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.