Rural Perspectives on Digital Health in Cardiovascular Care: Qualitative Study of Interviews With Rural and Rural-Serving Primary Care Providers and Cardiologists

Rural health care providers recognize the many advantages of using digital health in caring for patients with cardiovascular disease but find that digital health is often complex and incompatible with their needs and the needs of their patients. There may be a disconnect between the potential of digital health and how it works in practice, as evidenced by the cycles of adoption and discontinuance of digital health technologies described by rural health care providers. Future rural digital health interventions in cardiovascular care should take into consideration specific complexities and incompatibilities in the rural context.