AUTHOR=Otto Lena , Schlieter Hannes , Harst Lorenz , Whitehouse Diane , Maeder Anthony TITLE=The telemedicine community readiness model—successful telemedicine implementation and scale-up JOURNAL=Frontiers in Digital Health VOLUME=5 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1057347 DOI=10.3389/fdgth.2023.1057347 ISSN=2673-253X ABSTRACT=
To successfully scale-up telemedicine initiatives (TIs), communities play a crucial role. To empower communities fulfilling this role and increase end users' acceptance of TIs, support tools (from now on entitled artifacts) are needed that include specific measures to implement and scale up telemedicine. Addressing this need, the article introduces the Telemedicine Community Readiness Model (TCRM). The TCRM is designed to help decision-makers in communities to create a favorable environment that facilitates the implementation and scale-up of TIs. The TCRM is a practical tool to assess communities