Table 1.
Practitioner attitudes towards telemonitoring
| Number | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| How would you rate your degree of innovativeness?a | ||
| Innovator | 5 | 12.2 |
| Early adopter | 22 | 53.7 |
| Early majority | 9 | 22.0 |
| Late majority | 2 | 4.9 |
| Laggard | 3 | 7.3 |
| How do you feel about telemonitoring? | ||
| Negative | 6 | 14.7 |
| Neutral | 10 | 24.4 |
| Positive | 25 | 61.0 |
| How would you feel about offering telemonitoring services to your patients? | ||
| Strongly disagree | 2 | 4.9 |
| Disagree | 10 | 24.4 |
| Agree | 17 | 41.5 |
| Strongly agree | 12 | 29.3 |
| How would you feel about patients paying for telemonitoring services? | ||
| Strongly disagree | 4 | 9.8 |
| Disagree | 9 | 22.0 |
| Agree | 18 | 43.9 |
| Strongly agree | 10 | 24.4 |
| What would you like to improve with telemonitoring services? | ||
| Service and treatment quality | 31 | 75.6 |
| Internal processes | 16 | 39.0 |
| Turnover | 9 | 22.0 |
| Total | 41 | 100.0 |
Note: a Item adapted from Rogers 2003 [31]