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Abstract

Telemedicine has proven to be a success in some developed countries. This assumption has been backed by over 12,000 reviewed articles which have been published during the past 25 years. Unfortunately, despite being a useful and thriving area of Information Systems research, Telehealth has not been fully implemented in the developing countries owing to several factors which have militated against it. In this paper, we adapted to using combinational approaches and guidelines to provide a systematic way to establish factors affecting telemedicine adoption for health workers and establish suitable theoretical model for telemedicine adoption. Although there are a quite number of guidelines for conducting such reviews in other research fields, few entirely meet the unique needs of Information Systems research. In response to this shortage of guidelines, we present here the attributes and significance of telemedicine adoption model in the context of IS domain. The outcome of the study is expected to establish a suitable theoretical model that will investigate the obvious barrier affecting telemedicine implementation and provide recommendation for health care providers.