A conceptual e-health readiness assessment framework for students in higher education

Abstract

Healthcare extends across all races, genders, ages, culture as well as geographical boundaries. Therefore, as a concern to all, to promote general development in developing countries, their healthcare needs should be tackled. This can be tackled by using modern information and communication technology (ICT) such as e-health to deliver health services to patients with limited access to care. However, readiness for e-health should be assessed first in developing countries. Although several articles have been published on e-health readiness assessment frameworks, existing e-health readiness assessment frameworks and tools have not been found to be entirely suitable for assessing e-health readiness in developing countries. Therefore, this paper proposes a context specific e-health readiness assessment framework that could be used in developing countries.