Healthcare Practitioners' Perceptions of mHealth Application Barriers: Challenges to Adoption and Strategies for Enhancing Digital Health Integration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile health (mHealth) applications have transformed healthcare delivery by enhancing accessibility, patient monitoring, and clinician communication. Despite these advantages, significant barriers hinder their adoption among healthcare practitioners, limiting their effectiveness in primary care settings. Understanding these barriers is crucial for optimizing mHealth integration into healthcare systems.

Aim

This study examines healthcare practitioners' perceptions of barriers to mHealth application adoption, with a focus on the Sehaty app (version 1.3) in Saudi Arabia. It aims to identify key challenges, assess their impact on user engagement and system efficiency, and provide insights for enhancing digital health implementation.

Methods

A cross-sectional s

SUBMITTER: Alzghaibi H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11899126 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature