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AMIA Annu Symp Proc · Nov 2010
Comprehensive yet scalable health information systems for low resource settings: a collaborative effort in sierra leone.
- Jørn Braa, Andrew S Kanter, Neal Lesh, Ryan Crichton, Bob Jolliffe, Johan Sæbø, Edem Kossi, and Christopher J Seebregts.
- Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway.
- AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2010 Nov 13; 2010: 372-6.
AbstractWe address the problem of how to integrate health information systems in low-income African countries in which technical infrastructure and human resources vary wildly within countries. 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 the case of Sierra Leone and use this case to motivate and illustrate an architecture that allows us to provide 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. Finally, we present a, collaborative implementation of this approach in Sierra Leone.
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