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Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya
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BACKGROUND: The growth of Information and Communication Technology in Kenya has facilitated implementation of a large number of eHealth projects in a bid to cost-effectively address health and health system challenges. This systematic review aims to provide a situational analysis of eHealth initiatives being implemented in Kenya, including an assessment of the areas of focus and geographic distribution of the health projects. The search strategy involved peer and non-peer reviewed sources of relevant information relating to projects under implementation in Kenya. The projects were examined based on strategic area of implementation, health purpose and focus, geographic location, evaluation status and thematic area. RESULTS: A total of 114 citations comprising 69 eHealth projects fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The eHealth projects included 47 mHealth projects, 9 health information system projects, 8 eLearning projects and 5 telemedicine projects. In terms of projects geographical distribution, 24 were executed in Nairobi whilst 15 were designed to have a national coverage but only 3 were scaled up. In terms of health focus, 19 projects were mainly on primary care, 17 on HIV/AIDS and 11 on maternal and child health (MNCH). Only 8 projects were rigorously evaluated under randomized control trials. CONCLUSION: This review discovered that there is a myriad of eHealth projects being implemented in Kenya, mainly in the mHealth strategic area and focusing mostly on primary care and HIV/AIDs. Based on our analysis, most of the projects were rarely evaluated. In addition, few projects are implemented in marginalised areas and least urbanized counties with more health care needs, notwithstanding the fact that adoption of information and communication technology should aim to improve health equity (i.e. improve access to health care particularly in remote parts of the country in order to reduce geographical inequities) and contribute to overall health systems strengthening.
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This systematic review inventories 69 eHealth projects implemented in Kenya, finding that most were mHealth initiatives concentrated in urban counties and rarely rigorously evaluated. It concludes that eHealth activity is poorly aligned with marginalized areas and Ministry of Health priorities, limiting scale-up and equity impact.
Key findings
- Of 69 eHealth projects, 47 (69%) were mHealth, 9 (13%) health information systems, 8 (11%) eLearning, and 5 (7%) telemedicine.
- Geographic distribution was skewed: Nairobi had 24 mapped projects, while least urbanized counties such as Turkana, Wajir, and Garissa had 1, 1, and 2 projects respectively; Samburu, Marsabit, and Mandera had none. Of 14 marginalized counties, 10 had at least one project, with Kilifi highest at 5 and Kwale at 4.
- Health focus was mainly primary care (19; 28%), HIV/AIDS (17; 25%), and maternal and child health (11; 16%).
- Evaluation was limited: only 28 of 69 projects (41%) reported any evaluation, and only 8 (12%) were randomized controlled trials; 41 projects (59%) had no reported evaluation.
Methods
- Systematic review of peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed sources, including PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Econlit, SocIndex, Cochrane, Google Scholar, organizational websites, blogs, personal communication with implementers, and hand searches; no time period was specified.
- The search identified 5,506 citations plus 40 hand-searched publications; after removing 354 duplicates and excluding records, 114 citations reporting 69 eHealth projects met inclusion criteria.
- Projects were categorized by strategic area, thematic area, health focus, geographic location, and evaluation status; geo-coded maps were layered by urbanization and marginalisation using Commission on Revenue Allocation classifications.
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- Stated by the paper: some projects may have lacked documentation or externally shared reports because they were profit-driven, aid-funded, or proprietary, and some projects may have been implemented after data collection concluded, so the inventory may not be exhaustive.
- Evident from the text: reliance on non-peer-reviewed sources, organizational websites, blogs, and personal communication may introduce selection or reporting bias.
- Evident from the text: because 41 of 69 projects (59%) had no reported evaluation, the review cannot assess effectiveness or cost-effectiveness for most included projects.
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“Projects implemented in Kenya covered all eHealth strategic areas with majority (47; 69%) of them delivered through mHealth, less commonly focusing on health information systems (9; 13%), eLearning (8; 11%) and telemedicine (5; 7%) as shown in Table 2.”
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“The eHealth projects included 47 mHealth projects, 9 health information system projects, 8 eLearning projects and 5 telemedicine projects.”
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“In terms of projects geographical distribution, 24 were executed in Nairobi whilst 15 were designed to have a national coverage but only 3 were scaled up.”
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“However, only three projects were scaled up to national level [27–31].”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Abstract > Results
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- Not checked yetcites [27] Maurer B. Mobile money: communication, consumption and change in the payments space. J Dev Stud. 2012;48(5):589–604. source
- Not checked yetcites [28] Sahay S, Sæbø J, Braa JR. Scaling of HIS in a global context: same, same, but different. Inf Organ. 2013;23(4):294–323. source
- Not checked yetcites [29] Suri T, Jack W, Stoker TM. Documenting the birth of a financial economy. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2012;109(26):10257–62. source
- Not checked yetcites [30] Afyainfo. The AfyaInfo Project. 2014. http://www.afyainfo.org/index.php/features/the-afyainfo-project . Accessed 20 May 2014.
- Not checked yetcites [31] KEMSA. KEMSA E-mobile. 2015. http://kemsa.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66&Itemid=153 . Accessed 10 Mar 2015.
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“Another noteworthy finding is that the first eHealth project was implemented in 2001 [40–43] in Kenya while most of the projects (n = 42) were initiated in 2010 and onwards.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Characteristics of the projects > Evaluation of the projects
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- Not checked yetcites [40] Vanderbilt University. The Moi Schools of Medicine & Public Health, Kenya. Eldoret. 2001. http://www.vecd.org/trainee-sites/the-moi-schools-of-medicine-public-health-kenya/ . Accessed 20 May 2014.
- Not checked yetcites [41] Diero L, Rotich JK, Bii J, Mamlin BW, Einterz RM, Kalamai IZ, et al. A computer-based medical record system and personal digital assistants to assess and follow patients with respiratory tract infections visiting a rural Kenyan health centre. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2006;6(1):21. source
- Not checked yetcites [42] Fazen LE, Chemwolo BT, Songok JJ, Ruhl LJ, Kipkoech C, Green JM, et al. AccessMRS: integrating OpenMRS with smart forms on android. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2012;192:866–70.
- Not checked yetcites [43] Rajput ZA, Mbugua S, Amadi D, Chepnǵeno V, Saleem JJ, Anokwa Y, et al. Evaluation of an android-based mHealth system for population surveillance in developing countries. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2012;19(4):655–9. source
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“In total there were a total of eleven projects being executed in the least urbanized counties as demonstrated by Fig. 2.”
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“The search concluded with 114 citations reporting 69 eHealth projects (Fig. 1).”
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“A total of 114 citations comprising 69 eHealth projects fulfilled the inclusion criteria.”
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“Notably, at least one project was under implementation in each of the twelve thematic areas (Table 2).”
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“According to the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), fourteen counties are classified as marginalised [26]. Of these, ten counties had at least one eHealth initiative under implementation whilst Kilifi had the highest number of projects (n = 5) with Kwale having four projects.”
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“The remaining two projects were designed to address both HIV/AIDS and maternal and child health (Table 2).”
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“Twenty-three projects were designed to target multiple conditions and diseases.”
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“Indeed, only 8 out of the 69 projects underwent rigorous effectiveness evaluation utilising randomized controlled trials.”
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“As shown by this study, about 69 eHealth projects were implemented in Kenya with only 8 showing evidence of rigorous evaluation.”
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“Of the remaining 21 projects, one was non-randomized intervention studies (1%), 7 cross-sectional studies (10%), and 1 cohort study (1%), 9 were feasibility and acceptability studies (13%) while 3 (4%) were qualitative studies (Table 2).”
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“Health financing | 4 (5%)”
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“Supply chain management | 4 (5%)”
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“The other thematic areas involved provider training and education, and financial transactions and incentives. These thematic areas were represented by six (9%) projects in each of the respective domains.”
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“However, the other least urbanised counties such as Samburu, Marsabit and Mandera had no eHealth project being implemented.”
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“Finally, three thematic areas applying sensors and point-of-care diagnostics, registries and vital events tracking, and electronic decision support were each represented by two innovations.”
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“Drug supply | 4 (5%)”
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“Additionally, most of the projects (n = 41) were implemented in multiple counties thus the total number of mapped projects excluding national projects (n = 148) were greater than the number of actual projects (n = 69).”
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“In terms of health focus, this study found that nineteen (28%) projects focused on primary care followed by HIV/AIDS (17; 25%), then maternal and child health (11; 16%) and malaria (8; 11%).”
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“One of these projects relied on the innovative use of mobile money [27, 29] to provide health care and therefore it was not mapped.”
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“Most eHealth projects were designed to be implemented in specific geographical locations with a few projects implemented nationally.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Methods > Categorization of eHealth projects in Kenya
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“Other purposesb | 7 (10%)”
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“Most of the eHealth projects were used to influence client education and behaviour change and to collect patient data.”
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“These types of interventions have been proven to be effective as evidenced by the small sample of evaluated mHealth interventions [16, 20, 32, 33, 45], that showed that SMS communications had positive effect on patient behaviour and health outcomes and was also cost-effective and reliable [50].”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [50] Zurovac D, Larson BA, Sudoi RK, Snow RW. Costs and cost-effectiveness of a mobile phone text-message reminder programmes to improve health workers’ adherence to malaria guidelines in Kenya. PLoS ONE. 2012;7(12):e52045. source
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“According to this study, mHealth and eHealth projects are on the rise, which could be explained by the increasing growth of ICT sector in Kenya and the political willingness to advance investment in this important industry.”
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“Of the 15 national projects, only two reported some form of evaluation, one being a cross-sectional survey [27, 29] while the other was a qualitative study [51, 52].”
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- Not checked yetcites [27] Maurer B. Mobile money: communication, consumption and change in the payments space. J Dev Stud. 2012;48(5):589–604. source
- Not checked yetcites [29] Suri T, Jack W, Stoker TM. Documenting the birth of a financial economy. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2012;109(26):10257–62. source
- Not checked yetcites [51] IntraHealth International. Capacity Kenya. 2009. http://www.intrahealth.org/page/capacity-kenya . Accessed 19 May 2014.
- Not checked yetcites [52] IntraHealth International. Kenya. Nairobi. 2014. http://www.intrahealth.org/files/media/kenya/Country_Brief_Kenya_web%20ready.pdf .
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“As illustrated by this study, projects implemented were not aligned to the MoH health needs and priorities and instead majority of projects focused on specific diseases and population groups such as HIV/AIDS and maternal and child health at primary care.”
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“For example, based on this analysis, majority of the eHealth initiatives under implementation are fragmented and not integrated with the national health information system creating interoperability challenges.”
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“Another important finding in this study is that majority of the eHealth initiatives implemented in the country are funded by development agencies and international non-governmental organisations raising the issue of ownership by the Ministry of Health.”
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“These types of interventions have been proven to be effective as evidenced by the small sample of evaluated mHealth interventions [16, 20, 32, 33, 45], that showed that SMS communications had positive effect on patient behaviour and health outcomes and was also cost-effective and reliable [50].”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [16] Curran K, Mugo NR, Kurth A, Ngure K, Heffron R, Donnell D, et al. Daily short message service surveys to measure sexual behavior and pre-exposure prophylaxis use among kenyan men and women. AIDS and Behav. 2013;17(9):2977–85. source
- Not checked yetcites [20] Lester RT, Mills EJ, Kariri A, Ritvo P, Chung M, Jack W, et al. The HAART cell phone adherence trial (WelTel Kenya1): a randomized controlled trial protocol. Trials. 2009;10(1):87. source
- Not checked yetcites [32] Lester RT, Ritvo P, Mills EJ, Kariri A, Karanja S, Chung MH, et al. Effects of a mobile phone short message service on antiretroviral treatment adherence in Kenya (WelTel Kenya1): a randomised trial. Lancet. 2010;376(9755):1838–45. source
- Not checked yetcites [33] Pop-Eleches C, Thirumurthy H, Habyarimana J, Graff Zivin J, Goldstein M, De Walque D, et al. Mobile phone technologies improve adherence to antiretroviral treatment in resource-limited settings: a randomized controlled trial of text message reminders. Aids. 2011;25:825–34. source
- Not checked yetcites [45] Odeny TA, Bailey RC, Bukusi EA, Simoni JM, Tapia KA, Yuhas K, et al. Text messaging to improve attendance at post-operative clinic visits after adult male circumcision for HIV prevention: a randomized controlled trial. PLoS ONE. 2012;7(9):e43832. source
- Not checked yetcites [50] Zurovac D, Larson BA, Sudoi RK, Snow RW. Costs and cost-effectiveness of a mobile phone text-message reminder programmes to improve health workers’ adherence to malaria guidelines in Kenya. PLoS ONE. 2012;7(12):e52045. source
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“This review discovered that there is a myriad of eHealth projects being implemented in Kenya, mainly in the mHealth strategic area and focusing mostly on primary care and HIV/AIDs.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Abstract > Conclusion
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“The national eHealth strategy outlined five specific strategic areas of focus to aid eHealth project implementation in the country. These include telemedicine, health information systems (including electronic health records), mHealth (health through the use of mobile devices), eLearning (including distance education or learning) and health information for citizens (health information provision to”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Background
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [14] Republic of Kenya. Kenya National e-Health Strategy 2011–2017. In: Ministry of Medical Services, Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, editors. Nairobi. 2011.
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“However, due to the sensitive nature of this information, most private projects were not prepared to disclose the information deemed as delicate.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Methods > Data extraction
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“Conflicting opinions were resolved through discussion amongst the authors.”
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“Due to overlap with other areas, the strategic area referring to health information for citizens was not analysed separately but included in other project implementation areas.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Methods > Categorization of eHealth projects in Kenya
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“One of the major eHealth public health objectives is to improve access to health services through strengthening health system [3, 55] by ensuring hard-to-reach communities receive effective and quality health care.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [3] Kirigia JM, Seddoh A, Gatwiri D, Muthuri LH, Seddoh J. E-health: determinants, opportunities, challenges and the way forward for countries in the WHO African Region. BMC Public Health. 2005;5:137. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-137 . source
- Not checked yetcites [55] Alvarez RC. The promise of e-Health—a Canadian perspective. eHealth Int. 2002;1(1):4. source
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“In a few instances, the ICT sector has experienced successful public private partnerships for example business mobile products such as M-Pesa [58] shows that the scaling up of eHealth projects can be executed in Kenya with proper planning and sufficient funding.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [58] Jack W, Suri T, Townsend RM. Monetary theory and electronic money: reflections on the Kenyan experience. FRB Richmond Econ Q. 2010;96(1):83–122.
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“Even though it was a challenge gathering information relating to innovations being implemented in the country, the researchers combined different methods to ensure all projects were documented and inventoried.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Discussion
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“First, some projects may have lacked documentation or externally shared reports, probably due to the profit driven or aid funded nature of the eHealth projects whilst some projects were proprietary in nature and thus business ventures.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Discussion > Limitations
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“According to this study, mHealth and eHealth projects are on the rise, which could be explained by the increasing growth of ICT sector in Kenya and the political willingness to advance investment in this important industry.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Discussion
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“As noted by Kirigia et al., ICT treats geographically displaced resources as if they were centralized thus promoting economies of scale [3].”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [3] Kirigia JM, Seddoh A, Gatwiri D, Muthuri LH, Seddoh J. E-health: determinants, opportunities, challenges and the way forward for countries in the WHO African Region. BMC Public Health. 2005;5:137. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-137 . source
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In the paper
“This review concludes that there is a myriad of eHealth projects being implemented in urban centres rather than marginalised areas where geographical inequalities and inequities in access to health care exist in Kenya.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Conclusions
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“Generally, if eHealth projects are implemented and evaluated effectively they would contribute to improving access to and quality of health care hence strengthening the overall health system in an effort to achieve good health outcomes.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Discussion
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“Therefore, information from some of these types of innovations could not be shared with the authors and there might be projects that have since been implemented once the data collection had been concluded implying that this study may not be an exhaustive inventory of all eHealth innovations implemented in Kenya.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Discussion > Limitations
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“Due to lack of government stewardship and leadership, eHealth initiatives are not aligned to the Ministry of Health priorities hence projects location is often determined by implementers.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Conclusions
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“The implication being that the benefits arising from eHealth adoption are often not passed on to patients or beneficiaries.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Conclusions
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“The marginalised areas have limited access to health care services yet they bear the highest burden of disease [54].”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [54] Vision K. 2030 (2007). A globally competitive and prosperous Kenya: https://www.opendatagoke/download/jih3-amby/application/pdf .
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“This analysis showed that the use of text-message reminders is inexpensive and effective way to improve health workers adherence to malaria treatment guidelines.”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Characteristics of the projects > Evaluation of the projects
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [50] Zurovac D, Larson BA, Sudoi RK, Snow RW. Costs and cost-effectiveness of a mobile phone text-message reminder programmes to improve health workers’ adherence to malaria guidelines in Kenya. PLoS ONE. 2012;7(12):e52045. source
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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There is a dearth of evidence of eHealth initiatives being implemented in Kenya, specifically a lack of a registry of all projects under implementation and documentation of their characteristics.
“However, there is dearth of evidence of initiatives being implemented in the country. Specifically, there is lack of a registry of all projects under implementation and documentation of their specific characteristics including contributions to strengthening the Kenyan health system.”
The paper relies on this without support.
A large number of eHealth projects in Kenya were not reported in peer reviewed literature.
“This however was not sufficient as there were large number of eHealth projects in Kenya that were not reported in peer reviewed literature.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The cost of setting up mobile health systems is considerably low compared to other ICT systems.
“The cost of setting up mobile health systems is considerably low compared to other ICT systems.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Mobile Health driven initiatives provide easy accessibility to interventions effectively at any setting.
“Mobile Health driven initiatives provide easy accessibility to interventions effectively at any setting.”
The paper relies on this without support.
In the developing and building up phase, eHealth initiatives are majorly driven by the need to improve access and quality of health care.
“In this phase, the eHealth initiatives are majorly driven by the need to improve access and quality of health care.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The major pressing health priorities in marginalised regions are maternal and child health challenges and communicable diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS.
“The major pressing health priorities in these regions are maternal and child health challenges and communicable diseases such malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Health systems are interconnected.
“Since health systems are interconnected, it is necessary that eHealth projects be able to integrate to the overall health system.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Development agencies focus on their countries' development assistance strategic direction while international non-governmental organisations focus on the most popular diseases in an effort to attract funding.
“This is because development agencies focuses on their countries’ development assistance strategic direction while international non-governmental organisations would focus on the most popular diseases in an effort to attract funding.”
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“Lack of political commitment, including regulations, standardization, monitoring, and evaluation, could be important barriers to digital health uptake.”
From Digital health interventions for non-communicable disease management in primary health care in low-and middle-income countries (2023) · cites this paper as [49]
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In the paper
“Of the remaining 21 projects, one was non-randomized intervention studies”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Characteristics of the projects > Evaluation of the projects
Reported 21 · recomputed 20
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“primary care (19; 27%)”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Characteristics of the projects > Health focus
Reported 27 · recomputed 27.536232
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§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Characteristics of the projects > Strategic area of implementation
“| Malaria | 7 (10%) |”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Characteristics of the projects > Health focus
“and malaria (8; 11%).”
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“eLearning (8; 11%)”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Characteristics of the projects > Strategic area of implementation
Reported 11 · recomputed 11.594203
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In the paper
“| Supply chain management | 4 (5%) |”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Characteristics of the projects > Strategic area of implementation
Reported 5 · recomputed 5.797101
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§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Characteristics of the projects > Strategic area of implementation
“| Cross-sectional study | 6 (9%) |”
§ Assessing the feasibility of eHealth and mHealth: a systematic review and analysis of initiatives implemented in Kenya > Characteristics of the projects > Evaluation of the projects
“7 cross-sectional studies (10%)”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Njoroge, M., Zurovac, D., Ogara, E. A. A., Chuma, J., & Kirigia, D.
- Affiliations
- Kenya Medical Research Institute (KE)
- Boston University (US)
- Ministry of Health (KE)
- Corresponding author
- Njoroge, Martin
- Venue
- BMC Research Notes
- Published
- 2017-02-10
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 90-90
- ISSN
- 1756-0500 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5301342
- OpenAlex
- W2586626150
- Semantic Scholar
- 1be9f4e520c591a227e4dfc1fd5972cc4bcb6db7
- Cited by
- 100
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6
- FWCI
- 1.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- BMC Research Notes (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- International Development Research Centre (CA) (grant number 106229-011)
- Wellcome Trust (GB) (092654)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › ICT in Developing Communities
- Keywords
- e-health, mobile health, Kenya, health information systems, telemedicine, online learning, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, primary care, health equity, health system strengthening, project evaluation
- MeSH terms
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Community Health Services, Developing Countries, Humans, Kenya, Primary Health Care, Public Health, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Telemedicine, Healthcare Disparities, Health Information Systems
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