Fakehinde, Ayomide Clement <br/><br/>
THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE ADOPTION OF TELEMEDICINE BY MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS IN A DEVELOPING NATION USING PERCEIVED RISK ADOPTION MODEL / 
AYOMIDE CLEMENT FAKEHINDE; SUPERVISOR: MEHMET YEŞİLTAŞ 
 - 56 sheets;  31 cm.  Includes CD 
<br/><br/>Thesis (MSc) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research Health Care Organization Management Department 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliography (sheets 43-48) 
<br/><br/> ABSTRACT<br/>Telemedicine aims to fulfil the criteria of today's healthcare customers and has the potential to revolutionise the delivery of healthcare. It helps to boost healthcare quality by reducing the amount of time spent commuting, removing impediments posed by geographic location, offering a variety of communication options to medical professionals, and improving patient outcomes. Telemedicine is an attractive technology to adopt given the current focus placed on lowering healthcare costs, enhancing the delivery of medical treatment to people of all demographics, and satisfying the needs of customers. The overarching purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between health practitioners' perceptions of risk and their intentions to embrace telemedicine as a practise. This investigation was conducted in three Abuja hospitals (National Hospital, Wuse Hospital, and Garki Hospital). The primary demographic of individuals targeted consisted of people working in the medical field, such as doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. A random sampling technique was used to obtain the sample size of 231. Primary data via questionnaire was used to obtain data from respondent. The questionnaire was divided into three sections. There were demographic questions in the first section of the questionnaire. According to the second part of the survey, questions were asked concerning the factors that impact the use of telemedicine. This section had a total of 22 questions. This section includes risk categories including technology, time, social, security and privacy, and FR. The last section focuses on telemedicine as a behavioural strategy as a last resort. The result shows that Technology, social, financial, and security risks influence telemedicine acceptability. TMR didn't affect telemedicine adoption. To encourage medical practitioners to adopt telemedicine, further education-support programmes and development activities are required. These assistance programmes shouldn't merely concentrate on setting telemedicine guidelines and recommendations. Instead of only teaching doctors, all health care stakeholders should be reached. This study's results improve research on telemedicine services.<br/>Keywords: Financial Risk, Security Risk, Social Risk, Telemedicine, Time Risk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Financial risk --Dissertations, Academic<br/>Telecommunication in medicine--Dissertations, Academic