Digital Health in Indonesian Nursing: A Scoping Review

Digital health is rapidly changing healthcare delivery. The work of nurses, key users of information and information systems, is changing, and nurses must be digitally literate, possessing skills to influence the design, development, and implementation of digital systems. Indonesia is a geographically diverse country and witnessing increasing digital health capability. To establish baseline knowledge, this review explored what is currently about digital health in Indonesian nursing and how prepared nurses are for increasing digitalization and its impacts.

A scoping review was undertaken with five databases searched. No date range was applied.

Twenty-two studies were included, 72.7% were published after 2020, and 68.2% were conducted on the island of Java. From content analysis, three categories were identified: (1) nurses' readiness for digital health; (2) supporting specific healthcare needs; and (3) health information systems. Varied levels of readiness of nurses for digital health were reported. Nurses engaged in mobile application development to support patients with specific clinical conditions in the community and development and implementation of hospital information systems, particularly around nursing diagnosis, planning, and documentation.

Indonesian nurses are engaging in digital health, and more training is required for nursing students and qualified nurses to fully utilize digital health.