| dc.description.abstract | Over the past few decades, there has been a great leap in the development
of Information and Communication Technology (ICT); both in hardware and
software capabilities. This has provided a sound platform for their application in
relation to healthcare provision in diverse forms. The application of ICT in
healthcare, referred to as e-health, is an all-encompassing terminology with health
and technology as driving focus. E-health is an idea whose time has come as can be
evidenced by the World Health Organization (WHO), urging all its member states to
embrace its adoption. Globally, e-health has been significantly embraced by a good
number of developed nations with well documented benefits; yet there has been very
little in terms of adoption in the developing nations especially in the Sub-Sahara
African continent. This paper reviewed e-health adoption globally and in Kenya with
the objective of determining barriers and facilitators to its adoption, eliciting
interventions to address adoption and to assess evidence available to support
potential for improving or promoting e-health. The literature synthesis included as
many dimensions as possible that related to barriers and facilitators in both clinical
and public health care. This was necessary to identify the scope of the adoption and
research experiences; it also permitted broad categorization of relevant issues
deliberated on by health/ICT experts. Broadly these were considered in terms of the
context, processes involved and the event outcomes | en_US |
