Using Digital Health in a Postoperative Setting After Major Surgery: Survey Study

Digital health technologies are transforming healthcare, offering new ways to improve patient outcomes and enhance efficiency. Remote clinical monitoring (RCM), which uses digital technologies such as wearable devices and mobile apps to monitor patients outside of the traditional healthcare settings such as a hospital, holds significant potential for supporting post-operative care, especially in the context of faster hospital discharge after major surgery. Major surgery involves procedures on organ systems, such as cancer resections, organ transplants, and lung or abdominal surgeries. However, despite their promise, the successful implementation of these technologies into clinical practice requires a thorough understanding of the perspectives of the end user, being the patient. Patients' comfort, engagement, and perceptions about digital health solutions, such as self-management tools and remote monitoring pathways, are essential to ensuring these technologies are both effective and widely accepted.

• Ability of patients to use technology to process and critically evaluate health information [Срок оценки: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
• Patients' understanding of health concepts, their health status, and risk factors [Срок оценки: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
• Patients' perception of data security and control over personal health data [Срок оценки: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
• Patients' motivation to use digital services for managing postoperative health [Срок оценки: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
• Patients' access to and trust in reliable digital health services [Срок оценки: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
• The extent to which digital health services meet patients' individual needs and preferences [Срок оценки: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
• Acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of using digital health by means of implementation outcome measures AIM, IAM, and FIM [Срок оценки: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
• Digital readiness [Срок оценки: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]
• External validation of the digital health readiness questionnaire [Срок оценки: During a follow-up consultation within one year after major surgery]