An Empirical Study of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the Nigerian Health Sector

Computational Methods and Algorithms for Medicine and Optimized Clinical Practice Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI:10.4018/978-1-5225-8244-1.CH002

J. A. Balogun, Idowu Peter Adebayo, Ngozi Chidozie Egejuru, T. Aderounmu

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This study focuses on the assessment of different ICT tools used by Nigerian health workers. Structured questionnaires were used to collect information from 106 respondents. The questionnaire consists of 5 sections, namely: demographics, extent of use of ICT, tasks and activities carried out with ICT, the year of adoption of ICT. Descriptive statistics tools were used for data summarization and visualization. The results showed that the ICT devices were more commonly used among females than male medical personnel which were most common among the age group of 26-30 years and were nurses and doctors with less than 5 years' experience. The earliest ICT tool adopted was the PC in 1994 followed by mobile phones and search engines in 1996 and the projector in 2001. A majority of the health workers used ICT for administrative functions followed by research and personal work. ICT majorly impacted ICT by promoting collaboration among physicians, quicker medical diagnoses of diseases, increased efficiency and facilitated remote consultation, diagnoses and treatment.

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尼日利亚卫生部门信息和通信技术的实证研究

这项研究的重点是评估尼日利亚卫生工作者使用的不同信息通信技术工具。采用结构化问卷收集106名受访者的信息。问卷由5个部分组成，分别是:人口统计、信息和通信技术的使用程度、利用信息和通信技术开展的任务和活动、采用信息和通信技术的年份。描述性统计工具用于数据汇总和可视化。结果表明，女性医务人员比男性医务人员更常使用信息通信技术设备，其中26-30岁年龄组最为常见，并且是经验不足5年的护士和医生。最早采用的信息通信技术工具是1994年的个人电脑，其后是1996年的移动电话和搜索引擎，2001年的投影仪。大多数卫生工作者将信息和通信技术用于行政职能，其次是研究和个人工作。信通技术对信通技术的影响主要体现在促进医生之间的协作、加快疾病的医疗诊断、提高效率和便利远程咨询、诊断和治疗。

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