The utilization of information technologies in the health sector has rapidly increased in developed countries and developing countries like Indonesia. Accordingly, this study investigates the role of four readiness categories, including core, engagement, societal, and, structural in adopting e-health in Regional Public Hospitals (RPH) in Padang, Indonesia. This proposed paper presented the survey technique’s quantitative research and distributed self administrated questionnaires to hospital information systems users in the purposive sampling technique. The data obtained were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and PLS 3.0 software to test hypotheses. Finally, the study tested four hypotheses, and all of them significantly influenced the adoption of e-health in RPH. Additionally, in adopting e-health, core, engagement, societal and structural readiness were identified as important factors that influenced the readiness model of e-health implementation in public hospitals. Some issues are related to adopting e-health in developing countries and public hospitals, especially e-readiness and Information Communication Technology (ICT) planning. The research conclusion and the further research-related parties were described in the final section of this paper.

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