An exploratory study on Telemedicine in the South African Public Health Sector: A case of Gauteng Province

7 pages•Published: October 25, 2019

Tope Samuel Adeyelure and Billy Mathias Kalema

Abstract

Health systems in South African comprises of both the private sector and the public sector, run by the government. Majority of the population access health services through public clinics and hospitals. Public health sectors are understaffed, with inadequate resources, especially in rural areas. Information and communication technology and its applications can be seen as a way forward to counteract some of the challenges faced in public health sectors. Telemedicine can be tool to assist in bridging the gaps in this regard. Telemedicine is health-care delivery concept that enables distant to be examined by medical practitioners using telecommunications technologies. Therefore, this research study aimed to investigate factors that influences users’ readiness to accept telemedicine in South African public health sectors environment. To achieve this objective, this study followed a positivism paradigm, supported by the quantitative research approach. Organization and Environment (in TOE framework) constructs, technology compatibility (in model of information technology implementation), perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use (in Technology Acceptance Model, (TAM))guided the development of hypotheses and their testing for this study. The findings reveal that technology, environment, organization, information quality, and security are factors that inform pre-implementation of telemedicine in South African public health sector.

Keyphrases: gauteng province, public health sector, telemedicine

In: Kennedy Njenga (editor). Proceedings of 4th International Conference on the Internet, Cyber Security and Information Systems 2019, vol 12, pages 13-19.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/cj99
	https://doi.org/10.29007/vpdt

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{ICICIS2019:exploratory_study_Telemedicine_South,
  author    = {Tope Samuel Adeyelure and Billy Mathias Kalema},
  title     = {An exploratory study on Telemedicine in the South African Public Health Sector: A case of Gauteng Province},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 4th  International Conference on the Internet, Cyber Security and Information Systems 2019},
  editor    = {Kennedy Njenga},
  series    = {Kalpa Publications in Computing},
  volume    = {12},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2515-1762},
  url       = {/publications/paper/cj99},
  doi       = {10.29007/vpdt},
  pages     = {13-19},
  year      = {2019}}

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