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Published in final edited form as: Afr J Emerg Med. 2017 May 25;7(4):177–182. doi: 10.1016/j.afjem.2017.05.002

Table 4.

Suggestions to overcome barriers.

Themes	Quotes
Provision of adequate logistics	“Printers should be in the screening room so that as soon as you print you get it, management should purchase additional scanner to make work faster. More options should be considered in terms of software application development to catch up with the fast changing world. A bigger office space should be provided by the hospital. So we need to get power back up. The data should be backup all the time as often as possibly, preferably, automatic. There should be constant backup to save the system from crashing” (interviewee 22) “They should put in re-encounter feature to avoid duplication, possible duplication of entries” (interviewee 2) “Instead of typing, they can try a speech-to-text engine so that instead of them typing, they will talk into microphone or mobile device to do typing. Also instead of typing into text boxes; we can check boxes, radio boxes and combo boxes-selection boxes” (interviewee 20)
Motivation	“Motivate or provide adequate motivation when and where need be” (interviewee 19) “There should be training, sensitisation and creating awareness among health workers-new workers and existing workers to avoid future redundancy. This should be continued for staff to be abreast with new development in IT field” (interviewee 11) “Very open door policies so opinion leaders, say hospital administration, chief executive officer, Ghana Health Service, Ministry of Health, office of the president; so everybody to understand” (interviewee 23)

Themes

Quotes

Provision of adequate logistics

“Printers should be in the screening room so that as soon as you print you get it, management should purchase additional scanner to make work faster. More options should be considered in terms of software application development to catch up with the fast changing world. A bigger office space should be provided by the hospital. So we need to get power back up. The data should be backup all the time as often as possibly, preferably, automatic. There should be constant backup to save the system from crashing” (interviewee 22)
“They should put in re-encounter feature to avoid duplication, possible duplication of entries” (interviewee 2)
“Instead of typing, they can try a speech-to-text engine so that instead of them typing, they will talk into microphone or mobile device to do typing. Also instead of typing into text boxes; we can check boxes, radio boxes and combo boxes-selection boxes” (interviewee 20)

Motivation

“Motivate or provide adequate motivation when and where need be” (interviewee 19)
“There should be training, sensitisation and creating awareness among health workers-new workers and existing workers to avoid future redundancy. This should be continued for staff to be abreast with new development in IT field” (interviewee 11)
“Very open door policies so opinion leaders, say hospital administration, chief executive officer, Ghana Health Service, Ministry of Health, office of the president; so everybody to understand” (interviewee 23)