Table 4 Categories, sub-themes and themes

Reminder of pending death

Assessment of potential patient-burden

Shifting from objective measures to assessing priorities for patients

Patients’ capacity to handle the technology

Continuity

Assessment of potential patient-benefit

Coordinated services

HCPs experiences of “getting closer”

Increased possibilities to help

Expectations of patient’s feeling increased safety

Possibilities to reach more patients

Interaction with patients

Implementing a tailored service based on patient’s illness experiences

Medical measuring devices

Messaging

Patient training

Individualized questions

Addressing the religious and spiritual

Individualizing is crucial

Close cooperation facilitates important decisions

Assessments when the patient’s condition changes

Need for clear measures

Cancer-related issues

Knowledge and competence

Lack of experience and personal distress of cancer inhibited professional care

The importance of personal suitability and experience

Training and guiding of HCPs

Cancer coordinator key-role

Work environment interactions

Communication and teamwork in decision-making

Shared responsibility

The service (remote home care?) is little known

Inadequate integration of documentation systems

Prominent organizational challenges questioned the premises of RHC

A shift of increased responsibility to the patients

Multiple service actors challenge the information-flow

General practitioners

Interdisciplinary collaboration at the district level

Home Care Services

Hospital

Limitations in the application

Technological challenges

Possibilities in the application