EHealth and telemedicine: Practices and beliefs among healthcare professionals and medical students at a medical university.

ABSTRACT: Digitalization affects almost every aspect of modern daily life including healthcare delivery. Successful adoption and sustainable integration of information technology-based eHealth and telemedicine concepts in clinical practice depend on constant evaluation of end user needs, proficiencies, and preferences. We therefore assessed how current and future healthcare professionals perceived health technology solutions and whether their perceptions differed. We conducted an online survey among a purposive sample of employees and students at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. The structured questionnaire collected self-reported practices and beliefs in the context of eHealth and telemedicine among 905 participants (59.0% females), of which 48.4% were employees and 51.6% were students. P

SUBMITTER: Wernhart A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6394957 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature