The Attitude of Health Professionals on Electronic Health System in Developing Countries: A Review Article

Objective: It is anticipated that the implementation of electronic medical record systems would improve healthcare infrastructure as well as clinical treatment by making it easier to store and retrieve the medical histories of patients. This study aims to investigate on the attitude of health professionals on electronic health system in developing countries.

Methods: The reviewed studies adopted a cross-sectional study design. A systematic review was carried out with the aid of online research journal websites as well as other in-context articles. While conducting this study, the key words in the search query were directed towards the barriers in the attitude of health professionals on electronic health system in developing countries. Areas noted in relation to this study was attitude of health professionals on electronic health system. Therefore, there was linkage of papers pointing out the attitude of health professionals on electronic health system in developing countries.

Results: Of the total respondents, 125 (29.6%) did not utilize the EMR system for their everyday job, whereas 240 (56.7%) had a positive outlook on EMR system use, as reported by Yehualashet et al. in 2015. In 2019, Agyenna et al., The study found that the adoption of e-Health systems among health managers and professionals was significantly influenced by institutional factors.

Conclusion: The research found that e-Health adoption among healthcare institutions was negatively impacted by most parameters, but moderately impacted by performance expectancy variables and effort expectancy variables.