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May 1, 2012

Review of Developing Country Health Information Systems

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Global

A high level review to identify Health Enterprise Architecture assets in ten African countries. This project was commissioned by Jembi Health Systems as part of the Health Enterprise Architecture project funded by grants from the IDRC (Open Architectures, Standards and Information Systems (OASIS II) - Developing Capacity, Sharing Knowledge and Good Principles Across eHealth in Africa. Grant Number: 105708), the Rockefeller Foundation (Open eHealth Enterprise Architecture Framework and Strategy Development for the Global South; Grant Number: 2009 THS 328).

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Feb 13, 2013

Improving the use of health data for health system strengthening

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Global

Good quality and timely data from health information systems are the foundation of all health systems. However, too often data sit in reports, on shelves or in databases and are not sufficiently utilised in policy and program development, improvement, strategic planning and advocacy. Without specific interventions aimed at improving the use of data produced by information systems, health systems will never fully be able to meet the needs of the populations they serve.

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Apr 1, 2009

From Tasks To Processes: The Case For Changing Health Information Technology To Improve Health Care

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Global

To deliver better health care at a lower cost, health information technology (IT) should be redesigned to support improved, patient-centered care and not the isolated tasks of physicians and clinicians. This new approach has major policy implications: health IT can help mitigate the worsening shortages of physicians; it will require managers, clinicians, and patients to learn new skills and behaviors; it will increase the need for clinically astute systems analysts, business-process managers, and human-factors engineers; and it will highlight the need to pay for process improvements and improved patient well-being rather than the mere purchase of health IT.

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Mar 1, 2009

Costs And Benefits Of Health Information Technology: New Trends From The Literature


To understand what is new in health information technology (IT), we updated a systematic review of health IT with studies published during 2004–2007. From 4,683 titles, 179 met inclusion criteria. We identified a proliferation of patient-focused applications although little formal evaluation in this area; more descriptions of commercial electronic health records (EHRs) and health IT systems designed to run independently from EHRs; and proportionately fewer relevant studies from the health IT leaders. Accelerating the adoption of health IT will require greater public-private partnerships, new policies to address the misalignment of financial incentives, and a more robust evidence base regarding IT implementation.

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Aug 5, 2015

Webinar: Introduction to OpenHIE and Interoperability for National Information Systems

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Global

The Better Immunization Data Learning Network (BLN) recently held a webinar entitled “Introduction to OpenHIE and Interoperability for National Information Systems”. The presentation gave an introduction to the OpenHIE community, the concept of interoperability between solutions and showed how these patterns have been used in a national scale information system in South Africa, including linking systems to exchange data to DHIS.

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Apr 16, 2015

Webinar: Rolling Out a Nationwide Web-Based DHIMS2 in Ghana

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Ghana

This webinar focused on the practical aspects of rolling out a nationwide web-based district health information system (DHIMS2) in Ghana. The presenters highlighted the opportunities and challenges as they have encountered them in Ghana, and elaborated on important lessons that they have learned. They addressed critical issues of implementing a maternal/child register and the webinar should be of interest to both technical and non-technical personnel with an interest in setting up immunization registries in an African context.

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Feb 12, 2015

BLN Webinar: Successful Implementation of a Health Information Software

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Mali

The Better Immunization Data Learning Network (BLN) recently held a webinar entitled Successful implementation of a Health information Software. In this webinar, the speakers shared Mali’ experience implementing health information software. The presentation took the audience through: the software identification process, including identifying and involving stakeholders and effective communication; key implementation steps; and software deployment and related activities.

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Dec 10, 2012

Improving data quality in The African Region

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Global

  • Data quality is one of the 4 IVD priority in AFRO
  • Existence of robust DM system at different level
  • There is more interest on data quality than ever (Opportunity)
  • Good data = good decision, wrong data = wrong decision
  • Need data to monitor goals at all levels (Country, Region, Global)
  • Data management has not enjoyed deserved recognition from EPI Manager on staff allocation (skills)
  • Recommendations from TFI as well as EPI managers’ meetings

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Sep 1, 2012

Defining Functional Requirements for Immunization Information Systems

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Global

This document contains the products of three workgroup sessions to collaboratively and rigorously define a full range of important IIS functions, referred to here as business processes. This detailed documentation for seventeen such business processes is intended to establish best practice for how an IIS should function in an increasingly e‐health world.

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