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Integrating and scaling Health Information Systems in Africa – the case of Sierra Leone
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | In this paper we address the problem of how to integrate health information systems in low-income African countries within which technical infrastructure and human resources vary significantly. We describe a set of tools to meet the needs of different service areas including managing aggregate indicators, patient level record systems, and mobile tools for community outreach. We present an architectural approach that facilitates the provision of services at each level of the health system (national, regional, facility and community) and provide different configurations of the tools as appropriate for the individual area. The architecture is bound together using an emerging open standard for aggregate health data to define the flows of data and metadata. Using an action research methodology, we present findings on the implementation of this approach in Sierra Leone. In our concluding remarks we observe that the successful implementation of our architectural approach has had significant secondary effects outside of the immediate setting of the case study.. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://developmentinformatics.org/conferences/2010/papers/saebo.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
