@article{Keel:10199,
      recid = {10199},
      author = {Keel, Sara and Schmid, Anja and Keller, Fabienne and  Schoeb, Veronika},
      title = {Investigating the use of digital health tools in  physiotherapy : facilitators and barriers},
      journal = {Physiotherapy theory and practice},
      address = {2022-03},
      number = {ARTICLE},
      pages = {21 p.},
      abstract = {Background

Digital tools are becoming more and more  common in healthcare. Their potential to improve treatment,  monitoring, and coaching in physiotherapy has been  recognized. Yet studies report that the adoption of digital  health tools in ambulatory physiotherapy is rather low and  that their potential is underexploited.
Objective

This  paper aims to investigate how digital health tools in  general, and the mobile health tool physitrackTM (hereafter  the app) more particularly, are used in outpatient  physiotherapy clinics and also to identify what facilitates  or hinders the app’s use.
Methods

The paper is part of a  larger study and adopts an ethnographic approach. It is  based on observational and interview data collected at two  outpatient clinics.
Results

We reveal how physiotherapists  and patients use the app in physiotherapy and identify 16  interdependent factors, on the macro-, meso-, and  micro-level, that either facilitate or hinder its  use.
Conclusions

We argue that a single factor’s  facilitating or hindering impact cannot be grasped in  isolation but needs to be investigated as one piece of a  dynamic interplay. Further qualitative research is  required, especially to shed more light on the app’s  compatibility with physiotherapy practice and use in  therapist-patient interactions.},
      url = {http://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/10199},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2022.2042439},
}