Assessing Ghana's eHealth workforce: implications for planning and training.

ABSTRACT:

Background

eHealth-the proficient application of information and communication technology to support healthcare delivery-has been touted as one of the best solutions to address quality and accessibility challenges in healthcare. Although eHealth could be of more value to health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where resources are limited, identification of a competent workforce which can develop and maintain eHealth systems is a key barrier to adoption. Very little is known about the actual or optimal states of the eHealth workforce needs of LMICs. The objective of this study was to develop a framework to characterize and assess the eHealth workforce of hospitals in LMICs.

Methods

To characterize and assess the sufficiency of the workforce, we designed thi

SUBMITTER: Ogoe HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6260724 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature