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. 2016 Aug 11;13(8):813. doi: 10.3390/ijerph13080813

Table 2.

Overall distributions of ranking regarding connected health-related benefits and barriers.

Overall Rank (%)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total
CONNECTED HEALTH
Benefits
Better quality of life 21.4 13.4 11.7 14.9 14.3 11.8 12.7 100
Better quality of healthcare 17.6 21.6 15.1 16.4 11.3 12.5 5.6 100
Better financing of healthcare 3.2 10.6 15.2 13.5 14.0 19.2 24.5 100
Avoidance of multiple diagnostic tests 12.8 16.9 14.9 12.9 14.2 14.3 14.2 100
Better relationship between doctors and patients 3.3 8.1 13.8 14.5 19.8 19.1 21.5 100
Increasing knowledge of patients 15.2 13.7 17.3 17.5 15.8 12.5 8.3 100
Location-independent access to healthcare services 26.6 16.0 12.1 10.4 10.9 10.8 13.5 100
Barriers
Costs, financing 12.9 15.3 16.8 17.4 19.2 18.6 - 100
Data security 54.1 17.0 9.8 7.2 6.0 6.0 - 100
Lack of acceptance by doctors 10.1 18.1 23.7 19.0 17.9 11.4 - 100
Lack of acceptance by patients 7.5 20.3 19.6 18.3 17.3 17.2 - 100
Increase of administrative burden 3.7 10.3 13.5 22.3 25.4 24.9 - 100
Lack of technical prerequisites 11.9 19.1 16.8 16.0 14.4 22.1 - 100