Digital services have been found to increase health-related quality of life and several aspects of patient experience. However, to achieve the positive outcomes made possible by digital services, patients need to use the services regularly and diligently.
This whitepaper discusses the adoption of digital services by cancer patients. It presents several hindrances and facilitators of patient adoption and offers concrete steps to promote the use of digital health services by cancer patients. Read the full paper to learn more.
The whitepaper is based on the author’s, Tiitu Lahti, M.Sc. (Tech.), masters thesis on patients’ adoption of a digital health service in cancer treatment at Aalto University School of Science.