Telemedical Versus Conventional Heart Patient Monitoring: A Survey Study With German Physicians

Abstract

The perceived drawbacks are attributed to a general uncertainty about the reliability of telemedical systems, in combination with concerns about personal data privacy, security, and loss of control. The reported fear of not being able to correctly use and handle the systems assumes a low usability of devices. To acquaint medical professionals with the benefits and limitations of telemedical systems, telemonitoring and tele-treatment should be included in the education of medical personnel at an early stage.

An exploration of usability issues in telecare monitoring systems and possible solutions: a systematic literature review

“…For 2011 to 2014, we found two studies published in each year. These studies are as follows: 2014 [45,47], 2013 [44,50], 2012 [42,51], and 2011 [41]. We also found one study published in 2017 [48], 2016 [49], 2008 [43] and 2000 [52].…”

“…The results show that the most discussed characteristics of ISO 9126-1 in evaluating the usability of telecare monitoring systems were understandability, which appeared in 9 studies [40][41][42][43][46][47][48]50,51], and attractiveness, which appeared in six studies [40,42,46,[48][49][50]. Moreover, in the ISO 9241-11 model, the usability characteristic of satisfaction was the most discussed, appearing in seven studies [40,[43][44][45][46][47]52], followed by efficiency, which was discussed in four studies [40,46,50,51]. Very few studies have examined the learnability, operability, and effectiveness of telecare monitoring systems.…”

“…From fifteen unique publication sources (journals and conferences), we found 16 papers relevant to this study. We found 10 journal papers [39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48] and five conference papers [49][50][51][52][53]. The selected papers were published in journals that had different focuses of research.…”

“…Based on the topics covered by these journals, we divided these journals and the corresponding studies into four main categories: informatics, nursing, technology and health. Four studies were published in journals with a focus on informatics [39][40][41], two in nursing journals [42,43], four in technology journals [44][45][46][47], and one study in a health journal [48]. Of the conference papers, three studies were published in conferences with a focus on technology [49,50,52], one on health [51] and one on informatics [53].…”

Digital Human Modeling. Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management: Human Modeling

“…While the perceived risk for earthquakes, for example, is specifically related to geothermal energy technology, the broad aloofness towards economic or environmental related risks represent more unspecific fears that were also reported for other energy technologies [23,24], but appear in completely different contexts, such as V2X technologies [25], information and communication technologies [26,27], or, even medical technologies [28,29]. While the perceived risk for earthquakes, for example, is specifically related to geothermal energy technology, the broad aloofness towards economic or environmental related risks represent more unspecific fears that were also reported for other energy technologies [23,24], but appear in completely different contexts, such as V2X technologies [25], information and communication technologies [26,27], or, even medical technologies [28,29].…”