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Factors Affecting Clinician Readiness to Adopt Smart Home Technology for Remote Health Monitoring: A Systematic Review
JMIR Aging, Vol.7, pp.1-25
2024
PMID: 39012852
Abstract
Background: The population of older adults across the world continues to increase, placing higher demands on primary health care and long-term care. The costs of housing older people in care facilities have economic and societal impacts which are unsustainable without innovative solutions. Many older people wish to remain independent in their homes and age-in-place. Assistive technology such as health-assistive smart homes with clinician monitoring could be a widely adopted alternative to aged care facilities in the future. Whilst studies have found that older persons have demonstrated a readiness to adopt health-assistive smart homes, little is known about clinician readiness to adopt this technology to support older adults to age as independently as possible.
Objective: The purpose of this systematic review was to identify the factors that affect clinician readiness to adopt smart home technology for remote health monitoring.
Methods: The review protocol was registered with the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO, CRD42020195989) prior to the commencement of the database searches. This review was conducted in accordance with the Joanna Briggs Institute Methodology for Systematic Reviews and followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines for reporting.
Results: Several factors affected clinicians' perspectives on their readiness to adopt smart home technology for remote health monitoring including challenges such as patient privacy and dignity, data security, and ethical use of 'invasive' technologies. Perceived benefits included enhancing the quality of care and outcomes.
Conclusion: Clinicians including nurses reported both challenges and benefits to adopt smart home technology for remote health monitoring. Clear strategies and frameworks to allay fears and overcome professional concerns and misconceptions form key parts of the Readiness to Adoption Pathway proposed. The use of more rigorous scientific methods and reporting is needed to advance the state of the science.
Clinicaltrial: The review protocol was registered with the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO, CRD42020195989) prior to the commencement of the database searches.
Details
- Title
- Factors Affecting Clinician Readiness to Adopt Smart Home Technology for Remote Health Monitoring: A Systematic Review
- Authors
- Gordana Dermody - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - NursingDaniel Wadsworth - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - NursingMelissa Dunham - Edith Cowan UniversityCourtney Glass - Edith Cowan UniversityRoschelle Fritz - Washington State University Vancouver
- Publication details
- JMIR Aging, Vol.7, pp.1-25
- Publisher
- JMIR Publications, Inc.
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.2196/64367
- ISSN
- 2561-7605
- PMID
- 39012852
- Copyright note
- © Gordana Dermody, Daniel Wadsworth, Melissa Dunham, Courtney Glass, Roschelle Fritz. Originally published in JMIR Aging (https://aging.jmir.org), 05.12.2024. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Aging, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://aging.jmir.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
- Organisation Unit
- Healthy Ageing Research Cluster; School of Health - Nursing
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991048886602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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