Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Formative Research
Date Submitted: Apr 17, 2020
Open Peer Review Period: Apr 17, 2020 - Jun 12, 2020
Date Accepted: Oct 15, 2021
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Implementing smart health solution for the aging population in China: Stakeholder Mapping and power analysis
ABSTRACT
Background:
Facing COVID 19, governments around the world have high incentives to improve healthcare efficiency but limited resources to make the necessary infrastructure transformation.
Objective:
The paper aims to find out how foreign tech companies can navigate and implement smart home care for elderly users in China.
Methods:
I conducted interviews with key stakeholders – government, tech companies, doctors and individual users of smart health solutions. Key insights from stakeholders were summarized to analyse the incentives and barriers to deploy telehealth solutions.
Results:
Smart health solutions are designed to assist healthcare providers to realize the triple aim of reducing healthcare cost, improving healthcare quality including staff and patient experience. To fully realize the potential of smart health devices, heavy infrastructure investment is in need beforehand. A mature business model incorporating collaboration between various stakeholders and industrial partners is also demanded by the industry to make such investment for infrastructure.
Conclusions:
Governments have high interest and significant influence on building the necessary infrastructure for smart health solution implementation in China. Industrial actors have high interest and medium level of power for smart health solution implementation. Users have high interest but lower level of power for the usage of smart health solutions. Doctors have low interest and medium level of power for smart health solutions implementation.
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