Knowledge and Utilization of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) among Health Professionals at Debretabor Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

Incorporation of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in health care system has gained a great momentum of acceptance globally. Thus, ICT adoption in the health system can significantly contribute to improve quality service and accessibility. However, most health care providers in Ethiopia just like other developing countries have underprivileged ICT utilization. The objective of this study is to investigateknowledge, and utilization of Information communication technologyamong health professionals at DebretaborReferralhospital.Methods: -A cross-sectional study was conducted. Study participants selected using simple random sampling. Data collected through self-administered questionnaire. Descriptive and logistic regression techniques were deployed. SPSS20 was used to analysis. Result: -314 participants enrolled in the study giving an overall response rate of 94.9%. The proportion of those who have good utilization habits for ICT was 39.9% and about 87.2% were good ICT knowledge. Age with [AOR: 4.29, 95% CI (1.781-10.329)], educational status (AOR: 7.57, 95% CI 2.047-27.976), ICT training (AOR: 4.92, 95% CI 2.762-8.779), and ICT knowledge (AOR: 9.01, 95% CI 4.014-20.207) were found to be significantly associated with ICT utilization habits of health professionals.Conclusions: -The result suggests that health professional's ICT utilization habit was relatively low. Age, educational status, ICT training and ICT knowledge were factors significantly associated to ICT utilization. Therefore the DebretaborreferralHospital put up ICT training for healthcare in order to accrued from efficient and effective utilization of ICT.