ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Digit. Health

Sec. Human Factors and Digital Health

Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2025.1488880

This article is part of the Research TopicOvercoming Challenges in Health Technology Implementation to Maximize Patient Safety BenefitsView all 4 articles

Exploring User Experiences of Clinicians Engaged with the Digital Healthcare Interventions across the Referral and University Teaching Hospitals in Nigeria: A Qualitative Study

Provisionally accepted
Uchechukwu Solomon OnyeaborUchechukwu Solomon Onyeabor1*Okechukwu OnwuasoigweOkechukwu Onwuasoigwe2Wilfred OkenwaWilfred Okenwa3Thorsten SchaafThorsten Schaaf4Niels PinkwartNiels Pinkwart5Felix BalzerFelix Balzer4
  • 1Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Oye, Nigeria
  • 2Department of Orthopaedics, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku/Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria
  • 3Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu, Nigeria
  • 4Institute of Medical Informatics, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • 5Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Given that Nigeria and several developing countries are still at the early stage of digital healthcare interventions adoption (like the use of electronic health records systems) there is scarcity of research/empirical reports investigating the overall user experiences of clinicians, the doctors and the nurses who are or who had been practically engaged with the use of these new digital healthcare support implementations that had engendered new culture across their care reported. The outcome of this investigation has profoundly exposed practical issues that had hitherto stifled and often suffocated electronic health record implementation projects across referral and university teaching hospitals in Nigeria. And given the strategic importance of these hospitals in Nigeria healthcare ecosystem conscious and concerted effort must be made to address them.

Keywords: Challenges and Limitations, electronic health record adoption, healthcare digital transformation, University teaching hospitals, Referral hospitals, clinicians, Developing economies, resource-constrained economies

Received: 30 Aug 2024; Accepted: 02 May 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Onyeabor, Onwuasoigwe, Okenwa, Schaaf, Pinkwart and Balzer. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Uchechukwu Solomon Onyeabor, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Oye, Nigeria

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