Table 4.
Enablers and barriers for scaling up digital health innovations on the micro level identified in the workshop and aligned with prior work.
Categorya | Enabler | Barrier |
Social support | Recommendation of the digital health innovation by physicians | —b |
Individual characteristics of end user | — | Lack of motivation to change/adapt (digital innovation fails to elicit behavior) Trust issues (users do not trust the digital innovation to be effective, safe, or useful) Additional work for medical staff (digital innovation does not facilitate but increase the workload of already busy health care professionals) |
Negative associations | — | Physicians perceive digital health innovations as a threat/substitution (digital health innovations as a potential replacement or restriction of professional latitude) |
aAll categories were adopted from Kowatsch et al [3].
bNot available.