Abstract
Electronic health is one of the most popular applications of information and communication technologies and it has contributed immensely to health delivery through the provision of quality health service and ubiquitous access at a lower cost. Even though this mode of health service is increasingly becoming known or used in developing nations, these countries are faced with a myriad of challenges when implementing and deploying e-health services on both small and large scale. It is estimated that the Africa population alone carries the highest percentage of the world’s global diseases despite its certain level of e-health adoption. This paper aims at analyzing the progress so far and the current state of e-health in developing countries particularly Africa and propose a framework for further improvement.
Highlights
Individuals in poor and developing countries have the least access to health services due to low financial resources, lack of infrastructure and other barriers in accessing the needed services [1, 2]
On the e-learning platform, out of forty registered users, twenty users were interviewed after six months of participation and 65% found the system easy to use, 15% found it difficult and 20% were neutral. These results indicate great potentials for the progress of e-health systems in Tanzania
We carried out a review of some e-health systems and strategies in Africa and some other developing countries
Summary
Individuals in poor and developing countries have the least access to health services due to low financial resources, lack of infrastructure and other barriers in accessing the needed services [1, 2]. A total of 2043 citations and 55 articles (15 qualitative and 40 quantitative) were used Their evaluation results suggested the use of more robust e-health practices in developing countries. The method used in the majority of these 13 articles were surveys done in Africa In their finding, the Electronic Medical Record system was the most widely recognized e-health technology tool identified that focused on the quality of healthcare. It was found that ICT progress is not evenly distributed and the author proposed that monitoring of the progress of member countries on ICT digitization needs improvement Another important finding showed that in order to measure the adoption of mobile technologies, mobile phones penetrations are a no longer meaningful indicator in this region. EMR, EHR, Health DHIS2, KenyaEMR, Interna- YES Information system, tional quality care health Electronic health management information management system system (IQCHM), AfyaEHMS System [37] South Africa, Zambia, Uganda, Jamaica [36] Bangladesh
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