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When information technology meets health care in West Africa: A literature review

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dc.contributor.author Marful, Welborn Amoako
dc.contributor.author Winter, Alfred
dc.date.accessioned 2021-08-17T11:07:52Z
dc.date.available 2021-08-17T11:07:52Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.identifier.issn 23105496
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5896
dc.description 7p:, ill. en_US
dc.description.abstract This paper presents the study and analysis of some articles that were selected according to their potential contributions to the introduction of information technology (IT) in the Healthcare industry in West Africa. A total of nineteen papers published in various journals were analyzed after their titles and abstracts were reviewed. Objective: The aim of this paper is to find out on how the introduction of information technology can transform the healthcare delivery in West Africa. Methods: Keywords were used to select online articles that focus on the ways in which the use of information technology has improved or is yet to improve the provision of better healthcare in West Africa. Results and Conclusions: Information technology has a very bright future for healthcare managers, practitioners and the industry as a whole in West Africa when all the known challenges either politically-based or economy-based are removed en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Cape Coast en_US
dc.subject Health Information Systems (HIS) en_US
dc.subject Healthcare en_US
dc.subject Information Technology (IT) en_US
dc.subject West Africa en_US
dc.title When information technology meets health care in West Africa: A literature review en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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