ICT Applications as E-Health Solutions in Rural Healthcare in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

Ruxwana, Nkqubela L; Herselman, Marlien E; Conradie, D Pieter

doi:10.1177/183335831003900104

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ICT Applications as E-Health Solutions in Rural Healthcare in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

Ruxwana, Nkqubela L, Herselman, Marlien E, Conradie, D Pieter·2010·Health Information Management Journal

DOI 10.1177/183335831003900104

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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 five 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.

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Within studies applying TAM, factors influential to health care providers' acceptance of eHealth included perceived usefulness and needs, perceived ease of use, and all facilitating or inhibiting conditions.
“Within these studies [25,29,41,42,75,77,79,81,83-85,87,88,102], the factors influential to health care providers’ acceptance of eHealth included their perceived usefulness and needs, perceived ease of use, and all of the facilitating or inhibiting conditions.”
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Few studies have successfully tested the applicability of the UTAUT model by Venkatesh et al.
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Technology (ICT); Rural Development
(2015)

Authors: Ruxwana, N. L., Herselman, M. E., & Conradie, D. P.
Affiliations: Tshwane University of Technology (ZA)
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (ZA)
Corresponding author: Ruxwana, Nkqubela L
Herselman, Marlien E
Conradie, D Pieter
ORCID: Ruxwana, Nkqubela L
Herselman, Marlien E
Conradie, D Pieter
Venue: Health Information Management Journal
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2010-03
Volume: 39
Issue: 1
Pages: 17-29
ISSN: 1833-3583 (ISSN-L)
1833-3575
DOI: 10.1177/183335831003900104
OpenAlex: W1812109890
Cited by: 137
References: 16
Citations by year: 2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 7
FWCI: 8.56
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Health Information Management Journal (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Nelson Mandela University Research Repository (submittedVersion)
Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › ICT in Developing Communities
Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
Keywords: e-health, ICT adoption, rural health care, telemedicine, digital divide, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, technology acceptance, Eastern Cape, health information systems
MeSH terms: Attitude of Health Personnel, Attitude to Computers, Computer Communication Networks, Computer Literacy, Computers, Humans, Medical Informatics, South Africa, Telemedicine, Rural Health Services

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