Telehealth, as an indispensable means of technical support in the Healthy China Strategy, currently has less than 20 percent\nadoption rate in China despite a great deal of government policies and investments. In the current study, to analyse the influencing\nfactors behind doctorsâ?? and patientsâ?? adoption of telehealth, an asymmetric dynamic evolutionary game model of doctor-patient\nbehaviour selection was established. Based on the model solution, the evolutionarily stable strategies that emerge in different\nsituations were analysed. The results show that it is difficult for the adoption of telehealth in China to keep pace with coverage due\nto the â??dual lowâ? nature of telehealth: both doctorsâ?? utility from telehealth and patientsâ?? telehealth cost threshold are too low to\nincentivize adoption. The strategy to promote the adoption of telehealth in China should include providing adequate training for\ndoctors and patients on the use of telehealth technology, rewarding doctors who provide telehealth services and raising the\nthreshold cost of patientâ??s telehealth adoption.
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