Corrigendum to “Modelling the utilization of cloud health information systems in the Iraqi public healthcare sector” [Telematics and Informatics, 36 (2019) 132–146]

The use of new technologies and information systems within healthcare practice provides several advantages and functionalities for healthcare institutions. However, the use of these advanced technologies is not an easy task and the literature has documented several cases of resistance to adopting such technologies by the healthcare staff. Furthermore, governmental reports stated that Iraq healthcare sector is enduring challenges in this regard. For this reason, the current study explored the opinions of healthcare professionals using semi-structured interviews to highlight the important factors and issues that influence the use and adoption of new technologies within Iraq public healthcare sector. To our best knowledge, this empirical study is the first to employ a qualitative approach to address the issue of healthcare information system adoption in Iraq healthcare domain. Twenty six themes have emerged in the findings of this qualitative study which can be helpful for healthcare seniors in order to overcome the present challenges related to the adoption of healthcare information systems and to improve the healthcare practice in general.

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Towards Multi-Agent Health Information Systems

International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications ◽

10.4018/ijehmc.2015100102 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 20-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Andrea Claudi ◽

Paolo Sernani ◽

Aldo Franco Dragoni

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Health Information ◽

New Technologies ◽

Health Information System ◽

Emergency Situation ◽

Health Information Systems ◽

International Standards ◽

Radiology Workflow ◽

Healthcare Sector ◽

Multi Agent

One of the key challenges in the healthcare sector is to adapt Health Information Systems to requirements coming from changing societies. In recent years, governments and international healthcare organizations defined a series of requirements for new generation Health Information Systems: they have to preserve past investments on legacy systems, but must also integrate new technologies, include the patient among their users, and ensure that clinical information are available at all times, even in places far from where information are physically stored. This paper proposes a multi agent-oriented architecture for Health Information Systems, which uses international standards for communication and management of clinical documents. The architecture tries to effectively model a generic healthcare organization, and aims at being easily extensible and adaptable to the particularities of specific healthcare systems. The authors present two experimental scenarios to test the proposed multi-agent health information system. In the first, they show how to model a specific use case, a radiology workflow, using agents and well-known standards; in the second one the authors demonstrate how a mobile application can use the services provided by the agents to support the medical staff in an emergency situation.

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

Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration - Maximizing Healthcare Delivery and Management through Technology Integration ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-9446-0.ch011 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 169-183 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

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.

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

BMJ Global Health ◽

10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000563 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (Suppl 2) ◽

pp. e000563 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

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

Health Care Delivery and Clinical Science ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3926-1.ch044 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 869-883

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.

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

Healthcare Policy and Reform ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-6915-2.ch019 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 398-412

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.

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