Dissertations / Theses: 'Health Information services'

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Khudair, Ahmad A. "Health sciences libraries : information services and ICTs." Thesis, City University London, 2005. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/11881/.

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In Saudi Arabia the need is recognised significantly to move towards the concept of an Information Society, particularly for the benefit of the healthcare community. There have been some individual efforts, in this direction but they do not address the problem and related root issues. The problem is that the body and soul are not joined as one to formulate a single entity. The health professional is the body and the soul is the health information professional (health librarians). Health professionals spend a great deal of time in information searching, while the health information professional's role is underestimated. This research is conducted to explore the state of health sciences libraries, and to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of the Information Services and Information, Communication Technology (ICT) in health sciences libraries in the capital city of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh. To accomplish this, a mixed method is used (qualitative and quantitative approaches) to collect related data. A framework is designed particularly for this research and a visionary organisational model is designed initially and developed throughout the research. This proposed model is to introduce a potentially possible successful paradigm for changing the health sciences libraries environment to encounter future challenges. In addition, for this research will contribute to the better understanding of how to provide fast, efficient and easy-to-use service to increase user satisfaction. Changing the paradigm of health sciences libraries in Riyadh will facilitate better access, sharing and use of information resources from distant geographical locations, and increase participation opportunities. In addition, the proposed model considers the human and social needs of communication, and the exchange of feelings and reactions. Importantly, successful change will help healthcare environments to move towards the establishment of a flourishing health information society by popularising the use of electronic resources and demonstrating the benefits and advantages of continuous learning and development programmes. It is clear that access to fast. accurate and reliable health information and resources, may be, the difference between life and death.

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Catchpole, C. P. "Information systems design for the community health services." Thesis, Aston University, 1987. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10620/.

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This system is concerned with the design and implementation of a community health information system which fulfils some of the local needs of fourteen nursing and para-medical professions in a district health authority, whilst satisfying the statutory requirements of the NHS Korner steering group for those professions. A national survey of community health computer applications, documented in the form of an applications register, shows the need for such a system. A series of general requirements for an informations systems design methodology are identified, together with specific requirements for this problem situation. A number of existing methodologies are reviewed, but none of these were appropriate for this application. Some existing approaches, tools and techniques are used to define a more suitable methodology. It is unreasonable to rely on one single general methodology for all types of application development. There is a need for pragmatism, adaptation and flexibility. In this research, participation in the development stages by those who will eventually use the system was thought desirable. This was achieved by forming a representative design group. Results would seem to show a highly favourable response from users to this participation which contributed to the overall success of the system implemented. A prototype was developed for the chiropody and school nursing staff groups of Darlington health authority, and evaluations show that a significant number of the problems and objectives of those groups have been successfully addressed; the value of community health information has been increased; and information has been successfully fed back to staff and better utilised.

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Gremu, Chikumbutso David. "Building an E-health system for health awareness campaigns in poor areas." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017930.

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Appropriate e-services as well as revenue generation capabilities are key to the deployment and the sustainability for ICT installations in poor areas, particularly common in developing country. The area of e-Health is a promising area for e-services that are both important to the population in those areas and potentially of direct interest to National Health Organizations, which already spend money for Health campaigns there. This thesis focuses on the design, implementation, and full functional testing of HealthAware, an application that allows health organization to set up targeted awareness campaigns for poor areas. Requirements for such application are very specific, starting from the fact that the preparation of the campaign and its execution/consumption happen in two different environments from a technological and social point of view. Part of the research work done for this thesis was to make the above requirements explicit and then use them in the design. This phase of the research was facilitated by the fact that the thesis' work was executed within the context of the Siyakhula Living Lab (SLL; www.siyakhulaLL.org), which has accumulated multi-year experience of ICT deployment in such areas. As a result of the found requirements, HealthAware comprises two components, which are web-based, Java applications that run in a peer-to-peer fashion. The first component, the Dashboard, is used to create, manage, and publish information for conducting awareness campaigns or surveys. The second component, HealthMessenger, facilitates users' access to the campaigns or surveys that were created using the Dashboard. The HealthMessenger was designed to be hosted on TeleWeaver while the Dashboard is hosted independently of TeleWeaver and simply communicates with the HealthMessenger through webservices. TeleWeaver is an application integration platform developed within the SLL to host software applications for poor areas. Using a core service of TeleWeaver, the profile service, where all the users' defining elements are contained, campaigns and surveys can be easily and effectively targeted, for example to match specific demographics or geographic locations. Revenue generation is attained via the logging of the interactions of the target users in the communities with the applications in TeleWeaver, from which billing data is generated according to the specific contractual agreements with the National Health Organization. From a general point of view, HealthAware contributes to the concrete realizations of a bidirectional access channel between Health Organizations and users in poor communities, which not only allows the communication of appropriate content in both directions, but get 'monetized' and in so doing becomes a revenue generator.

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Atueyi, Kene Chukwu. "Implementing management information systems in the National Health Service." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 1991. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/4990/.

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As a discipline Management Information System (MIS) is relatively new. Its short history has been characterised with epistemological dialectism. The current conflict and debate about MIS inquiry is broadly between the advocates of the social systems and technical systems perspectives. Few authors have made positive contributions toward clarifying the meaning and nature of MIS, and the appropriate design framework for MIS development. This thesis adds to their effort by using a MIS designed and implemented through action research at the North Western Regional Health Authority. There are seven Chapters in this thesis. Chapters One and Two examine the nature of the problem addressed by this research; the project history, ontological assumptions and research strategy. Chapter Three examines the debate, nature and conflicting views about MIS. It defines the theoretical problem addressed by this thesis and proposes a new concept of MIS. The theoretical problems are dealt with in Chapter Four. In Chapter Five the application of the theoretical concepts developed in Chapter Four is demonstrated in the design of MIS. Chapter Six relates some of the findings of this thesis to the work of other authors. It also examines the problem of human inquiry and the suitability of action research for MIS research. The main findings of this research summarised in Chapter Seven provide a new perspective of MIS as a purposeful system; the taxonomy of purposeful systems; primary context and secondary context of MIS; context analysis and context evaluation of MIS.

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Irozuru, E. C. "Information systems in district health authorities : a strategy for management." Thesis, University of Salford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299129.

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Bekui, A. M. "A health management information system for the district health services in Ghana." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1990. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492369.

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Kabakian-Khasholian, Tamar. "Improving women's health postpartum : the impact of provision of written information." Thesis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269771.

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Khan, Jahanzeb, and Muzammal Shahzad Arif. "Investigating the behaviour intention to use e-health services by Swedish Immigrants." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-39574.

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Field, Kenneth Spencer. "Modelling health care utilization : an applied Geographical Information Systems approach." Thesis, University of Northampton, 1998. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/2708/.

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This research has emanated from the geographical concerns raised by organisational change in the British National Health Service (NHS), namely the ongoing debate relating to health and health care inequalities. This thesis develops a flexible, portable and predictive model of health care utilization capable of assisting improved health care planning and analysis. In so doing it contributes to the current resurgence in medical geography. An applied approach to this research is identified which builds upon methods of modelling spatial patterns and processes in geography and the upsurge of interest in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology. In these terms, the use of GIS is central to the research; it supports construction and application of the model; facilitates a wide range of analyses; and provides a basis for visualisation and interpretation of model results. The value of modelling in analysing relationships between health inequalities and the location and allocation of health care is identified through a discussion of previous NHS policy initiatives and previous research. From this, a conceptual model of utilization is developed which incorporates components of need, accessibility and provision. A patient survey of asthmatics and diabetics informs the development of the model and validates the choice of indicators used to measure utilization. Indicators of need, accessibility and utilization are thus defined and subsequently measured using a signed chi-square scoring method. The model was developed and tested for primary care General Practitioner services in the Northampton District Health Authority area and outcome measures are proposed and evaluated. Rigorous testing of the model’s sensitivity and robustness is undertaken and potential for its simplification explored. Components are critically evaluated through a comparison with alternative methods of determining spatial inequalities in disadvantage. The potential of the model of utilization for health care planning and analysis is extensively demonstrated through the application of a variety of modelled scenarios. Emergent issues from the research are considered and potential for future geographical research in this area of study, and the impact upon research agendas more generally, is explored

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LeGrow, Tracy L. "Access to health information and health care decision-making of women in a rural Appalachian community." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2007. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=746.

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Stanley, Michael J. "The effect of change on the National Health Service general managers' information needs." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2001. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20820/.

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The research enquiry using a sample of 20 NHS organisations with similar revenue and population characteristic profiles sets out to identify the information needs of the NHS General Managers and in doing so highlight the information that they need to meet their organisations' key success factors. The research identifies through the enquiry process the General Managers' information needs and describes the categories of those needs, the pressures and influences of the General Managers' working environment on those needs and the links to the influences that have been reflected in their information needs. In particular the external influence of the Department of Health and the business environment has not only changed the General Managers' information needs but affected the balance of power between the stakeholders, which in turn has affected those information needs. These organisational and environmental changes, health policies, stakeholder demands, and changes in the balance of power between the stakeholders has resulted in a change in the way in which the General Managers work with information, which has in turn increased the need for more accurate, timely and complex information. The research analyses the General Managers' understanding of their roles in the General Manager/patient/doctor relationship and analyses the potential areas of conflict arising when the patients' interests clash with the market-led (business) interests of the healthcare organisations and the diverse needs of the Provider, Purchaser and Regional Executive General Managers. These problems together with the effects of organisational resistance, organisational culture clash and system requirements and its effect on the information needs of the General Managers were examined for associated links with the difficulties that the General Managers experience in defining their information requirements. The research provides an understanding of the links between a market-led healthcare environment, the General Managers' information needs, and their attitude towards information as well as an understanding as to whether the patient, a key stakeholder, has benefited in the healthcare empowerment stakes as a result of the re-delineation of the General Managers' information needs and the impact upon their decision making. The information needs identified as a result of the research have shown them to have become business orientated with financial targets as a key measure and clinical performance (outcomes) increasingly being seen as the other key factor as an indication of success for the organisation. The hypothesis (Null Hypothesis) of the research asserts that it is not possible to link a market-led healthcare environment, the General Managers' information needs, their attitudes and behaviour towards information, and patient empowerment in such a way as to develop a model of information needs that is common across the Purchaser, Provider and the NHS Executive organisations. However, the research has developed as a first step, a series of outline models of information needs that will lead to a more complex and common model of information needs across the General Managers' organisational groups that will allow, when assessed against key success factors, a judgmental view of the ability of both the General Managers and their organisations to deliver their aims and objectives.

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Morton, Mary Elizabeth Wiedenbeck Susan McCain Katherine Wootton. "Use and acceptance of an electronic health record : factors affecting physician attitudes /." Philadelphia, Pa. : Drexel University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1860/2905.

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McLean, Sheila Ann Manson. "Information disclosure, consent to medical treatment and the law." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298800.

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Frascina, Anthony Cosimo. "The integration of hospital information systems through user centred design." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 1994. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/3185/.

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The development of computer systems in UK hospitals has in recent years been focused on the provision of hospital-wide information systems, known as Hospital Information Support Systems (HISS). This development has been motivated by National Health Service reforms and a realisation that earlier fragmented systems were not meeting the requirements of clinical and nursing staff in the most effective way. Such systems were often developed by external, centralised agencies using systems analysis techniques appropriate to the development of information systems in product orientated organisations. However, the hospital ward, an environment existing at the 'sharp end' of health care, in which many diverse and non-computer related activities take place, presents the system designer with many of the classic problems with which the discipline of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is concerned. Although a HISS has the potential to improve both the work conditions of clinical staff and the delivery of health care, this may be impeded by many of the common obstacles associated with the introduction of a large and complex computer system into a work environment where tasks are ill defined. This thesis reports on a project that is based upon the application of HCI methods to the health care environment and their contribution to the solution of the problems that such an environment presents. Requirements for the users' interface to the potential HISS are derived using a task analytic approach, involving Task Analysis for Knowledge Descriptions (TAKD). A prototype system has been designed and subsequently evaluated in a hospital ward. The contribution of TAKD to the design and its further applicability to the environment are assessed. The research represents an original application of a formal task analysis method to the design of ward based computer systems, and as such makes a valuable contribution to the areas of medical informatics and HCI. It shows that TAKD has real but limited applicability in this sphere, in that its use can lead to the design of more usable interfaces, while there is a need to combine it with methods aimed at broader systems design if these benefits are to accrue in the development of a HISS. The potential for the integration of task analysis with Design Rationale methods is also demonstrated.

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Hepburn, Robert Cameron. "Environmental epidemiology in primary care using a geographic information system." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268876.

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Stahl-Timmins, William Marck. "Information graphics in health technology assessment." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/4026.

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This thesis addresses the question of the design, production and use of information graphics in health technology assessment (HTA). Drawing on previous research in both information design and health policy, it describes a comprehensive design process for creating new visual presentations that can inform health policy-makers. The thesis begins by introducing, and functionally defining the terms ‘information graphics’ and ‘health technology assessment’ in Chapter 1. It then offers a methodological discussion of how research can be performed at the intersection between these two diverse fields. This discussion forms Chapter 2 of the thesis. The context of use is surveyed in two studies, which are presented in Chapter 3. These assess the current use of information graphics in HTA, and the information needs of health policy decision-making bodies. This enables a needs-based approach to the design of 10 information graphics, that could be used in hta. These are shown in Chapter 4. Finally, two of these information graphics are empirically tested with two further research studies, forming Chapter 5 and Chapter 6. The thesis is aimed at giving practical advice to those wanting to produce graphical presentations of information in HTA, and to provide the foundation for further original research in information design and HTA. Chapter 7 draws together the research from the rest of the thesis, to make recommendations in light of the combined findings.

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Al-umaran, Saleh. "Culture dimensions of information systems security in Saudi Arabia national health services." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/11393.

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The study of organisations’ information security cultures has attracted scholars as well as healthcare services industry to research the topic and find appropriate tools and approaches to develop a positive culture. The vast majority of studies in Saudi national health services are on the use of technology to protect and secure health services information. On the other hand, there is a lack of research on the role and impact of an organisation’s cultural dimensions on information security. This research investigated and analysed the role and impact of cultural dimensions on information security in Saudi Arabia health service. Hypotheses were tested and two surveys were carried out in order to collect data and information from three major hospitals in Saudi Arabia (SA). The first survey identified the main cultural-dimension problems in SA health services and developed an initial information security culture framework model. The second survey evaluated and tested the developed framework model to test its usefulness, reliability and applicability. The model is based on human behaviour theory, where the individual’s attitude is the key element of the individual’s intention to behave as well as of his or her actual behaviour. The research identified a set of cultural and sub-cultural dimensions in SA health information security and services.

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Carter, Nakia, and Rick Wallace. "Collaborating with Public Libraries, Public Health Departments, and Rural Hospitals to Provide Consumer Health Information Services." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8682.

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East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine Library (ETSUQCOML) developed a training program to enable public libraries, public health workers, and rural hospital staff to be consumer health information providers. Four NN/LM-developed classes were taught to public libraries. Regional public library directors were invaluable in obtaining the concurrence of their boards for release time for class attendance. Classes were also developed for the public health workforce and rural hospital staff. Five-hundred thirty-three students attended the classes. Fifty-two public library workers will receive the MLA's Consumer Health Information Specialist certification. Thirty-one public libraries have joined NN/LM. All ordered MedlinePlus marketing materials for their libraries from InformationRx.org.

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McCluney, Jacqueline Hilary. "Community implementation of local food and health policy : an investigation into the use and dissemination of nutrition information to encourage healthy eating within the local community, with particular reference to primary health care." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327985.

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Maguire, Stuart. "The development of a methodology for the introduction of information systems within the National Health Service." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287250.

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This thesis represents over five years of research focusing on the development and implementation of information systems within the National Health SefV1ce. It aims to contribute towards a better understanding of the information systems development process from inception through to system evaluation and review. Five long-term interventions have been undertaken in a range of National Health Service sites, examining different aspects of information provision. The length of the interventions ranged from nine months to almost two years. The five sites were all at different stages of system development. The research has been carried out using a combination of participant observation and action research. This has meant working with National Health Service staff on a series of system projects. The aim of the research is to try and help National Health Service (NHS) organisations deal more successfully with their information provision. The research question asks, "how can NHS organisations think about, and hence go about their information provision in such a way that successful information systems are introduced'!". Information systems development has generally been regarded as a technical discipline. This has led to a narrow view being taken of a number of areas that may affect the success or otherwise of system projects. Historically, the system development process has been concentrated in the hands of a small number of experts even though the implementation of systems can have far-reaching consequences for the organIsation. The output of the research is a set of issues that should be addressed when introducing information systems within the NHS. These have been translated into the OASES materials which form the appendices. OASES is not a prescriptive methodology but a set of principles and guidelines to try and improve the way that information systems are developed within the NHS. It IS hoped that the outcome of the research will be a situation in which effective information systems are developed that take account of the behavioural, cultural, and organisational issues that are important within complex organisations.

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Matsuda, Sandra J. "Information-seeking activity of rural health practitioners /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9946278.

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Urquhart, Christine J. "Models of information value based on reliability and risk for clinical decision making." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367546.

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Cross, Anna Elizabeth. "Building a health and environment geographical information system : an evaluation, looking at childhood cancer in Northern England." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/334.

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The aim of this research was to evaluate a relatively young technology, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), in a specific applications environment. The application adopted was that of searching for environmental causes of childhood cancer, in particular that of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL), in Northern England. It is also relevant in terms of the WHO's intention to develop a Health and Environment GIS, and therefore the research aims to satisfy their recommendations for pilot studies. The subject matter of this thesis therefore covers two very high profile topics, which it is believed will mutually benefit from the research carried out. Firstly, very little is known about the aetiology of ALL, and thus any new methodology which is introduced to help analyse sensitive issues of causation is welcomed not only by those in the medical field but also the public. The application was made possible with the provision of detailed cancer data for Northern England and a weak but interesting hypothesis that environmental factors may be an attributable mechanism for causation. Key questions which are asked include; Where are incidences of ALL located? Why are they there? Is there a cluster? and What could be the cause? Secondly a Geographical Information System, in this case the proprietary software package ARC/INFO, was considered an excellent medium for tackling this spatial epidemiological problem. Especially with its capability to store large volumes of diverse data, and its inherent flexibility to deal with spatial information pertaining to health and environmental factors. More importantly the application itself offered a means of evaluating the implementation of a GIS. Establishing the advantages and pitfalls which accompany all stages of 'The GIS Process' and an invaluable documentation of the experiences acquired as an initiator, developer and implementor of this new technology. In addition, this research offers fresh ideas and techniques for improving those areas of the technology which appear to be lacking in these early phases of its development. The problems of spatial analysis in GIS and the provision of useful tools such as 'pattern spotters', 'relationship seekers' and 'error handlers' are discussed as alternative techniques. To ensure an exciting future for GIS technology in application environments the latter and other key areas of research which should be persued are highlighted in this thesis.

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Johnson, Kendra, Kim K. Nguyen, Shimin Zheng, and Robin P. Pendley. "The Relationship between Quality Improvement and Health Information Technology Use in Local Health Departments." UKnowledge, 2013. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/frontiersinphssr/vol2/iss6/2.

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This research examined if there is a relationship between engagement in quality improvement (QI) and health information technology (HIT) for local health departments (LHDs) controlling for workforce, finance, population, and governance structure. This was a cross-sectional study that analyzed data obtained from the Core questions and Module 1 in the NACCHO 2010 Profile of LHDs. Descriptive statistics, bivariate analyses, and logistic regression analyses were conducted. Findings suggest that LHD engagement in QI has a relationship with utilization of HIT including electronic health records, practice management systems, and electronic syndromic surveillance systems. This study provides baseline information about the HIT use of LHDs. LHDs and their system partners (hospitals, federally qualified health centers, and primary care providers) that utilize HIT as part of their QI decision making may have an easier time of using data to support evidence-based decision making and implementing the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 in order to achieve population health for all.

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Kritzinger, Janis. "Exploring the barriers and facilitators to health care services and health care information for deaf people in Worcester." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17907.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2011.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The deaf community face similar access barriers to health care services and information as do other linguistic minority groups. Amongst others, this includes limited access to English communication, misunderstanding of medical terminology, irregular contact with health care professionals of the same language and cultural background and the need to overcome the challenges experienced by using others as interpreters in a health care setting. Barriers to the written and spoken word limit access to health care information as deaf people cannot overhear conversations, have limited access to mass media and present with low literacy rates. The South African Constitution stipulates that every citizen has an equal right to health care services and should not be unfairly discriminated against, on the basis of language. Unfortunately, despite what is written in the Constitution, the reality is that many South Africans are denied equal access or receive compromised access to health care services because of language barriers. The lack of access to interpreters at health care facilities across South Africa inhibits patients from expressing themselves correctly and limits the providers’ professional ability to make a correct diagnosis and provide relevant information. The current study explores the barriers and facilitators to accessing health care services and health care information for people who are deaf in a relatively well-resourced setting. A sample of deaf participants from the National Institute for the Deaf in Worcester were interviewed to gain an understanding of problems experienced with accessing health care services and health care information. Participants reported communication and socio-economic factors as barriers to accessing health care services. The main barrier to accessing health care information was considered to be the inaccessibility of the mass media. Recommendations were made by participants on ways to improve access to health care services and health care information for the deaf population of South Africa. Keywords: Health care acces, Health care information, Deaf, Worcester, Barriers and facilitators to health care services.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die dowe gemeenskap ervaar soortgelyke struikelblokke as ander linguistiese minderheidsgroepe met toegang tot gesondheidsdienste en inligting. Dit sluit onder andere in beperkte toegang tot Engelse kommunikasie, wanbegrip van mediese terminologie, ongereelde kontak met mediese dienspraktisyne van dieselfde taal en kulturele agtergrond, en die uitdaging wat oorkom moet word om ander mense te gebruik as tussenganger en tolk in ’n mediese situasie. Hindernisse met geskrewe- en spreektaal beperk die toegang tot gesondheidsinligting. Dowe mense kan nie na gesprekke luister nie, het beperkte toegang tot massamedia en vertoon oor die algemeen 'n laer geletterdheidsprofiel. Die Suid Afrikaanse Grondwet stipuleer dat elke burger ’n gelyke reg tot gesondheidsdienste het en verbied onregverdige diskriminasie op grond van taal. Ten spyte van die Grondwet is die realiteit dat baie Suid Afrikaners nie gelyke toegang het nie en ’n laer vlak van mediese dienslewering ervaar as gevolg van taalprobleme. Die ontoereikende beskikbaarheid van tolke by gesondheidsfasiliteite reg oor Suid Afrika beperk die vermoë van pasiënte om hulself behoorlik uit te druk. Dit beperk daarom ook die mediese praktisyn se vermoë om ’n korrekte diagnose te maak en relevante inligting rakende die diagnose aan die pasiënt oor te dra. In die huidige studie is die struikelblokke en fasiliteerders vir toegang tot gesondheidsdienste en inligting ondersoek vir dowe mense in ’n relatief goed toegeruste omgewing. ’n Steekproef van dowe deelnemers is by die Nasionale Instituut vir Dowes in Worcester geselekteer. Deur middel van onderhoude is die probleme wat ondervind word met toegang tot gesondheidsdienste en gesondheidsinformasie geïdentifiseer. Deelnemers het kommunikasie en sosio-ekonomiese faktore as struikelblokke tot die toegang van gesondheidsdienste geïdentifiseer. Die grootste struikelblok met toegang tot mediese inligting was die beperkte toegang tot massamedia. Voorstelle is deur die deelnemers gemaak vir die verbetering van die toeganklikheid tot mediese dienslewering en gesondheidsinligting vir die dowe populasie in Suid Afrika.

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Saifi, Khader M. M. Al. "The impact of information technology on hospital management of Gulf Corporation Council public hospitals." Thesis, University of Hull, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272025.

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Information technology (m has become crucial to the functioning of modern hospitals. It includes a range of human elements, infornlation, equipment, knowledge and systems. It is important to hospitals, as these are complex environments including many systems with diversity of functions, sub-systems, and professionals. The adoption of technology can be explained by four general theories: economic, political, social and globalization theory. Based on these theories five sets of reasons can account for the adoption of IT in a hospital environnlent. They are, practical; to solve existing problems, economic/business; to achieve d profit or reduce costs or both, rational; to achieve efficienL1' and effectiveness, social; to respond to pressure from society for political reasons and to increase positive image, and supply driven forces by which IT producers seek to sell their products and services. However, no one theory or set of reasons can by itself explain the precise drive for use of IT because nluch depends on each hospital's needs and surrounding drcunlStances. The purposes of this research are to investigate the extent to which IT is being used in Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) public hospitals, why IT has been adopted, and the impact of IT on hospital managementThe methods used in conducting this research were based lllainly on three established methods for searching and collecting infomlation; a literature review, the surveyor questionnaire, intervie,,'s and case studies. Five case studies in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain were undertaken to cover Gee hospitals and medical centres populations. Most health and medical services in Gee Countries are provided by public hospitals which account for approximately 64% of total hospital provision, employ most medical professionals, mainly expatriates, and contain most patient beds. In Gee hospitals, IT is still in the early stages of implementation. IT has been found to be adopted at a low level due to reasons such as lack of awareness, other priorities in health policy strategies, and the low level of funding allocated. IT can provide hospitals with many benefits, solve many problems and has many inlpacts on human and functional systems, internal power balances and on the social status of hospitals. The benefits are found to be mostly in the areas of processing work. Therefore, the areas which were given priority for IT implementation were medical records, finance, and personnel areas. No significant impacts v"ere found on hospital structure, chain of conlllland, span of control and nUlllber of employees, however, itwas found that IT increased management power, hospitals' social in1age and hospital political power, while there were disagreements about IT impacts on employees' social relations. The evaluation of IT impacts on Gee hospital management shows that the impacts were not at the same level of intensity or direction, for example, sonle impacts ,",'ere positive and some negative; some significant, moderate or nurunlal, some ambiguous or obvious, were some were slow and some fast. Some efforts at Gee States level were made to develop a model of adopting IT but no real results were detected. However, the future role of IT in Gee public hospitals will be increasing perhaps at a slower pace, but two strategic issues should be given proper consideration; first; the role of the education system, research centers, and industrictl foundation, and the second strategy concerns hospital systems and services structure. This later is related to increased privatization of medical services, economic pressure, and changes in governments' employment strategy. The importance of this thesis is to draw the attention of decisionmakers to the role of IT as an efficient managerial tool in some respects and to provide a foundation for future studies

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Ferriere, Andrew C. (Andrew Charles) 1978. "Design of web services and mobile device applications for integrated health information system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84796.

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Gibson-White, Angela. "Using information from electronic patient records for clinical, epidemiological and health services research." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/41839.

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Background: Improving current and future healthcare is heavily reliant on continuous research and the secondary use of data from patients' medical records, particularly from electronic records. Considerable amounts of data are collected during the care and treatment of a patient, and this data can offer many opportunities, not only for supporting and improving individual patient care or making important contributions to research, but also for investigating causes of diseases, establishing the prevalence of risk factors, and identifying populations at risk of adverse outcomes. However, the management of such data poses challenges, which many believe can be mitigated by storing it electronically. The traditional method of storing medical information in a paper-based format has severe limitations, especially concerning the amount of effort needed to extract information. In contrast, data from electronic patient records (EPRs) is much easier to extract and allows healthcare professionals access to the information needed in a timely manner to provide appropriate care to patients and improve the public's health. The UK still faces the hurdle of balancing public interest with individual privacy. There is clearly a benefit regarding the use of EPRs but there is an increasing need for public education in order to be able to reap the maximum benefits they offer. This thesis examines the benefits and impact of EPRs in the contexts of clinical care and epidemiological and health services research. Methods: The methods used for this research project involved reviewing published materials available through electronic searching, grey literature and websites of bodies such as the Department of Health, and the Health and Social Care Information Centre. The use of the main national primary care databases and secondary care databases and their growth over time was also examined. Results: EPRs are extremely beneficial to research and have a significant potential to improve patient overall care. The use of EPRs is growing as technology advances and health systems move from paper to electronic records. Conclusions: The use of EPRs will only be successful when both the public, researchers and healthcare providers agree on their benefits. The use of EPRs will take healthcare to another level, where the accuracy of data entered is of very high quality and standardised, data security is well-controlled, and there is acceptance by the public concerning the use of their data both for providing clinical care and for other secondary uses.

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Hägglund, Maria. "Sharing is Caring : Integrating Health Information Systems to Support Patient-Centred Shared Homecare." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-9527.

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In the light of an ageing society with shrinking economic resources, deinstitutionalization of elderly care is a general trend. As a result, homecare is increasing, and increasingly shared between different health and social care organizations. To provide a holistic overview about the patient care process, i.e. to be patient-centred, shared homecare needs to be integrated. This requires improved support for information sharing and cooperation between different actors, such as care professionals, patients and their relatives. The research objectives of this thesis are therefore to study information and communication needs for patient-centered shared homecare, to explore how integrated information and communication technology (ICT) can support information sharing, and to analyze how current standards for continuity of care and semantic interoperability meet requirements of patient-centered shared homecare. An action research approach, characterized by an iterative cycle, an emphasis on change and close collaboration with practitioners, patients and their relatives, was used. Studying one specific homecare setting closely, intersection points between involved actors and specific needs for information sharing were identified and described as shared information objects. An integration architecture making shared information objects available through integration of existing systems was designed and implemented. Mobile virtual health record (VHR) applications thereby enable a seamless flow of information between involved actors. These applications were tested and validated in the OLD@HOME-project. Moreover, the underlying information model for a shared care plan was mapped against current standards. Some important discrepancies were identified between these results and current standards for continuity of care, stressing the importance of evaluating standardized models against requirements of evolving healthcare contexts. In conclusion, this thesis gives important insights into the needs and requirements of shared homecare, enabling a shift towards patient-centered homecare through mobile access to aggregated information from current feeder systems and documentation at the point of need.

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Gray, C. J. "Electronic health record systems in a centralized computing services environment| critical success factors for implementation." Thesis, Robert Morris University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3628910.

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In 2009 the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was signed into law. As part of ARRA, the HITECH Act set aside $29 billion in Medicare and Medicaid incentives for healthcare organizations. To collect these incentives, healthcare organizations must install an electronic health record (EHR) system and achieve meaningful use. Implementation of an EHR must be completed by 2015 in order to acquire any of the incentives available. Small medical practices consisting of one to five physicians are finding it easier to implement a cloud-based EHR system due to minimal upfront costs and no need for technical capabilities within the medical practice. This study was done using a modified Delphi technique developed by Roy Schmidt to find critical success factors for the implementation of electronic health record systems within a centralized computing services structure. For purposes of this study a centralized computing services structure was considered a cloud or cloud-based environment.

This study found that the top five critical success factors for the implementation were the following: (1) EHR Training – implementing a strong training / education process for EHR users; (2) Usability – practical application of EHR features in a real medical office setting; (3) Reliability – Specifically high levels of redundancy and system availability. If the system is down, patient safety is a risk, and that is an unacceptable norm; (4) Strong clinical representation in the project to ensure workflows, processes and education needs are met; (5) Support services such as deployment / implementation services, help desk, and online support. Of these five factors, four are actually related to usability of the system, and not necessarily strictly based on implementation. This leads us to believe that the success of an implementation is reliant upon user perception based on system usage.

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Beaver, Kinta. "Preferences for information and decision making in women with breast cancer : a follow up study." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295838.

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Tyali, Sinovuyo. "An integrated management system for quality and information security in healthcare." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1006670.

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Health service organizations are increasingly required to deliver quality healthcare services without increasing costs. The adoption of health information technologies can assist these organizations to deliver a quality service; however, this again exposes the health information to threats. The protection of personal health information is critical to ensure the privacy of patients in the care of health service organizations. Therefore both quality and information security are of importance in healthcare. Organisations commonly use management system standards to assist them to improve a particular function (e.g. quality or security) through structured organizational processes to establish, maintain and optimise a management system for the particular function. In the healthcare sector, the ISO 9001, ISO 9004 and IWA 1 standards may be used for the purpose of improving quality management through the establishment of a quality management system. Similarly, the ISO 27001 and ISO 27799 standards may be used to improve information security management through the establishment of an information security management system. However, the concurrent implementation of multiple standards brings confusion and complexity within organisations. A possible solution to the confusion is to introduce an integrated management system that addresses the requirements of multiple management systems. In this research, various standards relevant to the establishment of management systems for quality and security are studied. Additionally, literature on integrated management systems is reviewed to determine a possible approach to establishing an IMS for quality and information security in healthcare. It will be shown that the quality management and information security management standards contain commonalities that an integration approach can be based on. A detailed investigation of these commonalities is done in order to present the final proposal of the IMSQS, the Integrated Management System for Quality and Information Security in healthcare.

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Eriksson-Backa, Kristina. "In sickness and in health [electronic resource] : how information and knowledge are related to health behavior /." Åbo : Åbo Akademis Förlag, 2003. http://bibbild.abo.fi/ediss/2003/ErikssonKristina.pdf.

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Ståhl, Ylva. "Documentation in Child and School Health services : Mapping health information from a biopsychosocial perspective using the ICF-CY." Doctoral thesis, Hälsohögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, HHJ, Avd. för omvårdnad, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-17948.

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The overall aim of this thesis was to analyze whether the documentation in the Child Health Services (CHS) and School Health Services (SHS) reflects a holistic view on health as represented by a bio-psychosocial perspective. The method used based on four studies, all with a descriptive design. Analyzed documents contained lists of health terms recommended to be included in the health record (HR) (I), requested information in health questionnaires (II) and the content of free text notes in health records (HRs) (III). A deductive approach was used on an item-by-item basis (I, II), and for the free text notes in HRs a qualitative content analysis with an inductive approach was chosen (III). Nurses’ and physicians’ views on documentation and electronic HR were analyzed with the help of a quantitative questionnaire design (IV). Results showed that information on developed lists of health terms recommended to be included in an electronic version of the HR (I) could be linked to codes in the ICF-CY. The linked health terms were mainly focused on the body, i.e. a biological perspective on health. Several health terms linked to two or more codes, which indicate a need for more clarity in content descriptions. In the locally produced health questionnaires (Study II), for all age groups, a majority of the linked health items counted only once, and involved a psychosocial perspective on health. These health items were related to communication, psychosomatic symptoms and taking care of one’s health (II). The results in the free text notes in HRs (III) mainly focused on a psychosocial perspective on health and were represented across all age groups, but were unevenly distributed. There was new health information in the free text notes which had not been covered in the standardized part of the HRs. The respective staffs acknowledged that more health information than was documented in the HR was transferred between the CHS and SHS (IV). This information concerned foremost family function. The CHS and SHS had positive opinions regarding the possibilities of an electronic version of the HR. Conclusions: The predominant medical content of lists of health terms was supplemented with health information related to psychosocial health in health questionnaires and in the free text notes in the HR. However, the focus was on the child as a person rather than a child within a family and preschool/school environment, and was strongly related to age groups. More information on children’s health than was recorded was transferred between and within the services. The utility of the ICF-CY as a tool has been confirmed, and indicates challenges to develop a common language to document more on psychosocial health.

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Richards, Suzanne. "Assessment of frail elderly patients in health services research : can informal proxy respondents be used as an alternative source of information when assessing patient satisfaction and health service resource use?" Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369111.

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Greenwood, Heather Louise. "Negotiating and Constructing Place: African Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Experiences Seeking Reproductive Health Information, Services and Support." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36617.

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African immigrant women and refugee women face disproportionate reproductive health risks and adverse outcomes compared with the Canadian population. The diversity of African women and complexity of the migration process suggest the need for contextualized knowledge to better understand these challenges. I sought such knowledge through the use of the theoretical frameworks of place and intersectionality. These frameworks draw attention to the multi-level mixture of social relations in given contexts and how they create opportunities and oppression. The specific purpose of this research was to: a) explore how the reproductive health experiences of African immigrant and refugee women were shaped by the unique context of given places; b) consider how these women actively negotiated and constructed place in their search for reproductive health information, services, and support. A multiple case study was used to explore the reproductive health experiences of African immigrant and refugee women in three different areas of Ottawa, Ontario. These areas provided different local contexts (e.g., history, socioeconomic profile, proximity to downtown). In each area, data was collected through interviews with African immigrant and refugee women, interviews and focus groups with reproductive health service providers, and mapping of available services. In total, 19 immigrant and refugee women and 23 service providers participated in this study. The findings showed that African immigrant and refugee women’s reproductive health experiences were much more complicated than simple interaction with neighbourhood services. Their varied social positions in Canadian society were highly relevant. In addition, social networks based in places outside of the system (e.g., private homes, religious institutions) were environments in which they were comfortable and sought support for their reproductive health needs. Recommendations based on these findings include the need to engage communities and explore the delivery of information and services outside of the traditional places employed by the Canadian health care system.

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Acheampong, Faustina. "Development of Web-based Health Care Services in Swedish County Councils : Strategies, Usage and Challenges." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Informatics, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-13061.

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eHealth has been adopted by many countries across the globe in response to cut down cost and improve the quality of life. Sweden has been engaged in providing web-based health care services for its citizens for the past decade and county councils have the responsibility to develop them. The main aim of this thesis is to present answers to the following research questions:What strategies (formal and informal) guide the development of web-based health care services provided by the Swedish county councils?What barriers exist in relation to the development and usage of web-based health care services provided by the county councils from the viewpoint of their IT leaders?From the perspective of IT leaders in the county councils and in their capacity to develop, manage and monitor their organizations‘ website content, which web-based health care services are mostly accessed by users and what age group utilize the services most?The thesis is an exploratory research conducted through a survey based on a mail questionnaire that was posted to all 21 county councils in Sweden with 18 councils responding. The results show that all county councils have formally adopted the National eHealth Strategy to guide the development of web-based health care services and some have other informal strategies as well. Technological barriers, resistance to use the web-based services and changing business process to integrate ICTs have been identified by IT leaders as major challenges that impede the development of web-based health care services in Swedish county councils. Swedish citizens more frequently access prescription renewal and booking and cancellation of appointments than other available web-based health care services which depicts a trend towards the use of advanced interactive services than basic information seeking, and people in the ages of 46 to 55 have been identified as the frequent users of web-based health care services according to IT leaders from the county councils.

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Jones, Robert J. "An investigation into the development of a computerized information system for NHS physiotherapy services in England : an action research study." Thesis, University of Kent, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324658.

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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Woodward. "Collaborating with Public Libraries to Provide Consumer Health Information Services to 17 Rural Tennessee Counties." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8781.

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Liao, Hsin-Chung. "The Association of Spatial Accessibility to Health Care Services with Health Utilization and Health Status Among People with Disabilities." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1295035743.

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Byrne, Elaine. "A participatory approach to the design of a child-health community-based information system for the care of vulnerable children." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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The existing District Health Information System in South Africa can be described as a facility based Information System, focusing on the clinics and hospitals and not on the community. Consequently, only those who access health services through these facilities are included in the system. Many children do not have access to basic health and social services and consequently, are denied their right to good health. Additionally, they are excluded from the routine Health Information System. Policy and resource decisions made by the District Managers, based on the current health facility information, reinforces the exclusion of these already marginalised children. The premise behind this research is that vulnerability of children can be tackled using two interconnected strategies. The first is through the creation of awareness of the situation of children and the second through mobilising the commitment and action of government and society to address this situation. These strategies can be supported by designing an Information System for action
an Information System that can be used to advocate and influence decisions and policies for the rights of these children
an Information System that includes all children. An interpretive participatory action research approach, using a case study in a rural municipality in South Africa, was adopted for the study of a child-health Community-Based Information System. The context in which the community is placed, as well as the structures which are embedded in it, was examined using Structuration Theory. This theory also influenced the design of the Information System. As the aim of the research is to change the Information System to include vulnerable children, a Critical Social Theoretical and longitudinal perspective was adopted. In particular, concepts from Habermas, such as the creation of a public sphere and the &rsquo
Ideal Speech Situation&rsquo
, informed the methodology chosen and were used to analyse the research undertaken.

Based on the research conducted in this municipality, four main changes to the Health Information System were made. These were: &bull
determination of the community&rsquo
s own indicators
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changes in data collection forms
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creation of forums for analysis and reflection, and
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changes in the information flows for improved feedback. Other practical contributions of the research are the development of local capacities in data collection and analysis, the development of practical guidelines on the design of a child-health Community-Based Information System, and the development of strategies for enabling participation and communication. In line with the action research approach adopted, and the desire to link theory and practice, the research also contributed on a theoretical level. These contributions include extending the use of Structuration Theory, in conjunction with Habermas&rsquo
Critical Social Theory, to the empirical context of South Africa
addressing the gap of Community-Based Information Systems in Information System design
extending the debate on participation and communication in Information Systems to &rsquo
developing&rsquo
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Shivute, Meke Iyaloo. "The use of information and communication technology for health service delivery in Namibia." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1358.

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Thesis (MTech (Information Technology))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2007
Understanding the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the Namibian's health sector is important in the global information society It is not clear how ICT is being deployed to support the delivery of health services to the Namibian patients. Health service providers (HSP) in both private and pUblic health sector must be aware of ICT use patterns because this may influence how they deliver services to their patients in the future. This study thus seeks to investigate how ICT have been used in the delivery of health services to patients in the Khomas and Oshana regions of Namibia. Based on the literature review and data collected from the HSP and patients, a 'generic' health service delivery landscape for Namibia was developed and regional landscapes for the Khomas and Oshana regions were further derived from it. The landscapes depicted health service provision to patients in the different health sectors in Namibia. After mapping the health landscapes primary data was collected from the health service providers (HSP) in private, mission and public health institutions using a questionnaire A second structured questionnaire was administered on the patients A total of 21 and 134 HSP patients respectively, responded to the survey questionnaire. Results from the descriptive analysis indicate a relatively high ICT use by both HSP and patients.

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Carter, Nakia J., and Rick L. Wallace. "Information Revolution: Mustering the Militia: Collaborating with Public Libraries to Provide Consumer Health Information Services to 17 Rural Tennessee Counties." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8769.

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Objective: To enable primarily public libraries and secondarily public health workers and rural hospital staff to be consumer health information providers with the goal of creating a program that could be copied nationally, enabling public library workers to become an important resource in reversing our national health information illiteracy. Setting: Three regions of the state regional public library system covering seventeen counties and two regions of the state public health department system. Participants: Public library staff, public health department staff, and rural hospital staff. Program: East Tennessee State University (ETSU) College of Medicine Library partnered with public libraries to improve the delivery of health information. Four free classes were taught multiple times: “Prescription for Success,” “An Apple a Day,” “PubMed for Public Librarians,” and “From Snake Oil to Penicillin.” Regional public library directors were used to convince their staff of its value and obtain the concurrence of their boards for release time for class attendance. Classes were also developed for the public health workforce and rural hospital staff. Existing classes (with all teaching materials on the National Network of Libraries of Medicine [NN/ LM] Website) were used with the existing public library system. Results: Five-hundred thirty-three students attended the classes. Fifty-two public library workers received MLA’s Consumer Health Information Specialist certification. Thirty-one public libraries have joined NN/LM. All ordered MedlinePlus marketing materials for their libraries from InformationRx.org. Conclusion: This project helped address the public health problem of health information illiteracy by filling the gap the average person has in finding quality health information. A strength of this project is its easy replication. The project used materials that were readily available and put them to use. Any library could replicate this project in its own service area saving time and cost to the library.

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Scandurra, Isabella. "Building Usability into Health Informatics : Development and Evaluation of Information Systems for Shared Homecare." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta universitatis Upsaliensis, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-8403.

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Weng, Chao. "A pilot evaluation study on benefits of a record linkage between a hospital diabetes database and the information systems within the NHS." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2000. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-pilot-evaluation-study-on-benefits-of-a-record-linkage-between-a-hospital-diabetes-database-and-the-information-systems-within-the-nhs(065d944e-29fe-442e-a981-15012719d063).html.

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Mok, Ngo Lui Michelle. "Online health services study of user perceptions of the perceived usefulness of an evolving Web-based health community using Q-methodology and activity theory /." Access electronically, 2008. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/108.

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Van, Pinxteren Myrna. "Tracing ‘paper', discovering people: three ethnographic case studies exploring the use of health information to improve health services in Gugulethu." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Health Sciences, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32367.

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Health information plays a vital role in the larger health system. Over the last twenty-five years, South Africa has developed several health information systems (HISs) that aim to collect high-quality health information to be used to inform clinical decision-making, shape new policies and programmes and strengthen other components of the health system. To date, most research in this area has focused on the production of health information and the technical challenges that appear when developing and implementing HISs. Much less is known about how health information is used in practice. This research explores how both community actors and health systems stakeholders at different levels of the health system gain access to, use and exchange health information, both for their own decisionmaking and practice, but also to address persistent health challenges. This research adopted an ethnographic approach, whereby I conducted extensive qualitative research for a period of 18 months in Gugulethu, an underprivileged peri-urban neighbourhood in Cape Town. Three case studies emerged from this research that provide a lens to analysing the role of health information in South Africa. The use and exchange of health information in the larger health system is inherently complex. Key findings from this research project show that firstly, there is a wide interest among a diverse group of stakeholders, including community representatives and NGOs, to use health information. Secondly, despite the interest for using health information, this data is not always available for a variety of reasons, which encourages stakeholders to develop creative strategies to collect new forms of evidence or to gain access to existing forms of data. Thirdly, adopting new strategies, health actors use a combination of routinely collected, semi-formal, and informal data, often concurrently. Lastly, this research demonstrates that health information is never neutral or value-free, but is produced, used and exchanged within a larger social, cultural and religious context, and is thus shaped by these contexts. This research challenges several assumptions about how health information is used in South Africa, and who can, or should, have access to this information. To answer these questions, it is important to open the health information system (HIS) to a more a diverse group of people actively in order to make available a variety of information that informs health stakeholders' daily work, influences health programmes and provides new perspectives on current health issues. Lastly, to further stimulate the use and exchange of health information for health system strengthening purposes, there is a need to provide a dedicated third space, where establishing new relationships and strengthening existing ones among actors at different levels of the health system is actively encouraged as a way to stimulate further use and sharing of health information.

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Shoopala, Anna-Liisa. "Design of a backend system to integrate health information systems – case study: ministry of health and social services (MoHSS)-Namibia." Master's thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/34011.

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Information systems are the key to institution organization and decision making. In the health care field, there is a lot of data flow, from the patient demographic information (through the electronic medical records), the patient's medication dispersal methods called pharmaceutical data, laboratory data to hospital organization information such bed allocation. Healthcare information system is a system that manages, store, transmit and display healthcare data. Most of the healthcare data in Namibia are unstructured, there is a heterogeneous environment in which different health information systems are distributed in different departments [1][2]. A lot of data is generated but never used in decision-making due to the fragmentation. The integration of these systems would create a flood of big data into a centralized database. With information technology and new generation networks becoming a called for innovations in every day's operations, the adaptations of accessing big data through information applications and systems in an integrated way will facilitate the performances of practical work in health care. The aim of this dissertation is to find a way in which these vertical Health Information System can be integrated into a unified system. A prototype of a back-end system is used to illustrate how the present healthcare systems that are in place with the Ministry of Health and Social Service facilities in Namibia, can be integrated to promote a more unified system usage. The system uses other prototypes of subsystems that represent the current systems to illustrate how they operate and, in the end, how the integration can improve service delivery in the ministry. The proposed system is expected to benefit the ministry in its daily operations as it enables instant authorized access to data without passing through middlemen. It will improve and preserve data integrity by eliminating multiple handling of data through a single data admission point. With one entry point to the systems, manual work will be reduced hence also reducing cost. Generally, it will ensure efficiency and then increase the quality of service provided.

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Mostert-Phipps, Nicolette. "Health information technologies for improved continuity of care: a South African perspective." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1619.

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The fragmented nature of modern health care provision makes it increasingly difficult to achieve continuity of care. This is equally true in the context of the South African healthcare landscape. This results in a strong emphasis on the informational dimension of continuity of care which highlights the importance of the continuity of medical records. Paper-based methods of record keeping are inadequate to support informational continuity of care which leads to an increased interest in electronic methods of record keeping through the adoption of various Health Information Technologies (HITs). This research project investigates the role that various HITs such as Personal Health Records (PHRs), Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), and Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) can play in improving informational continuity of care resulting in the development of a standards-based technological model for the South African healthcare sector. This technological model employs appropriate HITs to address the problem of informational continuity of care in the South African healthcare landscape The benefits that are possible through the adoption of the proposed technological model can only be realized if the proposed HITs are used in a meaningful manner once adopted and implemented. The Delphi method is employed to identify factors that need to be addressed to encourage the adoption and meaningful use of such HITs in the South African healthcare landscape. Lastly, guidelines are formulated to encourage the adoption and meaningful use of HITs in the South African healthcare landscape to improve the continuity of care. The guidelines address both the technological requirements on a high level, as well as the factors that need to be addressed to encourage the adoption and meaningful use of the technological components suggested. These guidelines will play a significant role in raising awareness of the factors that need to be addressed to create an environment conducive to the adoption and meaningful use of appropriate HITs in order to improve the continuity of care in the South African healthcare landscape.

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Wood, Aileen J. "Towards a national library and information services policy in public sector healthcare in the United Kingdom." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275086.

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