# Technology Acceptance in Healthcare: A Systematic Review
## 5 Discussion
Hence, further research may consider this prospective gap and try to discover the acceptance of other technologies by various user groups. Moreover, the literature witnessed extensive work to explore the acceptance of telemedicine, mobile applications, cloud computing, and wearable electronic devices by patients and the general population as non-healthcare workers. This finding can be explained by the need to understand the influence of innovativeness, trust, and anxiety on regular users' acceptance. For instance, a user needs to be innovative to try a new smartwatch or mobile application without fear of making mistakes and trust that the technology will not make his/her data public or breach the confidentiality terms. Addressing the origin of publications can help to recognize a research gap in a specific country or region within particular subject areas. It helps to improve the research directionsand create extra motivations for researchers. The results showed no publications regarding technology acceptance in healthcare within the Central and South American regions. This provides a research gap that is required to be filled by the researchers in these regions. This result can also indicate that technology implementation in the healthcare domain is rare in these two regions. By looking into the developing regions, Arab and African countries need to expand the research in technology acceptance. Despite the advanced healthcare services and the increasing use of information technologies across many Arab countries, the lack of technology acceptance research exists, specifically in the healthcare domain. Taiwan recorded 20.27% of the analyzed studies, which makes up almost 40% of the total number of studies in Asia. This might be an outcome for the well-established healthcare systems in Taiwan [81]. In contrast, China and South Korea's results are shocking compared to the boom in information technologies in these two countries. These results could be a gap that referred to the language with no assurance, especially that many scholars are publishing their research using their mother-tongue languages. Therefore, more research studies can be conducted to understand the enablers and barriers to adopting various healthcare technologies in China and South Korea. Regarding the years of publication, the results indicated a fluctuation in the number of studies per year. The number of research articles has increased from 4 studies in 2010 to an average of 17 studies from 2012 to 2018. The hike could refer to the increased focus on telemedicine, electronic health records, cloud computing, and mobile applications. With 27 studies conducted in Taiwan and 17 in the USA, both countries have significantly encouraged the observed increase. Finally, the remarkable drop in the number of studies from 2017 to 2019 does not support technology acceptance literature. The current need to adopt new technologies and improve healthcare services opens the door for more studies to explain technology acceptance. It is expected that the number of studies will increase due to the outbreak of COVID-19 that was identified in December 2019 in China and has resulted in the deaths of thousands of human beings worldwide [82; 83].