WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Odangowei Inetiminebi Ogidi*, Hilda Chinwe Afakwu-Adimoha and Douye Loretta Indiamaowei

ABSTRACT

According to deployments of electronic health (eHealth), the health industry has advanced tremendously in recent years. E-Health offers a huge potential to provide high-quality, affordable healthcare in underdeveloped nations. E-health applications will assist healthcare services, enhance patient monitoring, enhance proper patient record storage, save time, raise resources, support referral systems, and guarantee a decrease in medical mistakes. The current status of e-Health in Nigeria is the endorsement of district health information system, establishment of the national health promotion policy, implementation of open medical record system, national ICT health plan and WHO and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) health framework. Yet, the majority of Nigerian hospitals continue to provide healthcare using a paper-based system, despite the difficulties in satisfying the rising needs of the country's residents who want medical treatment owing to the country's vast population. The Nigerian e-healthcare system is in a poor condition due to a number of challenges, including inadequate infrastructure and equipment, insufficient knowledge and competence, legal complications, and weak leadership. However, this research comes to the conclusion that for Nigeria's e-healthcare system to be fully implemented, the current and future governments should create internet information portals, use mass media to broadcast widely, create interactive programming for broadcast media, utilise existing communication systems more effectively, and create community access points.