Tegegne Masresha Derese, Wubante Sisay Maru
Department of Health Informatics, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.
Adv Med Educ Pract. 2022 Aug 5;13:821-828. doi: 10.2147/AMEP.S374207. eCollection 2022.
Ethiopia's government has planned to digitize the healthcare industry. However, most implementations fail due to various technological and personnel barriers. As a result, this systematic review aimed to comprehensively examine evidence regarding the barriers to adopting information communication technology in the Ethiopian healthcare system.
This systematic review was conducted by searching the major databases, such as Medline, PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, Google, Google Scholar, and other online databases. The authors looked for, analyzed, and summarized information about barriers to ICT adoption in the healthcare system. This study included nine articles that described barriers to ICT adoption in the Ethiopian healthcare system.
This systematic review identified 15 barriers to adopting ICT in the healthcare system. The reviewed articles looked into technological barriers to ICT adoption, such as ICT skill, ICT knowledge, a lack of training opportunities, a lack of computer literacy, a lack of computer access, inadequate internet connectivity, and a lack of experience with ICT were cited as barriers to ICT implementation in Ethiopia's healthcare system. Furthermore, organizational components such as Lack of job satisfaction, Lack of Refreshment training, poor staff initiation, management problem, poor infrastructure, and lack of resources remained barriers to ICT adoption in Ethiopia's healthcare system.
This review confirmed that lack of training in ICT, poor ICT knowledge, Poor ICT skill, and a lack of computer access were the most common barriers to adopting ICT in the Ethiopian healthcare system. Therefore, it is recommended that the emphasized barriers to ICT adoption be addressed in order to modernize the current Ethiopian healthcare system.
埃塞俄比亚政府计划将医疗行业数字化。然而，由于各种技术和人员障碍，大多数实施都失败了。因此，本系统评价旨在全面审查有关埃塞俄比亚医疗系统采用信息通信技术的障碍的证据。
本系统评价通过检索主要数据库进行，如Medline、PubMed、Scopus、Science Direct、谷歌、谷歌学术和其他在线数据库。作者查找、分析并总结了医疗系统中采用信息通信技术的障碍的信息。本研究纳入了9篇描述埃塞俄比亚医疗系统采用信息通信技术的障碍的文章。
本系统评价确定了医疗系统采用信息通信技术的15个障碍。综述文章探讨了采用信息通信技术的技术障碍，如信息通信技术技能、信息通信技术知识、缺乏培训机会、缺乏计算机素养、缺乏计算机设备、网络连接不足以及缺乏信息通信技术经验被认为是埃塞俄比亚医疗系统实施信息通信技术的障碍。此外，组织层面的因素，如工作满意度低、缺乏进修培训、员工积极性差、管理问题、基础设施差和资源匮乏仍然是埃塞俄比亚医疗系统采用信息通信技术的障碍。
本评价证实，信息通信技术培训不足、信息通信技术知识匮乏、信息通信技术技能差以及缺乏计算机设备是埃塞俄比亚医疗系统采用信息通信技术最常见的障碍。因此建议解决这些突出的信息通信技术采用障碍，以使当前的埃塞俄比亚医疗系统现代化。
