Healthcare personnel's use of e-information sources in Riyadh governmental hospitals

Department of Information Science, College of Arts, King Saud University, P.O. Box 17965, Riyadh 11494, Saudi Arabia Email: khudair@lboro.ac.ukICT has enabled a wide dissemination of information and a sharp increase in the magnitude of electronic information sources. The use of e-information sources by healthcare personnel within Saudi Arabia has received little research attention. This paper discusses the use of e-information sources by healthcare personnel in the kingdom. A questionnaire with open-ended questions was designed to collect data from eleven governmental hospitals and health centres in Riyadh. It identified a range of problems and obstacles that impact on the use of electronic information sources. The identification of these difficulties opens the way for development and improvement of the current situation