title: Acceptance by laypersons and medical professionals of the personalized eHealth platform, eHealthMonitor.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Often, eHealth services are not accepted because of factors such as eHealth literacy or trust. Within this study, eHealthMonitor was evaluated in three European countries (Germany, Greece, and Poland) by medical professionals and laypersons with respect to numerous acceptance factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Questionnaires were created on the basis of factors from literature and with the help of scales which have already been validated. A qualitative survey was conducted in Germany, Poland, and Greece.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The eHealth literacy of all participants was medium/high. Laypersons mostly agreed that they could easily become skillful with eHealthMonitor and that other people thought that they should use eHealthMonitor. Amongst medical professionals, a large number were afraid that eHealthMonitor could violate their privacy or the privacy of their patients. Overall, the participants thought that eHealthMonitor was a good concept and that they would use it.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The main hindrances to the use of eHealthMonitor were found in trust issues including data privacy. In the future, more research on the linkage of all measured factors is needed, for example, to address the question of whether highly educated people tend to mistrust eHealth information more than people with lower levels of education.
authors.affiliation: a Chair of Medical Informatics , Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg , Erlangen , Germany.
authors.forename: Lena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Griebel
authors.affiliation: b Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Public Health, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg , Erlangen , Germany.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kolominsky-Rabas
authors.affiliation: b Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Public Health, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg , Erlangen , Germany.
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schaller
authors.affiliation: c Kardiosystem Sp. z.o.o., Medicalgorithmics S.A ., Warsaw , Poland.
authors.forename: Jakub
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Siudyka
authors.affiliation: c Kardiosystem Sp. z.o.o., Medicalgorithmics S.A ., Warsaw , Poland.
authors.forename: Radoslaw
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sierpinski
authors.affiliation: d HealthWatch Sa , Thessaloniki , Greece.
authors.forename: Dimitrios
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Papapavlou
authors.affiliation: d HealthWatch Sa , Thessaloniki , Greece.
authors.forename: Aliki
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Simeonidou
authors.affiliation: a Chair of Medical Informatics , Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg , Erlangen , Germany.|e University Hospital Erlangen , Erlangen , Germany.
authors.forename: Hans-Ulrich
authors.initials: HU
authors.lastname: Prokosch
authors.affiliation: a Chair of Medical Informatics , Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg , Erlangen , Germany.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sedlmayr
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D003219:Confidentiality; D054626:Consumer Health Information; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D057220:Health Literacy; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*; D035502:Trust
keywords: eHealth; eHealth literacy; evaluation; medical informatics; technology acceptance