The implementation of camera surveillance in home care : the influence of privacy, trust and power on the willingness of health care professionals to accept in home camera surveillance

Health care organizations are willing to innovate on the application of assistive technology. The appliance of technology is seen as one of the solutions to meet the strong growing need of health care, combined with a decrease of health care professionals. The organizations struggle about the most successful implementation strategy. On the other hand, health care professionals seem not that eager to accept those technologies. We need more practice based knowledge and spread the word, how to implement technology in health care? In this paper the influence of privacy, trust and power on the willingness of care employees to adopt camera surveillance is explored by a semi-structured interview.