Connected Health Devices for Health Care in French General Medicine Practice: Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The integration of Connected Health Devices (CHDs) is growing within mobile health (mHealth) and telemedicine, encouraged by institutions and industries. The idea is to improve lifestyle habits and health behaviors as a preventive goal in an aging population with fewer physicians available. However, their ill-defined place in health care does not promote their use in current medical practice.

Objective

The primary objective of this study was to quantify CHDs' use rate by general practitioners (GPs). A secondary objective was to evaluate their benefits and limitations in usual care.

Methods

A cross-sectional study through an Internet-based survey was addressed to French GPs via regional medical unions and continuous education agencies, supplemented with an i

SUBMITTER: El Amrani L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5754567 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature