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Exploring facilitators and barriers of the sustainable acceptance of e-health system solutions in Ethiopia: A systematic review.
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- Mapping global inequities in telemedicine implementation: An umbrella review of barriers and facilitators.PloS one · 2026Pooled it
- Knowledge of telemedicine and its associated factors among health professional in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
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- Translation and Psychometric Validation of the Amharic eHealth Literacy Questionnaire: Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- eHealth Literacy Mediating Social Support and Technology Acceptance Among Patients With Chronic Illnesses: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Article
- Exploration of utilizing electronic health databases in evidence-based practice among Iranian pharmacists: a survey by simulation of health-seeking pregnant women.Journal of pharmaceutical health care and sciences · 2026Article
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- Facilitator and Barrier to Health Information System Use from Health Professionals Perspective: A Scoping Review.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Review
- Contextual factors influencing the use of digital health by patients and physicians in primary care: a scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Analyzing health service employees' intention to use e-health systems in southwest Ethiopia: using UTAUT-2 model.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Health professionals' acceptance of mobile-based clinical guideline application in a resource-limited setting: using a modified UTAUT model.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Barriers and Facilitators Experienced During the Implementation of Web-Based Teleradiology System in Public Hospitals of the Northwest Ethiopia: An Interpretive Description Study.International journal of telemedicine and applications · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundeHealth is the use of information and communications technologies in support of health and health-related fields, including healthcare services, health surveillance, health literature, and health education knowledge and research, has the potential to improve the delivery and support of healthcare services by promoting information sharing and evidence-based health practice. Acceptance of e-health in Ethiopia using systematic review is uncertain. As a result, this study aimed to assess barriers and facilitators of the sustainable acceptance of e-health system adoption in Ethiopia through a systematic review of the literature.
methodsThe Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) checklist was used to conduct this study. Relevant articles have been searched in Google Scholar, Medline, PubMed, Embrace, Web of Science, Scopus, Cochrane Library, and empirical research done in Ethiopia is the main emphasis of the search strategy. The total number of studies that satisfied the criteria for inclusion was ten. In this research, empirical data related to e-health acceptance factors were retrieved, examined, and summarized by the authors.
resultsThis systematic review identified a total of 25 predictors that have been found in the ten studies. The identified facilitators were effort expectancy, performance expectancy, facilitating conditions, social influences, attitude, computer literacy, participant age, perceived enjoyment, and educational status, duration of mobile device use, organizational culture, and habit. Moreover, technology anxiety was the most barrier to sustainable acceptance of e-health systems in Ethiopia.
conclusionsThe most common facilitator identified from the predictors was effort expectancy, which played a major role in the adoption of the e-health system in Ethiopia. Therefore, eHealth implementers and managers in those settings should give users of the system priority in improving the technical infrastructure by regularly providing them with basic facilitating conditions. They should also pay attention to the system they want to implement because doing so will improve the users' perception of the system's value and attitude.
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