A Review of Interoperability Standards in E-health and Imperatives for their Adoption in Africa

Adebesin, Funmi; Foster, Rosemary; Kotzé, Paula; Greunen, Darelle van

doi:10.18489/sacj.v50i1.176

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“…Organizational, legal, ethical, conceptual and technological issues are crucial in allowing mHealth services to become widespread throughout the emerging area and particularly with some imperatives for their adoption in Africa [40].…”

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Could telemedicine enhance traditional medicine practices?

Kamsu-Foguem

Foguem

2014

European Research in Telemedicine / La Recherche Européenne en

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International audienceIn developing countries, telemedicine and mobile health tools promise to enhance access to high-quality healthcare, to support communication of medical information and to assist pharmacovigilance processes. In this article, we provide some arguments on the potential of telemedicine and mobile health (mHealth) applications to improve the delivery of health care in rural African regions. Specifically, the development of mobile telemedicine could help to lay the foundations of a healthcare approach integrating modern medical knowledge with ancient medical practices on the African continent. Access to information and communication technology (ICT), technical devices or portable media in developing countries is increasingly widespread. This can foster a complementary approach to healthcare, namely in African home-based care (AHC), in which the practice of conventional medicine takes place in an environment where belief in traditional medicine is strong. In the AHC, there are community volunteers who provide primary care and link patients with qualified medical personnel working in the nearest clinics and hospitals. These volunteers have contextual knowledge that is at the frontier of modern and traditional medicine, strongly influencing their practical approach to healthcare. The article proposes an interesting holistic look at potential applications of telemedicine in this context and examines in particular therapeutic and preventive education of toxicological aspects of medicinal plants and communication about the potential side effects of these plants

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Could telemedicine enhance traditional medicine practices?

Kamsu-Foguem

Foguem

2014

European Research in Telemedicine / La Recherche Européenne en

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“…Examples of these include CALIBER (Morley et al, 2014), HealthID 1 , epSOS (Fonseca et al, 2015), openEHR 2 , HEOR (Asaria et al, 2016), semantichealthnet (Martinez-Costa et al, 2014). Many of the EHR approaches focussed on the interoperability of EHR (Adebesin et al, 2013;Adenuga et al, 2015;Fonseca et al, 2015;Martinez-Costa et al, 2014), and the use of EHR for the purpose of informed decision making on patient's treatment (Asaria et al, 2016;Lobo et al, 2017;Morley et al, 2014;Zhao and Weng, 2011).…”

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Semantic Integration of Multiple Health Data for Treatment Decision-Making in Low-Resource Settings

Daramola¹,

Moser²

2019

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on E-Health 2019

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Accurate treatment decision-making for disease treatment is important, particularly if it is done in a way that helps to overcome the challenges associated with low resource setting. This include shortage of qualified personnel, infrastructure, ready access to devices, and healthcare by common people. Although real-time gait analysis has been used for the diagnosis of diseases that are associated with gait impairments, the need to improve on the performance of gait-based prediction by augmenting it with other sources of knowledge in a complementary way has been acknowledged. In contrast, to existing approaches, this paper presents the design of a conceptual framework that will enable the semantic integration and use of information from multiple health data sources in order to ensure efficient treatment decision making for gait-related diseases in a low resource setting such as South Africa. The analytical evaluation of the proposed framework suggests that it has sufficient merit and potential to be usable and useful in low-resource settings.

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“…One of the reasons for this is that e-health system implementations are hardly ever coordinated at national level, but driven by donor-funded vertical programs (e.g., HIV/AIDS monitoring and evaluation). These implementations are almost always pilot projects inside one health facility with no evidence of scaling up (Adebesin et al, 2013).…”

Section: Background To African Contextmentioning

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A process for developing an e-health standards selection method artefact using design science research

Adebesin

Kotzé

2017

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The use of design science research (DSR) as a paradigm of choice among information systems (IS) researchers is growing. While there is an apparent increase in the number of DSR artefacts of the method form, very few research publications provide details of the process followed to create such method artefacts in and of itself. Even rarer is the use of the DSR paradigm in e-health research. In this paper, we present the process followed to develop a DSR method artefact, called the standards selection method for e-health interoperability (SMeHI). SMeHI is a generic method that guides the selection of e-health standards to support interoperability between healthcare IS. The development of the method was motivated by the World Health Organisation's (WHO's) call in 2014 for guidance to lower and middle income countries, many of which are African countries, on how to decide on standards to adopt at national level.

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A Review of Interoperability Standards in E-health and Imperatives for their Adoption in Africa

Cited by 37 publications

References 21 publications

Could telemedicine enhance traditional medicine practices?

Could telemedicine enhance traditional medicine practices?

Semantic Integration of Multiple Health Data for Treatment Decision-Making in Low-Resource Settings

A process for developing an e-health standards selection method artefact using design science research

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