Factors Influencing Adoption and Use of Telemedicine Services in Rural Areas of China: Mixed Methods Study

Yumeng Du   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Qiru Zhou   ^{2 *} , MD ;   Weibin Cheng   ^{1, 3 *} , MD ;   Zhang Zhang   ^{4, 5} , MSc ;   Samantha Hoelzer   ⁴ , MSc ;   Yizhi Liang   ^{6, 7} , MSc ;   Hao Xue   ⁸ , PhD ;   Xiaochen Ma   ⁹ , PhD ;   Sean Sylvia   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Junzhang Tian   ¹ , MD ;   Weiming Tang   ^{1, 6, 10} , MD, PhD

¹ Institute for Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Application, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, China

² Internet Hospital, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, China

³ School of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

⁴ Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

⁵ Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

⁶ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Project-China, Guangzhou, China

⁷ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States

⁸ Stanford Center for China’s Economy and Institutions, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

⁹ China Center for Health Development Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China

¹⁰ Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

*these authors contributed equally