TY - JOUR AU - Cook, Erica J. AU - Randhawa, Gurch AU - Sharp, Chloe AU - Ali, Nasreen AU - Guppy, Andy AU - Barton, Garry AU - Bateman, Andrew AU - Crawford-White, Jane PY - 2016 DA - 2016/04/19 TI - Exploring the factors that influence the decision to adopt and engage with an integrated assistive telehealth and telecare service in Cambridgeshire, UK: a nested qualitative study of patient ‘users’ and ‘non-users’ JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 137 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - There is a political drive in the UK to use assistive technologies such as telehealth and telecare as an innovative and efficient approach to healthcare delivery. However, the success of implementation of such services remains dependent on the ability to engage the wider population to adopt these services. It has been widely acknowledged that low acceptance of technology, forms a key barrier to adoption although findings been mixed. Further, it remains unclear what, if any barriers exist between patients and how these compare to those who have declined or withdrawn from using these technologies. This research aims to address this gap focusing on the UK based Cambridgeshire Community Services Assistive Telehealth and Telecare service, an integrated model of telehealth and telecare. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1379-5 DO - 10.1186/s12913-016-1379-5 ID - Cook2016 ER -