Table 1.

Barriers to telehealth implementation¹⁹

Patient	Clinician	Organisation
Age	Technically challenged staff	Cost
Level of education	Resistance to change	Reimbursement
eHealth/computer literacy	Licensing	Legal liability
Internet bandwidth	Perception of impersonal care	Privacy/confidentiality
Unawareness	Information overload	Security of data
High expectations of users	Interoperability	Effectiveness
Apathy	Poor design	Age of existing equipment
No phone	Language barrier	Efficiency
Socioeconomic status		Profit status
Gender		Organisation size
Preference for personal care		Teaching status
		Implementation models