ArticleJMIR mHealth and uHealth2018
Social Media Users' Perception of Telemedicine and mHealth in China: Exploratory Study.
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- Social Media and Health Care, Part I: Literature Review of Social Media Use by Health Care Providers.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Review
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- Consumer side economic perception of telemedicine during COVID-19 era: A survey on Bangladesh's perspective.Informatics in medicine unlocked · 2021Review
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- Contents and sentiment analysis of newspaper articles and comments on telemedicine in Korea: Before and after of COVID-19 outbreak.Health informatics journalArticle
- How low-income adults in China perceive health and health management mobile applications.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThe use of telemedicine and mHealth has increased rapidly in the People's Republic of China. While telemedicine and mHealth have great potential, wide adoption of this technology depends on how patients, health care providers, and other stakeholders in the Chinese health sector perceive and accept the technology.
objectiveTo explore this issue, we aimed to examine a social media platform with a dedicated focus on health information technology and informatics in China. Our goal is to utilize the findings to support further research.
methodsIn this exploratory study, we selected a social media platform-HC3i.cn-to examine the perception of telemedicine and mHealth in China. We performed keyword analysis and analyzed the prevalence and term frequency-inverse document frequency of keywords in the selected social media platform; furthermore, we performed qualitative analysis.
resultsWe organized the most prominent 16 keywords from 571 threads into 8 themes: (1) Question versus Answer; (2) Hospital versus Clinic; (3) Market versus Company; (4) Doctor versus Nurse; (5) Family versus Patient; (6) iPad versus Tablet; (7) System versus App; and (8) Security versus Caregiving. Social media participants perceived not only significant opportunities associated with telemedicine and mHealth but also barriers to overcome to realize these opportunities.
conclusionsWe identified interesting issues in this paper by studying a social media platform in China. Among other things, participants in the selected platform raised concerns about quality and costs associated with the provision of telemedicine and mHealth, despite the new technology's great potential to address different issues in the Chinese health sector. The methods applied in this paper have some limitations, and the findings may not be generalizable. We have discussed directions for further research.
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