A literature review of eHealth sector and challenges in Nigeria

Health sector has evolved significantly in the previous years in accordance to electronic health (eHealth) deployments which utilizes health resources (e.g. information, medicine, and so on) and health care by electronic means. Provision of effective and efficient healthcare services have always been a challenge in developing countries, many factors have been identified by different researchers and other stakeholders as the reason for lack of adequate healthcare services: however, the challenges differs from one country to another. A detailed literature review was conducted to realize the currently eHealth adoption level in Federal Republic of Nigeria while considering facilitating conditions and barriers towards eHealth technologies. It was realized from the literature review that a full scale implementation which would consider organizational structure, technology platform, policy, legislation, social benefits and change management is required.