• Igbo Gabriel Alobo, Tolulope Soyannwo, Godwin Ukponwan, Simon Akogu, Abubakar Matthew Akpa, and Kazeem Ayankola.
• Maternal Health Department Jhpiego an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University Nigeria field office.
• Afr Health Sci. 2020 Jun 1; 20 (2): 948-954.

BackgroundPerspectives on the pioneering work of Electronic Health Recording (EHR) system in Nigeria was studied.ObjectivesTo determine health workers perception, challenges, motivation and satisfaction with EHR.MethodologyThis was a descriptive cross sectional study using structured questionnaire to assess health workers perspective on EHR system at Kogi State Specialist Hospital.ResultsA total of 35 consenting health workers with an mean age of 39.4(± 7.6) years using EHR were assessed. The mean daily work hour was 8.0(± 2.4 hours) and median client load per participant was 20 daily. On perceptions, 74.3%, 52.9%, 45.5% and 60.0% were comfortable, well-motivated, satisfied and competent with EHR. The advantages were reduction in transcription cost (88.5%), Paper work (97.1%), administrative cost (91.4%), errors (82.9%) and it captures, provides more services including timely access and ease research in 94.3%, 74.3%, 94.3% and 82.9% respectively. Challenges were threat to patient privacy, poor internet, information overload, power outages, incomplete and inaccurate information in 17.0%, 65.7%, 31.5%, 62.9%, 37.1% and 22.9% respectively.ConclusionHealth workers were comfortable and satisfied with EHR and it eased their work.Scaling up EHR would reduce administrative cost, transcription errors and paper works to mitigate poor quality data from Nigeria a great contributor to global morbidities/mortalities.© 2020 Alobo IG et al.

14 keywords...

hide…