Table 4.
Ranking of benefits and barriers of eHealth and telemedicine, ordered by total rank.
| Total | Digital Age Group | Gender | Health Profession | Education | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Rank | p Values | ||||
| EHEALTH | |||||||
| Benefits | |||||||
| Better quality of healthcare | 3.4 | 1.8 | 1 | 0.056 | 0.673 | 0.961 | 0.813 |
| Increasing knowledge of patients | 3.5 | 1.9 | 2 | 0.900 | 0.502 | 0.065 | 0.295 |
| Avoidance of multiple diagnostic tests | 3.7 | 2.0 | 3 | 0.001 ** | 0.958 | 0.008 ** | 0.109 |
| Location-independent access to healthcare services | 3.8 | 2.1 | 4 | 0.344 | 0.050 * | 0.280 | 0.049 * |
| Better quality of life | 3.9 | 2.0 | 5 | 0.001 * | 0.075 | 0.471 | 0.041 * |
| Better relationship between doctors and patients | 4.8 | 1.7 | 6 | 0.207 | 0.155 | 0.586 | 0.004 * |
| Better financing of healthcare | 4.9 | 1.8 | 7 | 0.830 | 0.101 | 0.504 | 0.568 |
| Barriers | |||||||
| Data security | 1.9 | 1.4 | 1 | 0.913 | 0.332 | 0.862 | 0.232 |
| Lack of acceptance by doctors | 3.5 | 1.5 | 2 | 0.039 * | 0.003 * | 0.202 | 0.631 |
| Lack of acceptance by patients | 3.7 | 1.6 | 3 | 0.252 | 0.289 | 0.124 | 0.628 |
| Lack of technical prerequisites | 3.7 | 1.7 | 4 | 0.040 * | 0.001 ** | 0.397 | 0.936 |
| Costs, financing | 3.9 | 1.6 | 5 | 0.754 | 0.057 | 0.894 | 0.201 |
| Increase of administrative burden | 4.2 | 1.5 | 6 | 0.111 | 0.174 | 0.121 | 0.523 |
| TELEMEDICINE | |||||||
| Benefits | |||||||
| Location-independent access to healthcare services | 3.2 | 2.1 | 1 | 0.017 * | 0.001 ** | 0.866 | 0.015 * |
| Better quality of healthcare | 3.4 | 1.8 | 2 | 0.463 | 0.037 | 0.565 | 0.642 |
| Better quality of life | 3.6 | 2.1 | 3 | 0.001 ** | 0.006 * | 0.643 | 0.037 * |
| Increasing knowledge of patients | 4.0 | 1.8 | 4 | 0.002 * | 0.095 | 0.036 * | 0.818 |
| Avoidance of multiple diagnostic tests | 4.2 | 1.9 | 5 | 0.001 ** | 0.192 | 0.227 | 0.741 |
| Better financing of healthcare | 4.7 | 1.8 | 6 | 0.063 | 0.019 * | 0.199 | 0.995 |
| Better relationship between doctors and patients | 4.9 | 1.7 | 7 | 0.895 | 0.800 | 0.852 | 0.202 |
| Barriers | |||||||
| Data security | 2.3 | 1.6 | 1 | 0.004 * | 0.052 | 0.550 | 0.280 |
| Costs, financing | 3.5 | 1.7 | 2 | 0.090 | 0.105 | 0.459 | 0.076 |
| Lack of acceptance by doctors | 3.5 | 1.5 | 3 | 0.429 | 0.012 * | 0.135 | 0.872 |
| Lack of technical prerequisites | 3.6 | 1.7 | 4 | 0.391 | 0.001 ** | 0.368 | 0.651 |
| Lack of acceptance by patients | 3.6 | 1.6 | 5 | 0.123 | 0.892 | 0.213 | 0.830 |
| Increase of administrative burden | 4.4 | 1.4 | 6 | 0.353 | 0.047 * | 0.283 | 0.658 |
Note: Mann-Whitney U tests * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.001.