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. 2023 Sep 7;25:e45224. doi: 10.2196/45224

Table 2.

Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis.

Aspects Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats
Patients
  • Accessibility and continuity of care

  • Use and treatment adherence

  • Affordability

  • Patient satisfaction and trust

  • Poor digital literacy

  • Health inequalities and digital divide

  • Improving literacy

  • Improve patient empowerment and self-care

  • Improve equity

  • Tailored solutions and user-centered design

  • Patient buy-in

Providers
  • Collaboration

  • Continuous professional development

  • Decision-making

  • Lack of human resources

  • Poor provider buy-in

  • Lack of support and training

  • High turnover rates

  • Enhancing access to secondary care advice

  • Clinical support tools

  • Provider buy-in

  • Lack of resources and local capacity

Health systems
  • Improved quality of care

  • Data analytics and learning health systems

  • Universal health coverage

  • High costs and inadequate funding

  • Lack of coordination and fragmentation of services

  • Improve quality of care

  • Knowledge generation (research, planning, and delivery)

  • Optimization of resource and finances

  • Learning from best practice and scaling up

  • Resistance to change

  • Lack of governmental support

  • Fraud and misuse

  • Sustainability

Legislation and regulation
  • Governmental support and legislation

  • Digital health regulation and frameworks

  • Lack or inadequate regulation

  • Improve governmental support

  • Legal implications

  • Data ownership and monetization

  • Restrictive regulations

Technology and infrastructure
  • Adoption and innovation fast-track

  • Lack of basic facilities and equipment

  • Poor internet access

  • Poor integration and interoperability

  • Improving basic infrastructure

  • Data linkage

  • Cybersecurity and data privacy