Participatory design for social development: A South African case study on community-based health information systems

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Byrne ◽  
Sundeep Sahay
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Health Information ◽  
South African ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Community Based

Evaluating health information systems: An assessment of frameworks

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohan Jayasuriya
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Information ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Finite Amount ◽  
Positivist Approach

The rapid increase in investments for computerised systems is a major concern for all health organisations. Questions about these investments arise as information technologyis only one of the areas that are competing for a finite amount of resources. There is also some concern that some of the failures of information technology would have been detected if proper evaluation of information systems were conducted. The state of the art of evaluating information systems shows changes from a very positivist approach tomore comprehensive approaches that would incorporate multiple methods. This paperpresents an assessment of the techniques and methods for information systems evaluation, followed by an application to a case study in community health to illustrate the value of the contextualist approach to evaluation. The paper argues for the use of longitudinal, contextualist approaches to information systems evaluation if decision-makers seek to improve the situation of information systems in the health industry.

Utilisation of Health Information Systems for Service Delivery in the Namibian Environment

2016 ◽  
pp. 169-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Karon
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Portable Devices ◽  
The Public

The use of Health Information Systems (HIS) is considered to be a major contributing factor to healthcare service delivery. However, the utilisation of HIS which includes use and management is critically challenging in the public health sector in many developing countries. The manifestation of the challenges results in poor service delivery, which includes patient deaths. This is the main motivation for this study, to investigate how HIS can be used to improve service delivering in the hospitals from developing countries perspective. The study was carried out in Namibia, using two hospitals in the public healthcare. The study adopted the qualitative case study. The study revealed that the use of parallel systems, lack of systems integration, lack of portable devices and users' incompetency are some of the factors which impact the use and management of HIS in hospitals.

A Case Study of Health Information Systems Adoption

2011 ◽  
pp. 164-184
Author(s):  
Dana Schwieger ◽  
Arlyn Melcher ◽  
Ranganathan Chandreasekaran ◽  
H. Joseph Wen
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Medical Organization ◽  
Adaptive Structuration Theory ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Adaptive Structuration

Adaptive structuration theory (AST) is rapidly becoming an important theoretical paradigm for comprehending the impact of advanced information technologies. In this chapter, a modified AST model was designed to illustrate the changing interrelationships among the variables affecting the adoption and application of a new technology into a medical organization setting. Using findings from a case study conducted over a 10-month period, the authors apply the case to the model to illustrate the complex interactions between medical billing technology and organizational processes. As the organization attempted to install and implement the new system, it found that in order to maintain daily operations, it would have to modify and adapt several aspects of the organization, technology and operations. As the system was slowly integrated into operations and the organization’s needs evolved through the adaptation process, the study, in turn, found that different iterations of the model could emphasize different structures. The case illustrated that the capacity to manage health information systems (HIS) often requires the organization to prioritize its needs and focus its energies on a critical structure while temporarily disregarding others until the primary healthcare processes are under control.

scholarly journals Designing for scale: optimising the health information system architecture for mobile maternal health messaging in South Africa (MomConnect)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (Suppl 2) ◽  
pp. e000563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Seebregts ◽  
Pierre Dane ◽  
Annie Neo Parsons ◽  
Thomas Fogwill ◽  
Debbie Rogers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
South African ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
The South ◽  
National Implementation ◽  
Technical Platform

MomConnect is a national initiative coordinated by the South African National Department of Health that sends text-based mobile phone messages free of charge to pregnant women who voluntarily register at any public healthcare facility in South Africa. We describe the system design and architecture of the MomConnect technical platform, planned as a nationally scalable and extensible initiative. It uses a health information exchange that can connect any standards-compliant electronic front-end application to any standards-compliant electronic back-end database. The implementation of the MomConnect technical platform, in turn, is a national reference application for electronic interoperability in line with the South African National Health Normative Standards Framework. The use of open content and messaging standards enables the architecture to include any application adhering to the selected standards. Its national implementation at scale demonstrates both the use of this technology and a key objective of global health information systems, which is to achieve implementation scale. The system’s limited clinical information, initially, allowed the architecture to focus on the base standards and profiles for interoperability in a resource-constrained environment with limited connectivity and infrastructural capacity. Maintenance of the system requires mobilisation of national resources. Future work aims to use the standard interfaces to include data from additional applications as well as to extend and interface the framework with other public health information systems in South Africa. The development of this platform has also shown the benefits of interoperability at both an organisational and technical level in South Africa.

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