Key Stakeholder Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Remote Monitoring Technologies: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Analysis

Fahad Mujtaba Iqbal, Meera Joshi, Sadia Khan, Mike Wright, Hutan Ashrafian, Ara Darzi, Fahad Mujtaba Iqbal, Meera Joshi, Sadia Khan, Mike Wright, Hutan Ashrafian, Ara Darzi

Abstract

Background: The implementation of novel digital solutions within the National Health Service has historically been challenging. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a greater push for digitization and for operating remote monitoring solutions. However, the implementation and widespread adoption of this type of innovation have been poorly studied.

Objective: We aim to investigate key stakeholder barriers and facilitators to implementing remote monitoring solutions to identify factors that could affect successful adoption.

Methods: A mixed methods approach will be implemented. Semistructured interviews will be conducted with high-level stakeholders from industry and academia and health care providers who have played an instrumental role in, and have prior experience with, implementing digital solutions, alongside the use of an adapted version of the Technology Acceptance Model questionnaire.

Results: Enrollment is currently underway, having started in February 2022. It is anticipated to end in July 2022, with data analysis scheduled to commence in August 2022.

Conclusions: The results of our study may highlight key barriers and facilitators to implementing digital remote monitoring solutions, thereby allowing for improved widespread adoption within the National Health Service in the future.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05321004; https://ichgcp.net/clinical-trials-registry/NCT05321004.

Keywords: barriers; digital solutions; digitization; health care industry; health plan implementation; implementation; implementation science; mobile health; remote monitoring; stakeholder.

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: AD is chair of the Health Security initiative, and HA is chief scientific officer at Flagship Pioneering UK Ltd. Flagship Pioneering had no role in the development, conduct, or analysis of the study.

©Fahad Mujtaba Iqbal, Meera Joshi, Sadia Khan, Mike Wright, Hutan Ashrafian, Ara Darzi. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols (https://www.researchprotocols.org), 21.07.2022.

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