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Assessment of functionalities and attitude toward telemedicine for patients with cardiovascular disease

INTRODUCTION: Many patients with cardiovascular diseases are only seen by a physician once or twice a year unless urgent symptoms. Recent years have shown an increase in digital technologies to follow patients remotely, that is, telemedicine. Telemedicine can be supportive for follow-up of patients...

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Autores principales: Knaepen, Lieselotte, Falter, Maarten, Scherrenberg, Martijn, Dendale, Paul, Desteghe, Lien, Heidbuchel, Hein
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10201530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37223773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076231176941
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author Knaepen, Lieselotte
Falter, Maarten
Scherrenberg, Martijn
Dendale, Paul
Desteghe, Lien
Heidbuchel, Hein
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Falter, Maarten
Scherrenberg, Martijn
Dendale, Paul
Desteghe, Lien
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description INTRODUCTION: Many patients with cardiovascular diseases are only seen by a physician once or twice a year unless urgent symptoms. Recent years have shown an increase in digital technologies to follow patients remotely, that is, telemedicine. Telemedicine can be supportive for follow-up of patients at continuous risk. This study investigated patients’ attitude toward telemedicine, the defined features they consider important and future willingness to pay. METHODS: Cardiology patients with various types of prior telemedicine follow-up or who never had a telemonitoring follow-up were included. A new self-developed survey was implemented electronically and took 5–10 min to complete. RESULTS: In total, 231 patients (191 telemedicine [T] and 40 controls [C]), were included. Most participants owned a smartphone (84.8%) and only 2.2% of the total participants did not own any digital device. The most important feature of telemedicine cited in both groups was personalization (i.e., personalized health tips based on medical history, 89.6%; personalized feedback on entered health parameters 86.1%). The most important motivating factor for the use of telemedicine is recommendation by a physician (84.8%), while the reduction of in-person visits is a minor reason (24.7%). Only half of the participants (67.1%) would be willing to pay for telemedicine tools in the future. CONCLUSION: Patients with cardiovascular disease have a positive attitude to telemedicine, especially when it allows for more personalized care, and when it is advocated by the physician. Participants expect that telemedicine becomes part of reimbursed care. This calls for interactive tools with proven efficacy and safety, while guarding unequal access to care.
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spelling pubmed-102015302023-05-23 Assessment of functionalities and attitude toward telemedicine for patients with cardiovascular disease Knaepen, Lieselotte Falter, Maarten Scherrenberg, Martijn Dendale, Paul Desteghe, Lien Heidbuchel, Hein Digit Health Original Manuscript INTRODUCTION: Many patients with cardiovascular diseases are only seen by a physician once or twice a year unless urgent symptoms. Recent years have shown an increase in digital technologies to follow patients remotely, that is, telemedicine. Telemedicine can be supportive for follow-up of patients at continuous risk. This study investigated patients’ attitude toward telemedicine, the defined features they consider important and future willingness to pay. METHODS: Cardiology patients with various types of prior telemedicine follow-up or who never had a telemonitoring follow-up were included. A new self-developed survey was implemented electronically and took 5–10 min to complete. RESULTS: In total, 231 patients (191 telemedicine [T] and 40 controls [C]), were included. Most participants owned a smartphone (84.8%) and only 2.2% of the total participants did not own any digital device. The most important feature of telemedicine cited in both groups was personalization (i.e., personalized health tips based on medical history, 89.6%; personalized feedback on entered health parameters 86.1%). The most important motivating factor for the use of telemedicine is recommendation by a physician (84.8%), while the reduction of in-person visits is a minor reason (24.7%). Only half of the participants (67.1%) would be willing to pay for telemedicine tools in the future. CONCLUSION: Patients with cardiovascular disease have a positive attitude to telemedicine, especially when it allows for more personalized care, and when it is advocated by the physician. Participants expect that telemedicine becomes part of reimbursed care. This calls for interactive tools with proven efficacy and safety, while guarding unequal access to care. SAGE Publications 2023-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10201530/ /pubmed/37223773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076231176941 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work as published without adaptation or alteration, without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Desteghe, Lien
Heidbuchel, Hein
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title_short Assessment of functionalities and attitude toward telemedicine for patients with cardiovascular disease
title_sort assessment of functionalities and attitude toward telemedicine for patients with cardiovascular disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10201530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37223773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076231176941
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