Hospital Management Information Systems
(HospMIS) in Resource-Constrained Environments
Chris Seebregts, PhD
Senior Manager: Biomedical Informatics Research, eHealth Research & Innovation Platform, MRC
Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Executive Director, Jembi
SOUTH AFRICA
Questions
o What is the role of NGOs, like HISP, and other donor-driven initiatives in
the public health domain and their effect on organizational learning and
capacity development in their 'customers';
o What effects have HISP/DHIS had on policy and boundary partners,
such as government, other researchers, practitioners, etc?;
o What are the challenges of data collection and quality at multiple
different levels in public health systems in resource-constrained settings
and how can HospMIS and DHIS contribute to better local data usage,
and;
o What is the relevance of agile techniques (extreme programming etc) to
the development of complex adaptive healthcare information systems;
o what is the role of FOSS as a potentially disruptive innovation in the
context of developing countries and the traditional purchase of
monolithic HospMIS.
Chris Seebregts, HISA 2009
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o Adoption of Standards
o System Failures
o Agile Development, Maturity Modelling, Change Management
and Outcome Mapping
o Action Research
o DHIS
o Open Source
o HISP
o Collaborative Action Network
o Contributions to Development and Poverty Reduction
Chris Seebregts, HISA 2009