Survey Questionnaire

Amaresh Panda (Reveal Health Tech, India)
Sanjay Mohapatra (Batoi Systems Pvt Ltd, India)

The Online Healthcare Community

ISBN: 978-1-83549-141-6, eISBN: 978-1-83549-140-9

Publication date: 8 April 2024

Citation

Panda, A. and Mohapatra, S. (2024), "Survey Questionnaire", The Online Healthcare Community, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 119-120. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83549-140-920241013

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2024 Amaresh Panda and Sanjay Mohapatra. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited


  • (1)

    Availability of various healthcare service offerings like group discounts, customized combo offers, etc. for increasing the functional area of the forum.

  • (2)

    Importance of additional service offerings like daily fitness tips, medicine reminders, health blogs, specialized discussion rooms, etc. for more involvement of users.

  • (3)

    Availability of the system facilitator/moderator to keep the forum run continuously, effectively and report irrelevant/fake contents to keep useful information intact.

  • (4)

    Forum with 24*7 information availability that allow users to execute activities round the clock.

  • (5)

    Need of robust policy and guidelines like functioning activities of online forums, valid prescription to purchase medicine, etc. for smooth and error free function of OHC.

  • (6)

    Authentic and verified user profiles by login through Govt. ID (AADHAAR) or social media accounts that enable the community to become more responsible and reliable.

  • (7)

    Secured and transparent forum with high safety measures like, anti-virus (Firewall) settings, secure online payment gateway, OTP verification, etc.

  • (8)

    Smart, easy and graphically appealing user interface that makes the community responsive and operate with minimal clicks.

  • (9)

    E-commerce services with latest features like ‘add to wish list’, ‘compare services’, ‘add to cart’, etc. using the OHC platform to increase the usage window of the forum.

  • (10)

    Storing and referring past medical records to refer for future treatment activities.

  • (11)

    Participating in consultation and information sharing activities in the OHC to acquire knowledge, disease prevention and connect similar groups.

  • (12)

    Community without any irrelevant contents and dedicated collaboration space for expertise from same area for peer group discussion.

  • (13)

    Importance of superior brand value and useful features of the OHC in motivating users to participate and contribute.

  • (14)

    The customer support service in the OHC is motivating users to interact frequently.

  • (15)

    The payment mode in the OHC is helpful to do any transaction through the online mode.

  • (16)

    Active admin supervision on the forum to remove irrelevant contents that will make the forum appropriate and maximum useful.

  • (17)

    Presence of facilitating Activities like time-to-time engagement, online polls, standard response templates for frequent treatment requests, email and SMS integration for mass communication, etc.

  • (18)

    Option to use advanced customized filters to access the facilities from relevant and preferred activities.

  • (19)

    Incorporation of advanced IT features like video consultation, social media integration, voice typing, prescription upload, etc. to enhance acceptance of the community.

  • (20)

    Having a communication network within the OHC with exclusive spaces for management to discuss confidential strategies for overall.

  • (21)

    Role of positive behavioural intention and word-of-mouth towards services that motivate participations and result in revisits and referrals.

  • (22)

    Provision to rate responses and users and share reviews on related services in the forum in order to make it useful for other members while looking for any information.

  • (23)

    Provision for referral in the social community to encourage customer to involve in online service system.

  • (24)

    Services that are designed for the customer to have complete and better experiences.

  • (25)

    Experience sharing accomplishments to help fellow participants gain knowledge and prepare better to deal with critical health concerns.

  • (26)

    Complete and competitive service offerings for the customers that help to avail variety of facilities to attend all health-related requirements.