Skip to main content
. 2025 Dec 18;12:e81932. doi: 10.2196/81932

Table 2.

Summary of key enablers and barriers by organizational readiness domains (change efficacy, change commitment, and contextual factors) and the 6 subthemes.


Enabler Barrier
Change commitment

Perceived valence and feasibility
  • Value perceived

  • Alignment on value across departments

  • Perceived as appropriate for general medicine wards

  • Slow roll-out

  • Limited integration

  • Failure to meet expected needs

  • Overreliance on technology

  • Reliability questioned

  • Alarm fatigue or desensitization


Transparency and trust in management
  • Trust in management

  • Active stakeholder engagement

  • Minimal expectations for high involvement

  • Minimal ground-nurse engagement

  • Fear of failure or perception that innovation is not a priority

  • Cultural norms impacting openness

Change efficacy

Shared understanding and readiness to act
  • Good awareness of the initiative

  • Facilitation of interactions between teams


  • Inconsistent communication

  • Misalignments on purpose


Resources, training, and staff capability
  • Ground-up training initiatives

  • Troubleshooting support

  • Delayed training or unclear responsibility for training

  • Insufficient staff or time to engage with new technology

  • Need for external funding

Contextual factors

Innovation culture
  • Sandbox culture

  • Keeping up to date with technology developments

  • Raising staff awareness of technology

  • Complexity of the “sandbox” approach in the clinical setting


Past experiences
  • Prior positive experience with technology

  • Prior negative experience with technology