Exploring Attitudes of Physicians towards the implementation of Mobile Health technology in Saudi Arabia

This study aims to explore Attitudes of Physicians towards the implementation of Mobile Health technology in SaudiArabia. In order to fulfil such aim, qualitative methodology was adopted and textual data were collected from 12physicians who work in King Fahad General Hospital Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. The gathered data were analysed throughusing thematic analysis. Three themes were identified (i.e. Benefits of m-health adoption, Challenges of m-healthadoption, and attitudes of medical staff following the application of m-health on their performance). The benefitsof m-health include making remote patient monitoring possible and easy, improves provider communication andcoordination, and Gives patients faster access to providers and care. The challenges of m-health include issues relatedto its usability, system integration, data security and privacy, network access, and reliability. The attitudes ofmedical staff following the application of m-health on their performance are divided into positive and negativeattitudes. Positive attitudes that connect between m-health and Increasing performance instead of documentation,and negative attitudes that connect between decreasing performance and m-health due to time consuming and itneeds training courses. The findings of this study cannot be generalised to the whole population due to limitations interms of sample size.