Barriers to adoption of information technology in healthcare

Healthcare is an important pillar of society, critical for effectively responding to public health emergencies, and addressing disease, ill health, and poverty brought on by communicable disease and non communicable disease and cancer [7]. The increasing need for cost effective, time effective, and preventive healthcare is forcing radical changes in current healthcare systems, requiring them to take full advantage of capabilities of modern technology, including information technology. However, this is not straightforward. Despite constant advances in modern information technology, adoption in healthcare is very slow.