U-Healthcare Solutions’ Acceptance for Adults

ABSTRACT

Most u-healthcare applications were developed based on five important dimensions education, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients. The starting point of our research was the need of finding out the way in which the current COVID-19 pandemic influenced the dependency of chronic diseases’ persons over 50 to the M-health and E-health solutions in Romania. We focused on user’s experience and ability to use these systems, starting from the already known Smart-healthcare and U-healthcare ones, as developed in EU’s Horizon 2020 program and the way the new technologies like IoT, Smart Device, and Wearable Technologies as part of U-Healthcare are accepted and used in Romania. The focus group is made up of people aged 50 to 84, and the on-line questionnaire contained issues related to the acceptance of the IoT and the new technologies used in Telemedicine and U-healthcare systems for the prevention and monitoring of the chronic disease’s patients, starting from the influence UX factors. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.