Ayomide J. Owoyemi

• MBChB. MSc. PhD
• University of Illinois Chicago

The rapid expansion of digital health solutions in Africa, encompassing telemedicine, AI, and other technologies, aligns with WHO’s Goals for Sustainable Development and Universal Health Coverage. Despite its benefits, this growth raises ethical concerns regarding deploying these technologies. A cross-sectional survey targeting executives of Nigeri...

Accessing accurate medication insights is vital for enhancing patient safety, minimizing errors, and supporting clinical decision-making. However, healthcare professionals in Africa often rely on manual and time-consuming processes to retrieve drug information, exacerbated by limited access to pharmacists due to brain drain and healthcare dispariti...

Background: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care settings demands a nuanced approach that considers both technical performance and sociotechnical factors. Objective: This study aimed to develop a checklist that addresses the sociotechnical aspects of AI deployment in health care and provides a structured, holistic guide...

Objectives Research on the Epic Sepsis System (ESS) has predominantly focused on technical accuracy, neglecting the user experience of healthcare professionals. Understanding these experiences is crucial for the design of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in clinical settings. This study aims to explore the socio-technical dynamics affecting ESS...

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare settings de-mands a nuanced approach that considers both technical performance and soci-otechnical factors. Recognizing this, our study introduces the Clinical AI Soci-otechnical Framework (CASoF), developed through literature synthesis, and re-fined via a Modified Delphi study involving...

This study underscores the complexities of implementing AI in clinical care, advocating for a holistic approach that combines technical and sociotechnical elements. It stresses aligning AI tool values with health care provider and patient needs, ensuring enhancement of patient care, compliance with standards, and seamless workflow integration. Chal...

Description of the Problem or Gap Despite its prevalence, Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID (PASC) diagnosis is challenging due to symptom variability, often overlapping with other conditions, leading to under-diagnosis, especially in minority and underserved communities. 1 , 2 Our research focuses on developing an advanced detection model to improve th...

Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly being implemented in clinical settings, but there are inadequate studies evaluating the human, social, and organizational aspects of their integration, performance, and usage. Additionally, there is a lack of holistic frameworks for the implementation of AI systems in clinical spaces. Th...

The uptake of health insurance has been poor in Nigeria, a significant step to improving this includes improved awareness, access to information and tools to support decision making. Artificial intelligence (AI) based recommender systems have gained popularity in helping individuals find movies, books, music, and different types of products on the...

Introduction: Commercially available wearable devices for physical activity (PA) monitoring may provide objective data to facilitate assessment of NYHA class in patients with heart failure (HF). However, there is limited research exploring their ability to differentiate patients between NYHA classes. Objective: This study aims to assess the relatio...

Objective The main objective of this study was to examine the association between COVID-19 information search activities and vaccination intention. Methods Cross-sectional data were collected using online surveys. Independent variables included COVID-19 information search on the 1) science of viral effects of COVID-19 on the body, 2) origin of COV...

Objectives: The objective of this study was to examine the association between several country-level systemic indices and the deaths from COVID-19 across African countries. Method: Regression analyses were conducted to test the association between selected indices and deaths from COVID-19 across African countries. All tests were run at the α = 0.0...

The agenda for Universal Health Coverage has driven the exploration of various innovative approaches to expanding health services to the general population. As more African countries have adopted digital health tools as part of the strategic approach to expanding health services, there is a need for defining a standard framework for implementation...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a scourge upon humanity, claiming the lives of more than 5.1 million people worldwide; the global economy contracted by 3.5% in 2020. This paper presents a COVID-19 calculator, synthesizing existing published calculators and data points, to measure the positive U.S. socio-economic impact of a COVID-19 AI/ML pre-screen...

The epidemic control measures of COVID involve contact tracing, isolation, and quarantining. Having a good understanding of the epidemiology of the disease is important in guiding these public health measures to detect, control and prevent the spread of the disease. The aim of this study is to determine the incubation period and contagious period o...

Community-level strategies are important in ensuring adequate control of disease outbreaks especially in sub-Saharan African countries. Learning from public health responses to previous infectious disease outbreaks is important in shaping these responses to COVID-19. This study aims to highlight and summarize the evidence from community-level inter...

The healthcare landscape in Africa has undergone significant changes, thanks to the recent technological advances such as access to the Internet, cloud computing, alternate energy source, and improved smartphone uptake. This adoption of technology as a tool has in recent times included artificial intelligence. The usage of artificial intelligence i...

This randomized controlled trial aims to determine the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a patient-centered, mobile health technology intervention (iCardia4HF) in patients with chronic HF. Participants (n = 92) are recruited and randomized 1:1 to the intervention or control group. The intervention group receives a commercial HF self-care app...

COVID-19 has rapidly spread across the globe and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). The COVID-19 infection continues to spread across Africa. In Africa, mobile phone applications have been used for the surveillance and reporting of infectious diseases such as malaria, measles, polio, and other notifiable diseases as man...

Introduction Self-efficacy and health beliefs are important modifiable factors influencing adherence to self-care behaviors in patients with heart failure (HF). Text messaging (TM) is a low-cost and scalable solution for delivering behavior change intervention and improving patient outcomes, yet it is largely unexplored in patients with HF. Hypothe...

Introduction: the threat of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic to health systems and communities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is enormous. Social approaches such as distancing measures are essential components of the public health response to respiratory-related infectious disease outbreaks. Due to socio-economic and broader peculiari...

Introduction: the threat of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic to health systems and communities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is enormous. Social approaches such as distancing measures are essential components of the public health response to respiratory-related infectious disease outbreaks. Due to socio-economic and broader peculiarit...

Nigeria’s health indices rank among the worst in the world, with a perennially underfunded health sector. Nigeria’s oil-dependent economy is currently struggling, having recently emerged from a recession, due in part to the fall in prices of crude oil in the global market. In this commentary, we explore the Nigerian health financing landscape, and...

With over a billion people, Africa can be better positioned to surmount its health challenges especially regarding maternal and child health and infectious and non-communicable diseases using digital technology including artificial intelligence (AI). The usage of AI in Africa has only seen a few pilots and test cases in human resource planning, chi...

Despite the enormous benefits of vaccination, global immunisation coverage progress has stalled and remains suboptimal in many countries. In this commentary, we review the recently published update of the World Health Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund Estimates of National Immunization Coverage (WUENIC). We highlight trends in which,...

High level of noise is a disturbance to the human environment. Noise in industries is also an occupational hazard because of its attendant effects on workers' health. Noise presents health and social problems in industrial operations, and the source is related to the machineries used in the industries. One of the unique features of the noise associ...

High level of noise is a disturbance to the human environment. Noise in industries is also an occupational hazard because of its attendant effects on workers' health. Noise presents health and social problems in industrial operations, and the source is related to the machineries used in the industries. One of the unique features of the noise associ...

Background and Objective: Nigeria was unable to meet the Millennium Development Goal target for child mortality. Progress has been hampered by a host of factors which include poor maternal response to childhood illness and inappropriate health-seeking behaviours. This study was done to assess the health-seeking behaviours for infants by caregivers...

High level of noise is a disturbance to the human environment. Noise in industries is also an occupational hazard because of its attendant effects on workers’ health. Noise presents health and social problems in industrial operations, and the source is related to the machineries used in the industries. One of the unique features of the noise associ...