Older adults with a chronic health condition (e.g. hypertension) use various self-management methods. Healthcare technologies have the potential to support health self-management. However, it is necessary to understand the acceptance of these technologies as a precursor to older adults’ adoption and integration into their health plan. Our focus was on the factors older adults with hypertension initially consider when introduced to three new healthcare technologies that might support their health self-management. We compared their considerations for a blood pressure monitor, an electronic pillbox and a multifunction robot to simulate incrementally more complex technologies. Twenty-three participants (aged 65–84) completed four questionnaires and a semi-structured interview. The interview transcripts were analysed using a thematic analysis approach. We identified the factors that were frequently mentioned among the participants for each of the three healthcare technologies. The factors that older adults initially considered were familiarity, perceived benefits, perceived ease of use, perceived need for oneself, relative advantage, complexity and perceived need for others. Upon further reflection, participants considered advice acceptance, compatibility, convenience, facilitating conditions, perceived usefulness, privacy, subjective norm, and trust. We integrated the factors that older adults considered into the Healthcare Technology Acceptance Model (H-TAM), which elucidates the complexity of healthcare technology acceptance and provides guidance for future explorations.

患有慢性健康问题（例如高血压）的老年人使用各种自我管理方法。医疗保健技术有潜力支持健康自我管理。然而，有必要了解这些技术的接受程度，作为老年人采用和纳入其健康计划的先导。我们的重点是患有高血压的老年人在引入三种可能支持其健康自我管理的新医疗技术时最初考虑的因素。我们比较了他们对血压计、电子药盒和多功能机器人的考虑，以模拟逐渐复杂的技术。 23 名参与者（65-84 岁）完成了四份问卷和半结构化访谈。使用主题分析方法对访谈记录进行了分析。我们针对这三种医疗保健技术确定了参与者经常提到的因素。老年人最初考虑的因素是熟悉程度、感知到的好处、感知到的易用性、感知到的自身需求、相对优势、复杂性和感知到的对他人的需要。经过进一步反思，参与者考虑了建议接受度、兼容性、便利性、便利条件、感知有用性、隐私、主观规范和信任。我们将老年人考虑的因素整合到医疗保健技术接受模型（H-TAM）中，阐明了医疗保健技术接受的复杂性，并为未来的探索提供指导。