醫療照護技術的進步，使得國民的平均壽命持續延長，再加上第二次世界大戰後龐大嬰兒潮族群陸續步入老年期，使得全球高齡人口持續增加。這也代表著未來的社會結構將有非常高的比例是醫療照護服務的高度需求者，對醫療保健的需求也勢必會大幅增加，如此高齡化的社會結構也將使傳統的醫療體系更顯得捉襟見拙，這對目前的健保體系及社會福利都會是非常嚴峻的挑戰。
數位醫療照護服務則是在此情況之下演變而來的產物，在面臨人口老化對傳統醫療結構的威脅，以及資訊網路技術可克服的情境下，目前有許多歐美先進國家，皆已開始注重人口老化之議題，並已經實際地區性的實施數位醫療照護服務計劃，而此創新醫療照護模式也將是未來醫療產業的趨勢。
本研究目的為探討台灣慢性病患對數位醫療照護服務之科技接受度，探討的變數包括效能認知、科技熟悉度、重視自我健康程度，另外加入個人屬性之調和變數，包括性別、年齡、教育程度、居住區域及經濟狀況，探討此五個調和變數對整體模型及變數間之影響。
本研究以國立成功大學附設醫院及台南市立醫院之心血管疾病、氣喘及糖尿病三種慢性疾病患者為訪談對象，共計訪談409位病患，回收問卷409份，無效問卷4份，有效問卷405份，整體的有率回收率為99.02%。
研究結果發現，效能認知的確會對接受意願產生影響；而科技熟悉度及重視自我健康程度也會對效能認知產生影響；但是科技熟悉度及重視自我健康程度與接受意願之間的關係，只會科技熟悉度會對接受意願產生影響，重視自我健康程度對接受意願並無顯著影響。

With the advance of medicine technologies and the baby booms after World War Two, the average age of global populations increases gradually. It means that there will have highly demand for medical services, and the traditional medical system will not afford to handle such problem.
Telemedicine is the product under copying with aging problem. Under facing the threat to traditional medical system and the feasible of technology, many western countries have started paying much attention to global aging issue and implemented some telemedicine services in certain areas. In the future, Telemedicine will be the trend in medical industry.
The main purpose of this study is to discuss the technology acceptance of telemedicine by chronic patients in Taiwan. The discussing variables included perceived usefulness, technology savvy and awareness. In addition, we tested the moderator effects of personal characteristics, including sex, age, education, proximity and economic condition.
The study population included the chronic patients of Cardiology, Diabetes and Asthma in National Cheng Kung University Hospital and Tainan Municipal Hospital. All total of 409 patients were interviewed and returned 409 questionnaires. Of the returned questionnaires, 4 were incomplete and the remaining 405, valid and complete, were used for quantitative analysis. The useable response rate was 99.02%.
The major findings of this study indicated that perceived usefulness have significant effect with behavior intention; technology savvy and awareness also have significant effects with perceived usefulness. As to the relationship of between technology savvy and awareness with behavior intention, the results showed that technology savvy have significant effect with behavior intention, but awareness have no significant effect with behavior intention.

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