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Introduction: Hospitals are currently facing the critical challenge of using healthcare information technology (IT) to improve healthcare services in response to the recent rapid increase in medical information. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the attitudes of staff members at the Baghdad teaching hospital, who are major users of IT systems in healthcare, as an approach to assessing their readiness to embrace such systems. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study, conducted in the first half of 2022, used a researcher-made questionnaire to examine the attitudes of 461 employees at the Baghdad teaching hospital (selected through stratified sampling) toward the impact of IT on therapeutic, educational, research, and administrative activities in the healthcare system. The reliability of the questionnaire was evaluated by using the split-half method, with a correlation coefficient of 98%. The validity of the questionnaire was assessed with input from various medical experts. The data were then analyzed by using descriptive and analytical statistics (SPSS 23.0). Results: The study found that the participants’ assessment of how IT might speed up diagnosis and treatment was generally positive, with an average score of 3.89. Moreover, the participants rated the effects of IT on increased productivity and medical research as satisfactory, with average evaluations of 3.77 and 3.39, respectively. Conclusion: The positive attitude of the participants indicates that the investigated hospital is appropriate for the implementation and advancement of IT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
