one is the most important, the ICT comes second, then tasks, and finally the context.

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The healthcare public centers, a field of investigation of this complementary research work, face the same challenge.It is an organization whose principal task is the care of patients.It is also a structure that combines several units: Units of care, administrative, medical technology, pharmacy and logistics.It is therefore a complex organization that generates a variety of information (Gremy, 1987).Its performance increasingly depends on a good information management and its control.This communication attempts to answer the question: What are the human factors that influence the intention of ICT appropriation by practitioners in healthcare organizations, especially public centers?It examines other factors such as Self-efficacy, Image, Will, and Personal innovation that might affect the intention of the appropriation of ICT by individuals, particularly, physicians and nurses working for healthcare organization.The study shows the progress of the research work which still going on currently in Morocco.It focuses on the pubic centers of the city of Agadir, in Souss Massa Draa province, located in south of Morocco.
The first section will define the information system and will outline the concept of Hospital Information System (HIS), its objectives, its stakeholders, its main functions, and will highlight some information technologies and communication used in healthcare organizations.The second one, will define the idea of the intention of ICT appropriation by practitioners, the third one, will draw the research model and will state hypothesis.Before concluding the last section will describe the research methodology and findings, and will illustrate the resulting model.

The Information System of the Healthcare Organizations
The concept of information system is not unambiguous.This is the reason behind each author, emphasizing certain aspects at the expense of others deemed less important, was able to forge its own definition.This multiplicity of definitions reflects the richness of this concept.Davis (1989) incorporates the human factor in this definition, and defines the information system as "a system "user-machine" integrated, which produces information to assist human beings in the management and decision-making."

The Hospital Information System
The Hospital Information System covers all sectors of a hospital (Dinis et al., 2003) and all the information used in a health facility.It provides an integrated management of information and guarantees its coherence.It makes sure that the information is available anywhere and at any time in reasonable delay.It appears as a cornerstone of care, because it can drive the production of this care, it optimizes the resources committed; it reports on the activity and identifies potential improvements.This system can be seen in three ways: (1) Functional approach that is divided into a set of large areas, themselves divided into several functions (medical, logistical, financial, etc.); (2) Structural approach: its organizational division in the unit of care, technical, administrative service; (3) Process approach: it is analyzed as a sequence of events chained with each other, and whose purpose is to produce quality cares.
The HIS is defined as an environment of software and hardware that takes care of all information systems of a hospital.It facilitates the management of medical and administrative information necessary for the production of care, assessing their quality, resource management and control of activities.In other words, it is a system that manages, among other information, medical data and medical record.It is a structure for data transmitted by the different actors of the health system.It concerns different actors that could be grouped into two categories: (1) the internal stakeholders: administrators, physicians, patients, nurses, managers of information systems, etc. working in different area of the hospital (administration, logistics, care unit, medical-technical unit, pharmacy, etc.).( 2) External stakeholders: government ministries and agencies, associations, insurance and industry.
An Health Information System should achieve three objective (Beuscart, 1993): (1) Optimize the management of the activity of care by improving information management within the medical unit, (2) Contribute to a better coordination of medical acts, administrative and logistical performed in the hospital; (3) Comply with the strategy and priorities defined by the management.It performs four main functions: (1) the medical and administrative management: identification, admission, transfer, output management applications, billing, (2) resource management: financial management, staff management, bed management, appointments, supply management, (3) the management of the patient and the medical diagnostics, interrogation, clinical examination, examination, examination therapy, nursing , treatment, intervention, monitoring and prognosis, (4) information management: all the information circulating between the diverse actors involved in HIS and/or using it.Its features are based on the functions of information system of any other organization (Dinis et al., 2003).They are summarized in the collection, storing, processing and communication of information from the hospital.These are related to: (1) Diagnosis by the practitioner; (2) Examinations carried out directly on the patient (the time of its passage through the technical, the reasons for its passage, the practice acts and their results; (3) administrative information (patient's marital status...) and medical (medical history, allergies ...).
After this HIS overview, it is necessary to note that it is widely accepted that a successful appropriation of this kind of system by people offer great potential for healthcare organizations to improve their performance ( Scott, 2007) and earning the trust of their patients (Ammenwerth et al., 2003, Lu et al., 2005).This requires the involvement of people responsible for the promulgation of care.Hence, the need to study the issue of ICT appropriation by staff, especially, physicians and nurses who work for the healthcare public centers, becomes more and more important.The positive contribution of such system to the quality of care depends then mainly on its appropriation by these practitioners throughout the enactment of such care.The following section develops the issue of ICT appropriation.

Appropriation of ICT and HIS
The appropriation of ICT, seen as the way it is used, is a complex phenomenon and it is considered as an important competitive advantage (Orlikowski, 2003).It was defined by DeSanctis and Poole (1994) as the process by which people consider technologies in their practices and it is also seen, as the ultimate goal of the usage process (Proulx, 2001)

Research Hypothetical Model and Hypothesis
Human factors were elucidated by individual factors such as Attitude, Selfefficacy, Anxiety, Image, Commitment, Personal innovation, and Intention (Table 1 in Appendices).The hypothetical research model (Figure 1) gathers these factors that may influence the appropriation of ICT by the actors who intervene in the process of care.It includes the independent variables that enlighten the intention of this appropriation.Furthermore, the intention of the appropriation of ICT is the dependent variable in this model.It is handled as an actual appropriation of these technologies and is understood in terms of frequency of use.In fact, the authors believe that users who adopt the technology accepted it and used it effectively.
Except for the Anxiety that is measured as a binary variable (anxious or not anxious), each of the all other variables was measured using the degree of agreement.For instance, the Attitude as a variable is measured by the means of three items (Bennani et al., 2008): (1) The ICT use for the management and the patient care is a good idea (2) The ICT use for the management and the patient care is beneficial (3) The use of ICT for management and patient care is satisfying.The global hypothesis retained by the authors is: HG: These variables influences positively or negatively the intention of the appropriation of ICT by the actors involved in healthcare.It is broke up into the following hypothesis: HAuto-Ef: Self-efficacy positively influences the intention of the appropriation of ICT by stakeholders involved in the process of healthcare.
HAnxi: Anxiety influences negatively the intention of the appropriation of ICT by the participants in the care process.
HIma: The image influences positively the intention for the appropriation of ICT by the participants involved in the process of care.
HAttitu: The attitude influences positively the intention of the appropriation of ICT by the participants in the care process.
Hvolo: The will positively influences the intention of the appropriation of ICT by the participants in the care process.The actors who are involved directly in the patients care (physicians and nurses) working for the urban health public The actors who are involved directly in the patients care (physicians and nurses) working for the urban health public centers located in the city of Agadir target population for this study.This corresponds to a total of 145 individuals, divided into 37 physicians and 108 nurses as shown in Table 2. Following the preliminary descriptive analysis, a confirmatory analysis is used to check the content validity and reliability of the hypothetical model constructs.First, the reliability of the items used to measure these constructs was checked.The Cronbach's coefficient (α) was used for this issue.Then, the validity of the model was studied using Pearson correlation between these constructs.
Only Attitude, Self-efficacy, Image and Anxiety constructs are retained, their reliability coefficient being higher than the recommended threshold (0.7).The hypothetical research model is then adjusted to construct a new validated one (Figure2).Only four initial hypotheses are used for the test (HAuto_Ef , HIma , HAnxi and HAttitu).HInn_pers and HWill hypotheses are removed since their items showed unreliability.Information Systems,Goteborg 14th, 12-14 , pp.1-13. 5. Bennani, A., Belalia, M., Oumlil, R. (2008), "As Human Factor, the attitude of Healthcare Practitioners is the Primary

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Step for the e-Health: First Outcome of an Ongoing Study in Morocco, CIBIMA online journal, Volume 3, number 4 6.Beuscart, R., Grave, C., Bricoteau, D., Purro, N. (1993) (1989), "Perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and user acceptance of information technology", MIS Quarterly, Vol. 13, N° 3, September, pp. 318-340 12. DeSanctis, G. et Poole, M.S (1994), "Capturing complexity in advanced technology use: Adaptive Structuration theory", Organisation Science, 5 (2), pp 121-146 13.Dinis, A., Silva, J-L., Sigal, R., Lottin, P., (2003). " ______________ Az-Eddine Bennani, Rachid Oumlil and Emmanuel Grenier (2014), Journal of North African Research in Business, Article ID 607571, DOI: 10.5171/2014.607571Physicians, . To explain and predict individual factors of ICT appropriation by healthcare practitioners, Hu et.al (1999), Chau and Hu (2002) evoked the importance of attitude in determining the adoption of telemedicine by physicians.Croteau and Vieru (2002) noted the negative influence of perceived wiliness on the intention of physician working in a large urban healthcare institution.Banderker and Belle (2006) attempted to identify clearly the factors that influence the adoption of mobile technologies by physicians working in the public sector health care.They noted the importance of self-efficacy and skills to adopt this technology.In addition, Pervan and Schaper (2007) confirmed the significant influence of self-efficacy and attitude of Australia for the therapists to use ICT.In 2007, Wu et al. developed a conceptual framework to evaluate the intention of healthcare professionals regarding mobile _________________________________________________________________________________ ______________ Az-Eddine Bennani, Rachid Oumlil and Emmanuel Grenier (2014), Journal of North African Research in Business, Article ID 607571, DOI: 10.5171/2014.607571healthcare systems adoption.They showed that the self-efficacy influenced the intention to use those systems.In a recent research on the acceptance of a HIS by the Greek hospital staff, Aggelidis and Chatzoglou (2009) found that attitude and self-efficacy influenced significantly their behavioral intention to use ICT.

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