Sajedeh Rahdar, Mahdieh Montazeri, Moghadameh Mirzaee, Leila Ahmadian
The relationship between e-health literacy and information technology acceptance, and the willingness to share personal and health information among pregnant women
International journal of medical informatics
telemedicine reinforced position means continuity healthcare services costeffective approach improving health equity demonstrated covid19 pandemic preparedness health systems telemedicine indicator scalability services especially catastrophes aimed assess maturity preparedness federally funded tertiary health institutions nigeria deploy telemedicine data currently lacking required drive improvements health services delivery conducted crosssectional survey thirty randomly selected federally funded tertiary health institutions nigeria using pan american health organizations tool assessing maturity level health institutions implement telemedicine 17 september 2020 1 september 2021 descriptive statistics used overall maturity levels nonparametric tests compare scores overall maturity specific pan american health organization domains per region level significance set pvalue 005 response rate 774 24 30 randomly polled federally funded tertiary health institutions responded overall median telemedicine maturity level 20 175 indicating beginner level significant interzonal difference median overall maturity level p 087 median maturity levels telemedicine readiness specific domains organizational readiness 20 20 processes 10 10 digital environment 20 30 human resources 20 10 regulatory issues 15 10 expertise 20 20 mostly beginner level interzonal differences participating institutions initiatives place domains processes regulatory issues current telemedicine maturity level federally funded tertiary health institutions nigeria beginner level behoves policymakers advance implementation deployment telemedicine nationwide part digital quality healthcare improve health equity ensure continuity healthcare services event another pandemic