Research Magazine 2023

Knock! Knock! Is the Doctor In? Impact of Consumer-Facing Health- IT on Health Outcomes Arpit Sharma (PhD Graduate)

Saurabh Gupta (Dissertation Chair) Humayun Zafar (Committee Second) Shankar Banik (Reader)

OVERVIEW

Dr. Arpit Sharma graduated from the PhD program in Business Administration in Summer 2022. His dissertation focuses on the influence of new and innovative technologies on primary care health outcomes such as patient satisfaction, continuity of care, and patient efforts. Its unique contribution is in using Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory to highlight how collective efficacy mediates the relationship between technology use and health behavior. This mixed-methods research involving rapid focus groups furnished a theoretically grounded model that identifies technologies' limitations and contributions to an individual's psychological beliefs. Its essential insights for technology development clarify why some work and some do not.

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