The effect of the information systems literacy of emergency health employees on their technology acceptance levels.

Everyone surveyed worked for ambulance and emergency health services in one Turkish city, so the numbers may not describe staff elsewhere or in other parts of the health service. Only 233 of the 600 employees in the population took part, and the survey was voluntary and online, so those who answered may differ from those who did not. Everything was self-reported in the same questionnaire at the same time, so the link between information systems literacy and technology acceptance may partly reflect people answering consistently rather than a real causal path. Because the survey was taken at one point in time, it cannot show that raising someone's information systems literacy would raise their acceptance of the technology. Almost everyone rated their skills and the usefulness of the technology near the top of the scale, which leaves little room to distinguish between people. The authors themselves state the main limitation is that the sample covers only Kayseri and only 112 Emergency Health Services.

The authors state that they received no financial support for the research, authorship or publication of the article, and that they have no potential conflicts of interest to declare. No company or sponsor was involved.

Do not read this as proof that training staff in digital records, or raising their computer skills, will make them accept new technology. It is a single questionnaire survey in one city, where the same people reported both their skills and their attitudes at the same moment, so a link of this kind cannot show which one causes the other.