Barriers of Adopting Medical Information Technology: A Survey Study of Medical Staff Opinions’ In Kirkuk Hospitals

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to identify the barriers that facing the medical staff in three hospitals in Kirkuk. The survey approach was adopted in the study via preparing a questionnaire to collect the data. Data were collected from 199 medical staff memebers in three hospitals in Kirkuk.The main result of the empirical study is that there are eight barriers of adopting IT are technical barriers, financial barriers, technical support and training barriers, organizational barriers, support and motivations of peers and top management, increasing of time work barriers, system knowledge barriers, and barriers of unsuitable time to implement new IT. The main recommendation is that the top management of health organizations should consider these barriers and pay attention to their effects. The main contribution of this study is introducing a classification of IT barriers based on the opinions of Iraqi medical staff members.  The empirical impact of this study focuses on enabling the health organizations in facing the IT barriers and reduces their effects during adopting medical IT.