| dc.description.abstract | The global demographic trend into an aging society, becoming more and more elderly population, changing in disease patterns, chronic diseases also increased rapidly, however, with the information and communications technology, physical measurement techniques, and health care equipment development rapidly to facilitate remote health care services industry and the market’’s rapid growth.
1995, Department of Health of Taiwan began to promote a lot of telecare pilot program, Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2006 to 2008 to promote a series of plans for health care services aimed establishing demonstration systems at elder healthcare, enhancing Taiwan’’s elder quality of life and promote telecare services industry. Most domestic telecare research emphasizes the scientific level, focus on building IT platforms and systems, less to the user’’s point of view, and lack of the humane care needs.
In this study, the ＂Technology Acceptance Model＂ (TAM) as the basic architecture, coupled with comparative advantages, including convenience and cost, and product attributes, including complexity, word of mouth, perceived price, and medical professions, develope a model for this research and the scale.
The results showed that in addition to ＂perceived ease of use → perceived usefulness＂ and ＂complexity → use of intent＂ test result is not significant, all other test were significantly, research hypotheses also are supported. Affecting consumer adoption of telecare services the most important factor for the ＂perceived ease of use＂ and ＂perceived price＂, and then are ＂word of mouth＂, ＂medical profession＂, ＂perceived usefulness＂, ＂comparative advantage＂ ( indirect effects).
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