Rural Perspectives on Digital Health in Cardiovascular Care: Qualitative Study of Interviews With Rural and Rural-Serving Primary Care Providers and Cardiologists.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital health technologies, such as telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and smartphone apps, have the potential to reduce access disparities faced by rural patients with cardiovascular disease, but little is known about rural health care providers' perspectives on adopting digital health in their practice.

Objective

This study used diffusion of innovations theory as a guiding framework to interpret interview findings on rural and rural-serving health care providers' perspectives on the use of digital health to deliver rural cardiovascular care.

Methods

We conducted semistructured interviews with rural and rural-serving health care providers, including primary care advanced practice providers and physicians, as well as referring cardiologists from 6 prim

SUBMITTER: Burchim S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12639339 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature