Table 1 Attitudes among three types of user toward the implementation of inter-hospital EPR exchange, descriptive statistics, factor analyses, and Bivariate GLM test (25 comprehensive questionnaire items of the attitudes)

Privacy of patient may be violated ^a

Concern ^g

Should protect privacy through the conditional implementation by consent of patient ^{b ***}

Intention ^h

Supporting the promotion of inter-hospital electronic patient records exchange ^{c **}

Intention

User interface may affect the willingness to use the System ^{d ***}

Function ⁱ

Comprehensive functions will increase the willingness to use the System ^e

Function

The exchange system may have the data security problem

Concern

Handling the exchange data increases work load

Concern

Would like to share my orders with physicians in other hospitals

Intention

Expect the System to provide more comprehensive patient records

Intention

Can increase quality of health care ^{f **}

Intention

Can change habit of handwriting in medical records to avoid misunderstanding

Concern

Can reduce repeated lab tests

Intention

Can increase efficiency of diagnosis and treatment

Intention

Concern about patient’s potential misunderstanding for the content of medical records

Concern

Will benefit patient through continuing health care

Intention

Will bring convenience to medical records operation

Intention

Will save storage space for medical records

Intention

May save manpower

Intention

May increase efficiency of medical records management

Intention

Understand the function of electronic patient records exchange

Function

May improve physician and patient relationship

Function

Do not care about the leak of personal medical information

Intention

Do not mind if physicians obtain my information through electronic exchange in case of a medical need

Intention

Exchanging hospitals will confidentially protect patient information

Concern

Electronic patient records provided by this system are reliable and safe

Concern