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The development of telemedicine programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and associated challenges
Monitoring the progress of telemedicine use in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries has received a considerable attention from many health organizations and governmental agencies. This study reviewed the current progress and challenges in relation to the development of telemedicine programs in SSA. Th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8613515/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34849325 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12553-021-00626-7 |
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author | Dodoo, Joana Eva Al-Samarraie, Hosam Alsswey, Ahmed |
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description | Monitoring the progress of telemedicine use in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries has received a considerable attention from many health organizations and governmental agencies. This study reviewed the current progress and challenges in relation to the development of telemedicine programs in SSA. The results from reviewing 66 empirical studies revealed an unbalanced progress across SSA countries. Further, technological, organisational, legal and regulatory, individual, financial, and cultural aspects were identified as the major barriers to the success of telemedicine development in SSA. This study reported the current trends in telemedicine application, as well as highlighting critical barriers for consideration by healthcare decision makers. The outcomes from this study offer a number of recommendations to support wider implementation and sustainable usage of telemedicine in SSA. |
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spelling | pubmed-86135152021-11-26 The development of telemedicine programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and associated challenges Dodoo, Joana Eva Al-Samarraie, Hosam Alsswey, Ahmed Health Technol (Berl) Review Paper Monitoring the progress of telemedicine use in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries has received a considerable attention from many health organizations and governmental agencies. This study reviewed the current progress and challenges in relation to the development of telemedicine programs in SSA. The results from reviewing 66 empirical studies revealed an unbalanced progress across SSA countries. Further, technological, organisational, legal and regulatory, individual, financial, and cultural aspects were identified as the major barriers to the success of telemedicine development in SSA. This study reported the current trends in telemedicine application, as well as highlighting critical barriers for consideration by healthcare decision makers. The outcomes from this study offer a number of recommendations to support wider implementation and sustainable usage of telemedicine in SSA. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-11-25 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8613515/ /pubmed/34849325 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12553-021-00626-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Review Paper Dodoo, Joana Eva Al-Samarraie, Hosam Alsswey, Ahmed The development of telemedicine programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and associated challenges |
title | The development of telemedicine programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and associated challenges |
title_full | The development of telemedicine programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and associated challenges |
title_fullStr | The development of telemedicine programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and associated challenges |
title_full_unstemmed | The development of telemedicine programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and associated challenges |
title_short | The development of telemedicine programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and associated challenges |
title_sort | development of telemedicine programs in sub-saharan africa: progress and associated challenges |
topic | Review Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8613515/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34849325 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12553-021-00626-7 |
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