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Habit or Utility: A Key Choice Point in Promoting the Adoption of Telehealth in China
Joint Authors
Liu, Sifeng
Fang, Zhigeng
Fan, Yun
Liu, Jun
Javed, Saad Ahmed
Source
Issue
Vol. 2020, Issue 2020 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2020-07-04
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Telehealth, as an indispensable means of technical support in the Healthy China Strategy, currently has less than 20 percent adoption rate in China despite a great deal of government policies and investments.
In the current study, to analyse the influencing factors behind doctors’ and patients’ adoption of telehealth, an asymmetric dynamic evolutionary game model of doctor-patient behaviour selection was established.
Based on the model solution, the evolutionarily stable strategies that emerge in different situations were analysed.
The results show that it is difficult for the adoption of telehealth in China to keep pace with coverage due to the “dual low” nature of telehealth: both doctors’ utility from telehealth and patients’ telehealth cost threshold are too low to incentivize adoption.
The strategy to promote the adoption of telehealth in China should include providing adequate training for doctors and patients on the use of telehealth technology, rewarding doctors who provide telehealth services and raising the threshold cost of patient’s telehealth adoption.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Fan, Yun& Liu, Sifeng& Liu, Jun& Javed, Saad Ahmed& Fang, Zhigeng. 2020. Habit or Utility: A Key Choice Point in Promoting the Adoption of Telehealth in China. Complexity،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1142234
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Fan, Yun…[et al.]. Habit or Utility: A Key Choice Point in Promoting the Adoption of Telehealth in China. Complexity No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1142234
American Medical Association (AMA)
Fan, Yun& Liu, Sifeng& Liu, Jun& Javed, Saad Ahmed& Fang, Zhigeng. Habit or Utility: A Key Choice Point in Promoting the Adoption of Telehealth in China. Complexity. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1142234
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1142234