altAssociate Professor Mirou Jaana is the lead investigator in a research program funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for an amount of $52,336, and entitled “Adoption and Use of an Expert System: User Acceptance and Usage Oucomes”. Her co-investigators are Full Professors Doug Angus (Telfer School of Management), Guy Paré (HEC Montréal) and Claude Sicotte (Université de Montréal).

This research aims at examining the social and behavioural factors that influence the adoption of an expert telemonitoring system by patients with heart failure. It will also assess how the patients accept and use this system and compare the factors leading to its adoption in home settings and retirement homes.