Accepted for/Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research
Date Submitted: Mar 11, 2024
Date Accepted: Mar 7, 2025
Why Digital Healthcare Self-monitoring: A Qualitative Study of Stakeholders in the Healthcare Ecosystem
ABSTRACT
Background:
Because digital healthcare technologies are used by multiple stakeholders and for various purposes within the healthcare ecosystem, meeting all stakeholder needs poses a significant challenge.
Objective:
The paper aims to explore the different purposes of using digital healthcare self-monitoring.
Methods:
To explore the different purposes of digital self-monitoring, our study draws on 31 in-depth and semi structured interviews. Participants were selected from the healthcare ecosystem, encompassing both micro and macro perspectives on the healthcare ecosystem.
Results:
The research identified eight purposes for using healthcare self-monitoring within the healthcare ecosystem: emancipate (granting patients autonomy), learn (understanding patient symptoms and behaviours), improve (enhancing patient's health), engage (deepening patient involvement), control (managing adherence and symptoms), evaluate (assessing health parameters), innovate (improving interventions, healthcare processes and technology), and generate (driving new initiatives).
Conclusions:
Incorporating these eight purposes into the design and implementation of digital healthcare technology can strengthen the relationship between patients and healthcare providers (primary value), improve the creation of knowledge from patient data (secondary value), and facilitate the redesign of care processes (tertiary value).
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