Title
Trust in telemedicine portals for rehabilitation care: an exploratory focus group study with patients and healthcare professionals.
Abstract
For many eServices, end-user trust is a crucial prerequisite for use. Within the context of Telemedicine, the role of trust has hardly ever been studied. In this study, we explored what determines trust in portals that facilitate rehabilitation therapy, both from the perspective of the patient and the healthcare professional.We held two focus groups with patients (total n = 15) and two with healthcare professionals (total n = 13) in which we discussed when trust matters, what makes up trust in a rehabilitation portal, what effect specific design cues have, and how much the participants trust the use of activity sensor data for informing treatment.Trust in a rehabilitation portal is the sum of trust in different factors. These factors and what makes up these factors differ for patients and healthcare professionals. For example, trust in technology is made up, for patients, mostly by a perceived level of control and privacy, while for healthcare professionals, a larger and different set of issues play a role, including technical reliability and a transparent data storage policy. Healthcare professionals distrust activity sensor data for informing patient treatment, as they think that sensors are unable to record the whole range of movements that patients make (e.g., walking and ironing clothes).The set of factors that affect trust in a rehabilitation portal are different from the sets that have been found for other contexts, like eCommerce. Trust in telemedicine technology should be studied as a separate subject to inform the design of reliable interventions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1186/s12911-016-0250-2
BMC Med. Inf. & Decision Making
Keywords
Field
DocType
Telemedicine, Trust, Rehabilitation care, Portals, Activity sensors, Design
Health care,Telemedicine,Rehabilitation,Nursing,Rehabilitation care,Knowledge management,Health informatics,Medicine,Focus group
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
1
1472-6947
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.41
20
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lex van Velsen113915.58
Sabine Wildevuur220.41
Ina Flierman320.41
Boris van Schooten492.43
monique tabak596.29
Hermie Hermens616021.87