| Autor: |
Ruxwana NL; Faculty of ICT, Business Informatics Department, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria Campus, Staatsartillery Road, Pretoria 0001, South Africa. RuxwanaNL@tut.ac.za, Herselman ME, Conradie DP |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Health information management : journal of the Health Information Management Association of Australia [Health Inf Manag] 2010; Vol. 39 (1), pp. 17-26. |
| DOI: |
10.1177/183335831003900104 |
| Abstrakt: |
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions (e.g. e-health, telemedicine, e-education) are often viewed as vehicles to bridge the digital divide between rural and urban healthcare centres and to resolve shortcomings in the rural health sector. This study focused on factors perceived to influence the uptake and use of ICTs as e-health solutions in selected rural Eastern Cape healthcare centres, and on structural variables relating to these facilities and processes. Attention was also given to two psychological variables that may underlie an individual&s acceptance and use of ICTs: usefulness and ease of use. Recommendations are made with regard to how ICTs can be used more effectively to improve health systems at fi ve rural healthcare centres where questionnaire and interview data were collected: St. Lucy&s Hospital, Nessie Knight Hospital, the Tsilitwa Clinic, the Madzikane Ka-Zulu Memorial Hospital and the Nelson Mandela General Hospital. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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