ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2025
Electronic community health information system usability evaluation in Ethiopia.
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- Enhancing Care Coordination and Patient Engagement Through Electronic Medical Record Utilization in Primary Healthcare: A Mixed-Methods Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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backgroundA community-level electronic health information system (eCHIS) was introduced in Ethiopia to support proper routine data management and use. Though large investments were made to implement this digital information system, the outcome was not as expected in terms of data quality and information use. Furthermore, the usability, effectiveness, efficiency, and overall satisfaction of the application's users have remained unexplored. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the eCHIS usability factors in Ethiopia.
methodsWe followed a two-stage approach. First, we reviewed the existing literature to identify suitable protocols and usability metrics based on usability factors, criteria, and attributes. The Goal Question Metric approach was adopted to define the goal into several questions. A set of 26 questionnaires was developed and refined to encompass usability metrics across various dimensions. These dimensions included learnability (9/26), efficiency (1/26), effectiveness (3/26), trustfulness (4/26), and satisfaction (9/26). Each questionnaire was measured on a five-point Likert scale. Following that, a cross-sectional study was conducted among eCHIS users in purposefully selected districts of Oromia, Amhara, and Sidama regions of Ethiopia. The selection of study sites was based on their utilization and experience with eCHIS, in addition to considering their internet connectivity.
resultsA total of 81 participants completed the questionnaires. Overall, we observed a high level of satisfaction among health extension workers, midwives, and focal persons regarding the eCHIS application. However, we also identified some discrepancies in terms of learnability, efficiency, effectiveness, trustfulness, and satisfaction. We found that most health workers who casually utilize eCHIS applications had service experience greater than 10 years, eCHIS experience less than 2 years, and were in good connectivity areas, and were satisfied with the usability of eCHIS applications. Furthermore, the eCHIS usability was examined using the five metrics across the different eCHIS users (health extension workers, health professionals, focal persons, and staff at the Ministry of Health, regional, zonal, and woreda levels), which revealed relatively comparable mean score values for novice, casual, and expert users.
conclusionsThe usability evaluation of the eCHIS in Ethiopia revealed that users with experience and good internet connectivity were satisfied. Future generations of eCHIS will require standardizing the user interface, rules, and guidelines based on user experience, language translation consistency, and establishing a baseline standard for assessing user competency.
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